> i completely agree!!!!! > i keeping praying and hoping that somehow these same > sentiments would reach our government in MASS AMOUNTS > so, maybe...........just maybe > they would hear.........> > lisa m. russo Actually I heard much the same view on national FOX television from US's ambassador to Iraq. Nice thing about our free press is that we do get to hear most points of view. Sad part is sometimes the very insightful stuff only gets 5% of the press. Mitchell I was just reading that only about 3% of the reports on the Gulf war were critical of the 200,000-250,000 people the US killed (mostly civilians). Now I'm not sure how good these statistics are, but 93+% of the bombs dumped there were conventional, so it's possible. And numbers, numbers, ... 300,000 people die every day! 350,000 people are born every day. 15,000 births/hr. 4 births/sec. 130 million births/year. Amazing. That's just the cycle of life. Nothing unusual. 8-10 million infants and 500,000-600,000 moms die in childbirth every year. How often do we hear about the millions of kids and moms we save every year through improved nutrition, sanitation, and education? When infant birth rates drop 50%, we're saving 4-5 million kids/year. That's a lot! I wish sometimes our news would present a more complete picture of the good & bad sides of things instead of just people's agendas. The various rights groups and non-profits are just as guilty as main stream media of playing fast and loose with numbers, and not giving us a full picture. -----Original Message----- From: owner-dance-tech@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu [mailto:owner-dance-tech@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu]On Behalf Of emili i imma Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 12:03 PM To: daniel sarcasmo pieza; Wolfgang Bley Subject: A view from Afghanistan-A sobering essay forwarded by a UC Berkeley professor . **************************************************************************** ******************** Subject: A view from Afghanistan A sobering essay forwarded by a UC Berkeley professor: Dear Friends, The following was sent to me by my friend Tamim Ansary. Tamim is an Afghani-American writer. He is also one of the most brilliant people I know in this life. When he writes, I read. When he talks, I listen. Here is his take on Afghanistan and the whole mess we are in. -Gary T. Dear Gary and whoever else is on this email thread: I've been hearing a lot of talk about "bombing Afghanistan back to the Stone Age." Ronn Owens, on KGO Talk Radio today, allowed that this would
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