Not Brad. But this is a reasonable distortion of what I said. Also hard to dispute as a matter of fact. I knew three people -- not close friends -- who were murdered on 9/11, and two close friends who were very lucky to avoid any injury, and I've been offended by lots of shit on this list. And I'm in the all-negative quadrant of the ideology quiz.
mbs
Liar.
What I wrote was:
>>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.
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>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?"
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>Somehow I don't think so.
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Maybe you misrepresent people's positions because it used to be effective, and you got into bad habits. It's certainly not effective today.
Brad DeLong