Afghanistan needs food, not guns Ottawa told - Kids are starving

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Kids 'starving' near Canadian base: Think-tank

Warns that new strategy required to win Kandahar

Oct. 25, 2006. 05:57 AM
BRUCE CAMPION-SMITH
OTTAWA BUREAU


OTTAWA—Afghan children are "starving" in a refugee camp 15 minutes down the road from a Canadian military base and there's been no attempt to deliver emergency aid to help them, a frontline researcher says.

"I can't understand why no aid has been delivered," said Norine MacDonald, a Canadian lawyer who heads the Senlis Council, an international policy think-tank that aims to provide analysis, ideas and proposals on foreign policy, security, development and counter-narcotics strategies.

It is funded by the Network of European Foundations, a group of 11 trusts and charities, including the Children's Aid Foundation.

"It's a vicious circle — the military doesn't do aid and the aid (groups) can't get on the ground because of the security situation, so nothing happens. I just don't think that's acceptable," MacDonald said yesterday.

[noonwitch]

1. The women of Afganistan could use some guns, though.

Just a thought-not to make light of starving children, but in that country, the children are starving ultimately due to their backwards civilization, as indicated by their treatment of women.

[MrPrax]

2. So we should kill them? n/t