A new idea and some information @ terrorism

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Friends on Lyme Aid: This was written by my doctor, Dr. Teitelbaum who

treats Chronic Fatigue Immune Deficiency Syndrome and Fibromyalgia ( of which

mine is being caused by Lyme with his help). His message is very potent and

helps us to see life from another perspective.

I, for one would like to suggest another type of strategy: that the worst

thing we could do to the Afghanistan country would be to HELP their people, with

food, medicine, education, asylum to other countries for their own protection,

adoption of orphaned chidden, helping widows and at the same time, " smoke out "

ben Laden! The Bible says that we are to help those in need, if this is the true

state of affairs in Afghanistan as stated below, this would " heap coals of fire "

on ben Laden and the Taliban's heads, because this is exactly what they DO NOT

WANT TO DO, help their people to become strong enough to overthrow their own

tyrants! Just a thought, pass this on if you think it is worthy to share with

others! God Bless America! Let us show what kind of people we really are,

loving, caring and helping to even our enemies, in the midst of our pain, we

still reach out to help others, while still trying to " root out the evil " in

their land, Afghanistan! KC in TX

A Letter on Terrorism

A Letter on Terrorism

Dear friends,

I know that these are trying times for all of us. Instead of an update this week

on Fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome, I hope you don't mind my sharing

some thoughts and feelings on these events. We are all looking for ways to help

heal our country, our planet, and ourselves. Many of us tried to give blood,

only to be turned away (lovingly) by the Red Cross having been told that

donating blood had often flared people's CFS/FMS because of the blood volume

depletion seen in these syndromes. I would like to propose another way that we

can help.

During these times, it is easy, because of our very appropriate anger, to want

to lash out at somebody. This is very normal and, with our vast military might,

would be an easy and tempting thing. Although it might briefly assuage our

anger, it would need to be very carefully directed. Otherwise, we will simply be

repeating the horrific acts that the terrorists have perpetrated on us.

As the terrorists were willing to give their lives for this horrible act, it is

obvious that (albeit from their very warped perspective) they thought they were

doing the right thing. To go in and, as a few commentators have proposed, " bomb

Afghanistan back to the stone ages " will simply create more terrorists and the

unnecessary deaths of more of our loved ones. Those who know me well know that

I'm not the least bit afraid, when necessary, to take drastic action. I simply

choose that the action take us where we want to go. Although I do feel that some

military action will be needed, I think it needs to be done with an

understanding of the perspective of others living on our planet and compassion

for the suffering felt by many thousands of parents who watch their children

starve to death everyday. It is in this way that those all over the world who

love can come together to heal the planet -- instead of fighting with each other

to destroy it. I hope the letter I received below may help in our understanding.

Love and best wishes,

Teitelbaum M.D.

Just received the below forwarded email from my friend Didi, a lovely woman (and

Rabbi's wife) with much heart and soul. It is written by Tamim Ansary, an

Afghani-American writer. Here is his take on Afghanistan and what is going on.

It definitely gives us another perspective. I don't know that a " solution " will

constellate anytime soon, yet the more perspectives we can accept, the more

compassionate our intentions may be.

With compassion and love,

M. Adam Sheck

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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 mean killing

innocent people, people who had nothing to do with this atrocity, but 'we're at

war, we have to accept collateral damage.

What else can we do?' Minutes later I heard some TV pundit discussing whether we

'have the belly to do what must be done.' And I thought about the issues being

raised especially hard because I am from Afghanistan, and even though I've lived

here for 35 years I've never lost track of what's going on there. So I want to

tell anyone who will listen how it all looks from where I'm standing.

I speak as one who hates the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden. There is no doubt in

my mind that these people were responsible for the atrocity in New York. I agree

that something must be done about those monsters.

But the Taliban and Bin Laden are not Afghanistan. They're not even the

government of Afghanistan. The Taliban are a cult of ignorant psychotics who

took over Afghanistan in 1997. Bin Laden is a political criminal with a plan.

When you think Taliban, think Nazis. When you think Bin Laden, think Hitler. And

when you think 'the people of Afghanistan' think 'the Jews in the concentration

camps.'

It's not only that the Afghan people had nothing to do with this atrocity. They

were the first victims of the perpetrators. They would exult if someone would

come in there, take out the Taliban and clear out the rats nest of international

thugs holed up in their country. Some say, why don't the Afghans rise up and

overthrow the Taliban?

The answer is, they're starved, exhausted, hurt, incapacitated, suffering. A few

years ago, the United Nations estimated that there are 500,000 disabled orphans

in Afghanistan--a country with no economy, no food. There are millions of

widows. And the Taliban has been burying these widows alive in mass graves.

The soil is littered with land mines, the farms were all destroyed by the

Soviets. These are a few of the reasons why the Afghan people have not

overthrown the Taliban.

We come now to the question of bombing Afghanistan back to the Stone Age.

Trouble is, that's been done. The Soviets took care of it already. Make the

Afghans suffer? They're already suffering. Level their houses? Done. Turn their

schools into piles of rubble? Done. Eradicate their hospitals? Done. Destroy

their infrastructure? Cut them off from

medicine and health care? Too late. Someone already did all that.

New bombs would only stir the rubble of earlier bombs. Would they at least get

the Taliban? Not likely. In today's Afghanistan, only the Taliban eat, only they

have the means to move around. They'd slip away and hide. Maybe the bombs would

get some of those disabled orphans, they don't move too fast, they don't even

have wheelchairs.

But flying over Kabul and dropping bombs wouldn't really be a strike against the

criminals who did this horrific thing. Actually it would only be making common

cause with the Taliban--by raping once again the people they've been raping all

this time.

So what else is there? What can be done, then? Let me now speak with true fear

and trembling. The only way to get Bin Laden is to go in there with ground

troops. When people speak of 'having the belly to do what needs to be done'

they're thinking in terms of having the belly to kill as many as needed. Having

the belly to overcome any moral qualms about killing innocent people.

Let's pull our heads out of the sand. What's actually on the table is Americans

dying.

And not just because some Americans would die fighting their way through

Afghanistan to Bin Laden's hideout. It's much bigger than that folks.

Because to get any troops to Afghanistan, we'd have to go through Pakistan.

Would they let us? Not likely. The conquest of Pakistan would have to be first.

Will other Muslim nations just stand by? You see where I'm going. We're flirting

with a world war between Islam and the West.

And guess what: that's Bin Laden's program. That's exactly what he wants. That's

why he did this. Read his speeches and statements. It's allright there. He

really believes Islam would beat the west. It might seem ridiculous, but he

figures if he can polarize the world into Islam and the West, he's got a billion

soldiers.

If the west wreaks a holocaust in those lands, that's a billion people with

nothing

left to lose, that's even better from Bin Laden's point of view. He's probably

wrong,

in the end the west would win, whatever that would mean, but the war would last

for years and millions would die, not just theirs but ours. Who has the belly

for that?

Bin Laden does. Anyone else?

Tamim Ansary