http://www.economist.co.uk/agenda/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=840883&CFID=4 39613&CFTOKEN=64862334
Steve Perry at www.cursor.org also wrote about it in his last column but I missed it. In this week's column he says:
"The UN Children’s Fund estimates that 300,000 Afghan children die needless deaths in an average winter, and that as many as 100,000 more will perish this winter thanks to the war for freedom."
Hakki Alacakaptan
|| -----Original Message-----
|| From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
|| [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Carrol Cox
|| How firm -- dependable -- is this description (below) of the situation
|| in Afghanistan. I'm tentatively planning on making it the core of a
|| letter to the local newspaper (letter limit 300 words). And while I'm
|| quite willing to be wrong, in fact believe it is crucial to push
|| strongly enough that one risks being wrong, still I don't want to
|| suggest the possibility of millions of deaths if it isn't going to come
|| even close to that.
||
|| Any comments?
||
|| Carrol
||
|| http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11855
|| The Coming Apocalypse
|| Geov Parrish, WorkingForChange.com
|| November 5, 2001
|| (...)