Crime not War (Re: Arguments for ground war - forget it)

Alec Ramsdell aramsdell at yahoo.com
Mon Nov 26 12:44:24 PST 2001


--- Brad DeLong <jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> >...terrorist, a crude conceptual and
> >terminological reduction that is rooted in a police
> >mentality...
>
> What should we call September 11 instead of
> "terrorist"? It seems to
> me to be a fine description, not "crude" or
> "reductive" at all...

It's the "war on terrorism" that's crude, like the war on drugs. It's targets are far from definite.

Alec

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