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GLOBAL POLITICS: Don't Bomb Them With Butter, Don't Bomb Them At All
Tuesday, September 25, 2001
Saturate fats and media disinformation are not good for Afghanistan, argues Fred J.

The article Global securiy Bomb them with butter urges us to think in new ways, but it looks as if it only advocates the usual western way to handle problems: bombing and bribing.

Let's consider the idea, and ignore the fact that entire power infrastructures too would need to be dropped over the Afghan territory to make all the nice electrical media gadgets work.

What media will be included to let the Afghan people have the full load of the proposed alternative? CNN? Time Warner? Should free access to information include porn? Should - for historical reasons - Nixon's "read my lips" be included to teach them to trust western politicians?

Shots from slums and sweatshops in NYC, Manila and Mexico to give them a glance into their bright future? Footage from Chile, Grenada and the like to show that the west principally defends human rights with always the same means: bombing and bribing?

Perhaps people should consider that lacking 'perspectives' may not only be denied by whatever Afghan government, but are a result of years of western politics and economics?

What makes westeners think that the Afghan people desire the same future they are likely to have, a future with all the advantages of capitalist economy, starting with McDonald's, Microsoft and Walmart and not ending with devastated ecologies, privatization of formerly common goods and as a result of the attack on WTC and Pentagon the tightened control of private life?
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Can’t quite follow this bird at all. Is Freddie actually saying we should leave the Afghans alone when we’re finished, because they might prefer the life of a global doormat to having internet access and requiring a license to drive a car? I’ve already read the perspective of the world average Afghan.

“Life is already miserable. Leaving my home to escape a war is not a big thing.”

Dan