Arguments for ground war - forget it

Max Sawicky sawicky at bellatlantic.net
Wed Nov 21 07:56:00 PST 2001



>Brad portrayed the anti-war protesters, no matter how
>orderly or polite, as personally afflicting the bereaved...
>
>-- Gordon

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.
>>
>
>
>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.
>

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



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