Posted on 10/17/2001 12:23:10 PM PDT by Peacerose
Griping About a Gift
10/15/2001
Peter Jennings informed us on Monday, 10/08/2001, that the food and medicine drops are "not popular with everyone" - most particularly the aid groups:
"One other item about these food and medicine drops. They're not popular with everyone. The international relief organization Doctors without Borders, which won the Nobel Peace Prize for relief work, described it today as military propaganda designed to justify the bombing. The Bush Administration points out it also has committed $300 million in other aid. It's a question, ultimately, of getting it there."
On Tuesday night, he followed up:
"Are the U.S. food drops on Afghanistan making matters worse? Some relief agencies say yes."
Oh, PLEASE!!! Frankly, I don't see how things in Afghanistan could be much worse!
Cut to Dan Harris in Islamabad, who outlined how things are being made worse:
"They call it a 'bombs and bread' mission. While attacking the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, U.S. officials have reminded the public as often as possible that they're also attacking hunger: 37,000 individual food rations dropped every night. Today some humanitarian aid workers were saying this effort is little more than propaganda."
Nicolas Detorrente, Doctors Without Borders: "The main concern that we would have with air drops is that the amounts of food delivers so far are insufficient compared to the needs."
Harris: "And some say the U.S. is actually doing more harm than good. The bombing raids have some truck drivers too scared to carry good into the country. Many of the humanitarian workers who stayed behind in Afghanistan are now fleeing for the same reason. The attacks have significantly hampered a large humanitarian effort, and the U.S. food drops simply can't compensate for that. Also, Alex Renton of Oxfam International says while his group appreciates the U.S. food, there's a real danger of dropping packets in a nation riddled with land mines."
Excuse me while I wipe away a tear! These do-gooders have nothing better to do than complain to the media? Let them!
Let's also consider that many Americans don't feel good about American servicemen risking their lives to drop food into a country whose leaders sponsored a horrendous terrorist attack on American soil. Let's consider that we could just drop bombs and be done with it. Let's consider a few facts about dispensing food aid within Afghanistan:
If you were an Afghan truck driver, would you drive your truck to a place where you were likely to be beaten and robbed of your vehicle? And now the French and English aid organizations want to blame the U.S. for disrupting the flow of food? All well and good - but I am offended that ABC World News Tonight feels free to serve us up this slop without noting the obvious.
War has always caused humanitarian catastrophe. As our president has stated, we didn't start this war, but we will finish it. Any Afghans who don't like the food we drop them are not hungry enough. And without question, our military action will, in the end, result in a more appropriate distribution of nutritional and medical aid for the suffering people of Afghanistan.
Shame on Peter Jennings! Shame on ABC's World News Tonight! Let's tell them what we think. Here is the contact information:
ABC
77 West 66th Street
New York, New York 10023
Phone: 212-456-7777
FAX: 212-456-4292
World News Tonight with Peter Jennings
Phone: 212-456-4040
FAX: 212-456-2795
Owner of ABC:
Walt Disney Company
500 South Buena Vista St.
Burbank, CA 91521
Phone: 919-560-1000
Read more here:
Oxfam International
Doctors Without Borders
Operation Bombs and Bread - Experts: Food Airdrops Not an Ideal Way to Deliver Nourishment to the Needy
Afghan Care Packages - U.S. Drops Food In Afghanistan
U.S. Food Aid Causes Ripples in North Afghanistan
US AID Chief Defends Food Airdrops
Doctors Without Borders Denounces U.S. Food Drops
French Docs Attack Food Drops
MRC CyberAlert, 10/09/2001
MRC CyberAlert, 10/10/2001
- Peacerose, 10/15/2001
That Petey-poo and his factotums regurgitate this nonsense is not surprising.
Interious
People who are picky about their food aren't hungry enough!
How 'bout we send 'em ham and eggs... Bacon too!
I bet if they were hungry enough, they'd eat that!!
Jennings needs to haul his sorry ass back to Canada.
"It is no time for the American media to revert to the hysterical, silly, fear-mongering, self-centered, juvenile and ninnyish form that has made them so widely mistrusted and so cordially detested."
---- Michael Kelly, syndicated columnist
What could be more true?
I couldn't believe it! Remember: there is no liberal media bias.
The next story was about the Jerry Falwell comments on Pat Robertson's program. They tarred and feathered Robertson for what Falwell did then asked whether the Fox Family Channel (which airs the 700 Club) was now being boycotted in the manner that Politically Incorrect was. They were implicitly suggesting that it should be boycotted in the guise of a "news story." Regardless of where you stand on the Robertson/Falwell comments, to have a news commentator essentially suggesting a boycott of another media outlet is astonishing to me.
These people are a menace. There is no question about it.
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