----- Original Message ----- From: "Bradford DeLong" <jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 10:29 AM Subject: Re: Ah. Another malignant fuck...
> >Besides, the final returns are never in. A sustained campaign
> >of successful large-scale terrorist attacks on the United
> >States, spaced two or three years apart, might prove "successful"
> >from certain points of view after ten or twenty years. If
> >we're fortunate we won't find out the hard way.
> >
> >-- Gordon
>
> But isn't such a sustained campaign of terrorism exactly what the
> overthrow of the Taliban (and probable future campaigns in Somalia
> and Sudan) is supposed to prevent? Isn't the point of it all to put
> governments of nation-states on notice that it is too dangerous for
> them to allow wholesale terrorist groups to use your country as a
> base?
>
>
> Brad DeLong
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Did Timothy McVeigh need a base?
Ian