----- Original Message ----- From: "Seth Ackerman" <sia at nyc.rr.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 4:29 PM Subject: Re: Walzer on the Left
> Your evidence that the US intervention helped alleviate a famine is: An
> article quoting the Bush administration's claim that a famine was averted,
> alongside quotes from independent aid agencies who disputed the claim.
What was illuminating was the manner in which the claim was disputed: amazingly, the threat of famine has not been removed from Afghanistan into perpetuity.
> There was never going to be an actual famine in Afghanistan unless the US
> caused one with its bombing campaign.
Excuse me? If not for foreign aid, *every* winter in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan would've been accompanied by famine.
-- Luke