Afghanistan
Sir,—lf I point out to Bill Barry. (November 8) that his reply to my letter is as predictable as mine to his, we can abandon this pointless debating technique and get on with presenting our cases. Of the two authorities on Afghanistan and Russia whom he cites,. Anthony > Paul is unknown to me, but if Hedrick Smith is the author of “The Russians,” he is ho authority on the Soviet Union, merely a profitably venal propagandist. Those whom Bill Barry calls-“the Afghan people” are bandits, brigands. and terrorists in the service of the United States. If he is going to quote the “bird-bombs” story from Saturday’s “Foreign Correspondent” programme, his case is pitifully weak. This Australian propaganda film did not show any of the “bird-bombs” being dropped, or any Afghan children being maimed by them, we were merely told that these things happened. I am not so credulous.—Yours, etc./. M. CREEL. V > November 9, 1983.
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