[Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace] Fwd: Interview with Noam Chomsky by Radio B92, Belgrade

[Margaret E. Kosal]

afterrnoon' all -

The following snippet is from an interview transcript which was shared on 
the peace-list a couple weeks ago.

i would like more information w/r/t the US demand he mentions, specifically 
the US demand that "Pakistan terminate the food and other supplies that are 
keeping at least some of the starving and suffering
people of Afghanistan alive."

Does anyone know in what form this demand came?  and from 
who?  Military?  State Department?  G.W.?
And the context in which the demand was made?

Trying to get all evidence in order.

Warm regards,
Margaret
kosal at s.scs.uiuc.edu

It is better to live for one day as a tiger
than for a thousand years as a sheep.
       (Tibetan Buddhist proverb)

At 10:44 9/28/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>>Q: After the first shock, came fear of what the U.S. answer is going to
>>be. Are you afraid, too?
>>
>>Every sane person should be afraid of the likely reaction -- the one that
>>has already been announced, the one that probably answers Bin Laden's
>>prayers. It is highly likely to escalate the cycle of violence, in the
>>familiar way, but in this case on a far greater scale.
>>
>>The U.S. has already demanded that Pakistan terminate the food and other
>>supplies that are keeping at least some of the starving and suffering
>>people of Afghanistan alive. If that demand is implemented, unknown
>>numbers of people who have not the remotest connection to terrorism will
>>die, possibly millions.  Let me repeat: the U.S. has demanded that
>>Pakistan kill possibly millions of people who are themselves victims of
>>the Taliban.  This has nothing to do even with revenge. It is at a far
>>lower moral level even than that. The significance is heightened by the
>>fact that this is mentioned in passing, with no comment, and probably
>>will hardly be noticed.