Arguments for ground war - forget it

[Gordon Fitch]

> >Of course the war was not legitimate. Of course in a world in which 
> >there are such inequalities of wealth and power, a counterattack was 
> >illegitimate.

Brad DeLong:
> So we should have gone to visit the homes of the dishwashers at 
> Windows on the World killed on September 11, and told their wives, 
> husbands, and children that "Because the United States is a rich and 
> powerful country, it would be illegitimate to take any steps to force 
> the Taliban to hand over those responsible for this atrocity, and 
> illegitimate to take any steps to reduce Al-Qaeda's ability to commit 
> a similar atrocity again?"
> 
> Somehow I don't think so.

That's a curious scene you've set up, with a bunch of
uninvited radicals going to bother people in mourning about
abstract political matters.  

-- Gordon