Don’t Send Food to Unfriendly Nations

I dread thinking about how WWII might have turned out had the U.S. ensured that the Japanese and German people had plenty of American wheat to eat throughout the war. The Bush administration keeps reminding us that we have nothing against the people in Afghanistan. I assume that includes those who burned the vacant U.S. Embassy in Kabul and those chanting “death to America” on the streets of all those Middle Eastern and Central Asian countries.

The schools in these countries have been turning out thousands of “holy warriors” intent on the destruction of America. Obviously.the tons of wheat we have shipped over there have done absolutely nothing to ease their hatred. Insteadiindex termswith a bottomless horn of plenty.

Don’t Send United States as a friend, not as a foe. To continue to do otherwise is to give aid and comfort to the enemy.

Joshua Saint

Huntington Beach

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In this new kind of war, isn’t it time to consider new kinds of weapons? The Taliban has a great weakness, its inability to provide the basics of life to the people of Afghanistan. As refugees stream toward the borders of Afghanistan, the countries that are now at war against the terrorists harbored by the Taliban have powerful weapons at their disposal: food, shelter, clothing and medicine.

The greatest lesson in recent history is the long-lasting good done by the Marshall Plan. Again and again, the experts tell us conventional weapons are useless in the terrain of Afghanistan. Let’s put a great lesson of history to work. Use the most powerful weapons in the arsenal of a decent, humane people: food, shelter, clothing and medicine.

Don Mac Brown

North Hollywood

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Emancipate Afghan women.

Stefen Malone

West Hollywood