From: John K Clark (jonkc@att.net)
Date: Tue Nov 26 2002 - 00:50:47 MST
"Amara Graps" <amara@amara.com>
>unfortunately in the last years, any good actions of the U.S
>government is lost in the Mud (working against the Kyoto
>agreement [...] in Afghanistan (remember that place?)
>They still would like some help, in order to build roads
>and have clean water.
That's the best example you can think of for foolish American policy?? The
Kyoto Protocol if adopted would cost between 150 to 350 billion dollars
every year (that's Billion with a B) and for all that it would mean the
warming you would see in 2100 would be postponed until 2106. You say you
like clean water, if we spent the same money on that in just 8 years in 2010
every human on earth, not just Afghanistan, would have clean potable water,
this would stop 2 million deaths and prevent a billion illnesses EVERY YEAR.
And yes I remember Afghanistan very well and I remember that if Bush had
been foolish enough to listen to the advise of some members of this list one
year ago the Taliban would still be in power and Osama able to sleep in a
nice cozy warm comfortable bed. That would be doing the Afghanistan
people and the world no favor.
And whatever you think of Bush the man is getting nearly everything he
wants, how is that "botched"?
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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