Arguments for ground war - forget it

Charles Brown CharlesB at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us
Wed Nov 21 13:23:31 PST 2001


Brad DeLong said:

Thus to the extent that the case for the war was based on what Al-Qaeda was about to do rather than what it had done, that case seems somewhat weaker today than it seemed to me in mid-September...

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CB: War on Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan would not be very likely to stop Al-Qaeda members in the U.S. from carrying out a near term atrocity in the U.S. Would probably make them more determined to carry it out.



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