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Bomb Them With Hope

 

 

September 23rd on NBC it was reported that 81% of

Americans want

restraint. Perhaps this suggestion is what they've

been waiting for:

 

A military response, particularly an attack on

Afghanistan, is exactly

what the terrorists want. It will strengthen and swell

their small but

fanatical ranks. The real criminals will likely escape

while the

innocent suffer. Instead, why not bomb Afghanistan

with butter, with rice,

bread, clothing and medicine? It would cost less than

conventional arms,

pose no threat of US casualties and just might get the

populace

thinking that maybe the Taliban don't have the

answers. After three years of

drought and with starvation looming, let's offer the

Afghani people the

vision of a new future.

 

Let's bomb them with information, video players and

cassettes of world

leaders, particularly Islamic leaders, condemning

terrorists and

terrorism. Carpet the country with magazines and

newspapers showing the

horrors of terrorism committed by their " guest. " Blitz

them with laptop

computers and DVD players filled with a perspective

denied them by their

government. Saturation bombing with hope will mean

that some of it gets

through. Send so much that the Taliban can't collect

and hide it all.

 

The Taliban are telling their people to prepare for

Jihad. Instead,

let's give the Afghani people their first good meal in

years. Seeing your

family fully fed and the prospect of food and a stable

future is a

powerful deterrent to martyrdom. All we ask in return

is that they, as a

people, enter the civilized world, which means handing

over any

terrorists in their midst. Our response to these

atrocities needs to be

something different, unexpected, that addresses the

root of the problem. Let's

take away the well of despair, ignorance and brutality

from which the

Osama bin Ladens of the world water their gardens of

terror.

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Dear Mr. President and Mr. Vice President,

We the undersigned are writing to you to express our

profound sadness

at the events of September 11th, and to plead with you

and those making

the very difficult decisions which have to be made at

this time for a

calm and non-retaliatory response.

 

We have all been deeply affected by this tragedy and

our hearts and

sympathies go to those who died and to the loved ones

they left behind. In

the wake of this event we feel shock and sadness.

Emotions run very

high. It is human to seek revenge, but retaliating

with anger and violence

only breeds more violence and ensures that future

generations will live

in fear, mistrust and suffering.

 

We urge you and our fellow citizens to remember that

vengeance offers

no relief, that retaliation can never facilitate

healing and that to

meet violence with violence breeds more rage and more

senseless deaths.

 

We believe it is our duty as a civilized nation to

rise above the

desire for retaliation and to find a non-violent way

of dealing with this

tragedy. We do not ask that we ignore what has

happened or that those

responsible not be held fully accountable, but we want

to say to the world

that further violence that endangers more innocent

people will not

resolve this situation.

 

This is an opportunity to show the world that

leadership is earned, not

imposed through violence and intimidation. We ask you

to give us hope

for a future where good can prevail over evil and

where violence has no

place. Let's build bridges of respect and

understanding amongst all

people, ensuring that the tragedy of September 11th

and similar tragedies

around the world never happen again.

 

1. Premshakti, West Palm beach Fl. 33409

2. Sri Ram, West Palm Beach Fl 33405

3. Patricia Plasket, Lake Park, FL 33403

4. James Carvin, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410

5. Michael Ricciardi, Seattle, WA 98122

6. Paula Belcher, Seattle, WA 98115