From: <BBlum6@aol.com>

Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 7:43 AM



BOMBS AND FOOD



Does anyone besides me think that there's

something strange in the extreme for the

United States to be dropping both bombs

and food on the people of Afghanistan at

the same time?



If the Japanese had dropped some nice

packages of teriyaki along with the bombs

at Pearl Harbor, would Americans and the

world have looked more kindly on the

Japanese?

Perhaps if the recent terrorists had dropped

some hot pastrami sandwiches on downtown

Manhattan before their hijacked planes hit the

World Trade Center...But these things work

of course.



Millions of Americans feel a rush of pride and

a warm fuzzy feeling about their country's

magnanimity. The United States, the inventor

and perfecter of modern advertising and

public relations, has done it again.

Bill Blum

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Author, "Killing Hope: US Military and

CIA Interventions Since World War II" and

"Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower"

Portions of the books can be read at:

http://members.aol.com/superogue/homepage.htm