>Undoubtedly so, but only if it's a realistic concern:
>http://www.tnr.com/110501/chait110501.html
With Aaron gone, I guess we need someone else to channel Peretz and Beinart.
The anxieties about famine come from aid workers who are there. The bromides come from neoconservatives in editorial offices in DC.
I love this bit from Chait:
>In fact, the more territory the United States liberates from Taliban
>control, the more food it can deliver to starving Afghans.
Has the military ction "liberated" a square inch of Taliban territory? The war is going disastrously even *on its own terms*.
Doug