Arguments for ground war - forget it

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Wed Nov 21 21:33:24 PST 2001



>>Brad DeLong wrote:
>>
>>>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...
>>
>>So what conclusion do you draw from this? Bush made a mistake? That
>>he's a liar and a war criminal? What?
>>
>>Doug
>
>*Somewhat* weaker only. And I don't see any way we can demand that
>the Bushies have known back on 9/15 that there wasn't going to be
>another strike...
>
>Brad DeLong

In this case, the burden of proof falls upon the U.S. government -- that is, it should have provided evidence that Afghanistan organized the 911 attacks _and_ was organizing another imminent strike, since force may be used in self-defense only in the event of an ongoing or imminent attack. -- Yoshie

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