AW: Hurray?

[Heiko Lehmann <hklehmann...>]

Reyzl,

Germany is going to be a target as much as it is your country; our
government is about sending troops to Afghanistan to help the fight against
terrorism.

I think it´s a mistake to mix up Al Queda with Afghanistan or even the
Taliban. The so-called North Alliance is not going to be a democratic
government. I have a lot of friends in NYC, I know the city well and I
understand your feelings. Be assured that I´m mourning with you. Living
three blocks away from the Berlin Wall on the East side  gave me a certain
idea of danger and angst. Still, I doubt that Afghanistan and its people, as
it is, should be a target of a war against terrorism. Bin Laden is still
alive. I think this war is a wrong answer; politicians might have a problem
to lose their faces right now.

I apologize to the list for this off-topic contribution, it won´t happen
again and was just meant to answer. If we want to continue this topic, let´s
do it off-list.

Heiko.

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[mailto:owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org]Im Auftrag von Reyzl
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Gesendet: Montag, 12. November 2001 14:05
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They don't have to be killed.

They can chase Al Queda out of their country and continue to live.  (But
wait, Al Queda is basically the Taliban leadership.)

They can run away from the fighting fields or just give up.  But if they
give up, they will have to settle for giving up those perilous Taliban
goals, policies, and religious interpretations and be willing to live in a
more pluralistic, pro-democracy society where women have the right to go
work and go to a doctor.  How many will be willing to do that?  Some would
rather die than change.  Well, I think you should leave it up to them as to
what decision they want to make about their lives or their deaths.

We Americans are not going to be their victims again.  If you lived in the
Taliban's favorite target city - New York, and your family's, friends', and
country's lives were literally at stake as ours are, you would also do
whatever is necessary to stop them.  We live and use the main subway
station in Brooklyn, the Atlantic Avenue subway station (11 small blocks
away) that they were going to blast away last year.  A quarter of all NYC
subway riders goes through that station every morning.  Thank God, the FBI
stopped them the day before they were going to blow it up.  This is not a
danger across the ocean to faceless people as it is for you.  Our economy
has been shattered.  Bin Laden, who not only has the means, but has also
carried out every threat he ever made against America, has now openly
threatened to nuke us.  We are not going to let him and his friends come
here and destroy us.  They have already destroyed their own country and
their own people, who are probably going to massacre them the first chance
they get.  Sorry, I can't cry for them.  I bet the 25 million destitute
Afghan people, who have been killed, starved, and oppressed for the last
five years by 50,000 gun-toting fanatics are cheering.  You want to also
deny them their long-awaited cheer?

If your country were the one they were determined to destroy, you wouldn't
talk this way.


Reyzl

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From:  khupe (at) khupe(dot)de [SMTP:khupe (at) khupe(dot)de]
Sent:  Monday, November 12, 2001 2:20 AM
To:  World music from a Jewish slant
Subject:  Hurray?

> The Taliban are about to
> fall.   Hurray, hurray, and God help us all.

PLEASE NO CHEERING ABOUT PEOPLE BEING KILLED ON THIS LIST.

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