>Presumably people have seen this bit of propoghanda
>from the NYT:
>http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/12/international/asia/12AFGH.html
>
>Lots of choice quotes, but my favourite is:
>
>"I think they're wimps," said Private Murphy, seated
>on his bunk in Bagram's rapidly growing city of
>American Army tents. "They come out of the caves for a
>split second, hit you as hard as they can and then run
>back in. What kind of fighting is that?"
More beauts:
>Many of the American troops, having survived enemy fire, speak in
>the relieved way of people just returned from a journey along
>death's coastline. The days pulsed with a fierce sun. The nights
>quivered with freezing temperatures.
>
>"All you hear is bullets going over your head and you're yelling,
>`Where's it from? Where's it from?' " said Pvt. Jason Alford, 21, of
>the Bronx. "And then if you figure it out, you call in the B-52's,"
>he continued, adding that "it takes plenty of bombs, because those
>guys got their pride like we got pride, fighting for what they
>believe in, that Taliban stuff, whatever it is."
>
>Back from surreal combat in Afghanistan, the soldiers spent today in
>a makeshift America, getting haircuts, taking showers and reading
>their mail, which was picked up in a decrepit building nicknamed
>Motel 6.
>
>Despite being in a camp ringed by majestic mountains, many soldiers
>could think of little good to say about Afghanistan. "These people
>here must like fighting for fighting's sake because there sure isn't
>anything here worth fighting for," said Pvt. Drew Alan Ramm, 20, of
>Fort Worth. "I have a message for Americans: Don't waste your money
>on a vacation here."
God bless America, man.
Doug