Arguments for ground war - forget it

[Brad DeLong]

>Maybe I should get down on their level,
>but I'm doing my best to keep things polite and abstract

Ah, but things aren't polite and abstract, are they? The view that 
the U.S. has no "legitimate" steps to take to prevent the next 
Al-Qaeda atrocity is hardly polite. And it is certainly not abstract. 
I was on a panel at a conference last month. Gene Steuerle was there. 
His wife was on the Pentagon plane...

Brad DeLong