On Selective Pacifism & other Oddities

[Bradford DeLong]

>I am skeptical about anything that I read now.  If they are using
>leaderless resistence, ObL may not have known about the details; if he did
>the Taliban may not have known.
>
>I just don't know.  Even if a few Taliban leaders knew, ....
>
>  >
>>  I cannot believe that you believe that the Taliban did not know what
>>  Al-Qaeda was, and what kinds of operations Al-Qaeda was planning.
>>
>
>--
>Michael Perelman

This is called "Plausible Deniability"; it was used by Admiral John 
Poindexter to wall off Ronald Reagan from responsibility for his own 
policies in the 1980s.

It was a contemptible lie when Poindexter used it in the 1980s. It's 
still a contemptible lie. I'm ashamed for you.

Brad DeLong
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