RE: [bodhisangha] Fw: just another little view of the elephant (fwd)

[Guest guest]

Dear Gary

and everyone,

That is a

very good letter from your friend Tamim Ansary … It should be read and

considered very seriously by those who make the “eradication” decisions.

When I analyzed

Osama Bin Laden’s picture… (Omkara / Tim knows how I do that)… it was clear

that OBL is a sociopath / psychopath. (I know what that is…as I was not too far

from that myself.)

We should

have no fear though… OBL has no need to exist…

Tamim talks

about “500,000 disabled orphans” Those children are being manipulated by the

Taliban, the Taliban draws its male members from that group…Those children need

to hear about the real Islam…not the easy and simplistic “Paradise” propaganda

that eventually turns them into living explosives…

In

Buddhism, “Heaven can wait.”

That is the

immortality or “amrita” of the bodhisattva.

In

simplistic pseudo Islamic dogma, “They can’t wait to get to heaven.”

That is death

and mortality through the cunning manipulation of fear and promise.

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Love…Wim.

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We come

now to the question of bombing Afghanistan back to the Stone Age.

Trouble is, that's been done. The Soviets took care of it already.

Make the Afghans suffer? They're already suffering.

Level their houses? Done.

Turn their schools into piles of rubble? Done.

Eradicate their hospitals? Done.

Destroy their infrastructure? Cut them off from medicine and health care?

Too late. Someone already did all that.

New bombs would only stir the rubble of earlier bombs. Would they at least get

the Taliban? Not likely. In today's Afghanistan, only the Taliban eat, only

they have the means to move around. They'd slip away and hide. Maybe the bombs

would get some of those disabled orphans, they don't move too fast, they don't even

have wheelchairs. But flying over Kabul and dropping

bombs wouldn't really be a strike against the criminals who did this horrific

thing.

Actually it would only be making common cause with the Taliban--by raping once

again the people they've been raping all this time. So what else is there? What

can be done, then? Let me now speak with true fear and trembling. The only way

to get Bin Laden is to go in there with ground troops. When people speak of

"having the belly to do what needs to be done" they're thinking in

terms of having the belly to kill as many as needed.

Having the belly to overcome any moral qualms about killing innocent people.

Let's pull our heads out of the sand. What's actually on the table is americans

dying. And not just because some Americans would die fighting their way through

Afghanistan to Bin Laden's hideout. It's much bigger than that folks. Because

to get any troops to Afghanistan, we'd have to go through Pakistan. Would they

let us? Not likely. The conquest of Pakistan would have to be first. Will other

Muslim nations just stand by?

You see where I'm going. We're flirting with a world war between Islam and the

West.

And guess what: that's Bin Laden's program. That's exactly what he wants.

That's why he did this. Read his speeches and statements. It's all right there.

He really believes Islam would beat the west. It might seem ridiculous, but he

figures if he can polarize the world into Islam and the West, he's got a

billion soldiers. If the west wreaks a holocaust in those lands, that's a

billion people with nothing left to lose, that's even better from Bin Laden's

point of view. He's probably wrong, in the end the west would win, whatever

that would mean, but the war would last for years and millions would die, not

just

theirs but ours. Who has the belly for that?

Bin Laden does. Anyone else?

Tamim Ansary

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