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Sending Food to Afghanistan is Aiding the Enemy
Tuesday, October 02, 2001
St. Petersburg Times Online / Opinion

Letters to the Editors

Re: Food shipments to Afghans resume, Sept. 30.

Sending Food to Afghanistan is Aiding the Enemy

We keep reading about how difficult, if not impossible, it is to beat the Taliban with military action. So the Taliban should be blocked from receiving any aid. President Bush has said that all nations must decide whether they are with us or with the terrorists. No fence-sitting; decide one way or the other.

I am amazed and appalled to read that the United Nations is shipping food into Afghanistan. Is this not aiding the Taliban? The shipments even include wheat that the United States has donated. That means that we, too, are aiding the Taliban, so why are we donating the wheat? The food is supposed to keep the Afghan people from starving, but is anyone so naive as to think that the Taliban will not confiscate it for its troops?

I'm no military strategist, but common sense dictates that you do not feed your enemy. If we are at war, we must win any way we can. If that means starving them into submission, then that's the way to go.

I wonder, is the United Nations with us, or with the terrorists?
-- Andy Tanico, Palm Harbor
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