Sudan's ten minutes at UN SC

[Brad De Long]

>Meanwhile the caution of the Taliban government may be a good sign in more
>ways than one. It is reported to have gagged bin Laden, while still
>protecting him. This will increase pressure for the US to operate within
>some sort of emerging international rule of law.

So the Taliban government is now no longer letting bin Laden use its
territories and its resources to plan and support exploding truck bombs
near other people's embassies?

This would seem to be very good news: the Taliban government appears to
have decided to follow one of the longest-established norms of
international law: don't kill other countries' diplomats (or let people in
your country kill other countries' diplomats with your guilty
foreknowledge).

Of course, the Taliban will still shoot you with glee if you try to teach
girls to read...

Brad DeLong