Madinat al-Muslimeen Islamic Message Board
| A few calculations |
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| Kashif |
| 10/09/01 at 14:18:27 |
| "The military answer to the country's crisis so far has taken the form of 37,500 yellow ration packs, dropped from transport planes into regions in which hungry people are believed to live. Each pack contains around 2,200 calories: roughly enough to sustain one person for one day. If you believe, as some commentators do, that this is an impressive or even meaningful operation, I urge you to conduct a simple calculation. The United Nations estimates that there are 7.5m hungry people in Afghanistan. If every ration pack reached a starving person, then one two hundredth of the vulnerable were fed by the humanitarian effort on Sunday. The US department of defence has announced that it possesses a further 2m of these packs, which it might be prepared to drop. If so, they could feed 23% of the starving for one day. " http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,565951,00.html |
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