revisiting the classics

C. G. Estabrook galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
Tue Nov 13 18:15:37 PST 2001


On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Brad DeLong wrote:


> ...I am at one level profoundly upset and distressed by the Bushies'
> refusal to ask Congress for a Declaration of War against "Al-Qaeda,
> the Taliban de facto government of southern Afghanistan, and Others
> Yet Unknown allied with them." It means that the U.S. domestic and
> international security apparatuses will never return to their state as
> of September 10.

Of course to do so would be to admit what is obviously the case but not adverted to -- that the the US is flouting international law, specifically the UN charter, to which it is bound. --CGE



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