Klarinet Archive - Posting 000642.txt from 2001/09
From: Anna Benassi <acb@-----.is> Subj: [kl] Tamim Ansary Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 06:54:39 -0400
David,
You are privileged to call this eloquent man your friend. I read his
article the other day - it was sent to the ListServ of a peace
organization (www.cisv.org) in which my daughter is active. Can you
tell me more about him? Who he is and where he lives? How I could get
in touch with him, even? I would like to translate his article into
Icelandic and try to get it published in the local papers, but first I
think it's appropriate to get his permission if possible. I found it
so profound that I sent it off post-haste to
president@-----. Got an auto-response, of course, but maybe
if others send it as well (and to Congressmen, MPs, and the like) it
might even be read by someone . . . ?
Sorry for the off-topic post, but I would like to close by sharing an
excerpt from another quite stirring article, this one by a Pakistani
physics professor in Islamabad. If anyone would like the full text
he/she may write me privately, and I'll be glad to send it on. It's
quite long, but it's well worth the reading.
BLACK TUESDAY: THE VIEW FROM ISLAMABAD
by Pervez Hoodbhoy
" . . . If the lesson is that America needs to assert its military
might, then
the future will be as grim as can be. Indeed, Secretary Colin Powell,
has promised "more than a single reprisal raid". But against whom? And
to what end? No one doubts that it is ridiculously easy for the US to
unleash carnage. But the bodies of a few thousand dead Afghans will
not
bring peace, or reduce by one bit the chances of a still worse
terrorist
attack.
This not an argument for inaction: Osama and his gang, as well as
other
such gangs, if they can be found, must be brought to justice. But
indiscriminate slaughter can do nothing except add fuel to existing
hatreds. Today, the US is the victim but the carpet-bombing of
Afghanistan will cause it to squander the huge swell of sympathy in
its
favour the world over. Instead, it will create nothing but revulsion
and
promote never-ending tit-for-tat killings."
With best wishes to all,
Anna
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