Air Support to Ground Troops Re: Arguments for ground war

Jacob Segal jpsegal at rcn.com
Fri Nov 2 16:08:24 PST 2001


on 11/3/01 7:34 AM, Carrol Cox at cbcox at ilstu.edu wrote:


>
>
> Doug Henwood wrote:
>>
>> So what should we do? Say nothing? Make no demands at all? Just say
>> "No war!" and nothing more? Await the legitimation crisis when the
>> war goes badly? I'm confused.
>>
>
> Do you have the slightest idea how "we" could change this? I really
> don't have any idea. If you have an idea that could be implemented in
> the next 14 days by 3 or 4 hundred people to save millions of lives, you
> rather owe it to the world to let us know. And if you don't, why are you
> pestering Yoshie? She clearly doesn't have any such suggestion either.
>
> Carrol

Question for Carrol,

Playing Devil's advocate: Is it not possible that the elimination of bin Laden and his network might reduce terrorism to some degree, assuming bin Laden is the organizational and financial hub of much of this activity?

Just asking!

Jacob Segal



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