U.S. Bombing Afghanistan, Sudan

[Brad De Long]

>Max Sawicky wrote:
>
>>We're at war with Afghanistan and Sudan.
>>The U.S. is bombing what it says are
>>terrorist bases, as we speak.
>
>There's nothing like one of these moments to experience the U.S. media at
>is most appalling. Andrea Mitchell (Mrs Alan Greenspan) shares a little
>secret with us - her intelligence sources say that large quantities of
>poison gas precursors were in the bombed camps. Mitchell did at least say
>that the "terrorists" had Stinger missiles left over from when they were
>our friends fighting the Soviets.

Yet another great Cold War moment...

Brad DeLong

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