"C. G. Estabrook" wrote:
>
> 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
If it is an act of war, then the deaths were collateral damage and not criminal. If it was not an act of war but merely a private incursion, then we are back to U.S. military chasing Pancho Villa around, except slaughtering more bystanders this time.
Was anti-Germanism (by Germans or others) in the 1930s the anti-imperialism of fools?
Carrol