Shades of the Berlin Air lift..
a good idea. Yes, it could work. our enemy is not the afganistani people.

today's magazine section of the NY times, Caleb Carr suggest the problem is modern day luddites. or as was sung in US, after WWI, "How do you keep them down on the farm, after they have seen Paree?"

The Taliban wants to turn back the hands of time. they can't but, they are willing to die trying. It might be, with information, the people of afganistan, will chose not to be part of the modern world. (China made that decision once, and so did Japan) we can't be sure, given choices, they will chose the modern way.


my other obsession