This is a reprint from A Geocities Blog I had in 2001. I happened to see this to give you some perspective to now. I was surprised to read this again

 

Monday October 29th 2001 10:42 pm pst USA

WILL THE AFGHAN INNOCENTS SURVIVE THIS WINTER?

Yes, two world trade center buildings and thousands of innocent people are gone. Yes, 15,000 children lost one or both parents. Yes, there is anthrax at the Capital Building, The White House, The Supreme Court, The Department of State, multiple post offices etc. and now even a hospital worker and a private citizen have respiratory anthrax and may not live.

However, if the US allows 3 to 7 million mostly innocent Afghan people to starve to death this winter our good name throughout the world will be crap. We will become a sick joke to the rest of the world.

Yes. We need to show the world we aren't going to take this kind of attack from anyone without a major retaliation. However, allowing 3 to 7 million Afghans to freeze or starve to death will just make everyone on earth except for America's foremost hawks completely fed up with the US and its policies. We must not let this humanitarian catastrophe take place. If we do it will harm and kill mostly the women, the children, the human shields of the Taliban.

Twenty years from now you will have 1,000,000 Bin Ladens who were sons and nephews and friends of those who starve to death in the cold Afghan winter. We in the Western Christian world must think carefully of the future. Can we survive 1,000,000 more Bin Ladens 20 years from now? The whole world is watching. This isn't just High Noon in the Wild West. This is much different than anything any of us has had to face before.