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Quotation of the Day for November 25, 2010"We had to destroy them to make them safe." - Shah Muhammed Ahmadi, Arghandab District Governor, describing the destruction of six Afghan villages, part of the current US policy of destroying houses containing, or believed to be containing, booby-traps and I.E.D.s. Quoted in "NATO Is Razing Booby-Trapped Afghan Homes", New York Times, 2010-11-17. [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/17/world/asia/17afghan.html] [The submitter notes: ...those of us old enough to remember the Vietnam War are immediately reminded of the notorious 1968 remark by briefing officer Major Booris: "We had to destroy Ben Tre in order to save it."] Submitted by: Chas Simmons Nov. 21, 2010 |
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