stop, look and listen

stop, look, and listen before you cross the street; use your eyes, use your ears, and then you use your feet. My parents taught me this rhyme when I was very small, and at the risk of sounding like one of those $13.95 gift books at Borders, I pass it along to you. It’s as true today as it ever was, except we’re not just crossing the street: we’re crossing an ocean and we’re doing it with weapons. I want you to know what we did — what we did — in Afghanistan first. You should first read what our government has written, in this 2000 report on human rights practices. And then you want to go back a few years, and read about communism and civil war in Afghanistan. Perhaps you want to go even further back, but you complain that...