On Selective Pacifism & other Oddities

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Nov 29 07:32:54 PST 2001


Michael Perelman wrote:


>Doug, I am not an expert. We got ObL out of Sudan. What about the story
>that Sudan offered to give him up. Also, if the terrorists (70,000) are
>scattered around the world, bombing seems like an ineffective means of
>stopping them.
>
>I don't pretend to have the answers. My only certainty is that we are
>given very shabby information.

We're back where we were a couple of months ago: an answer like this is a political dead-end. To an American nonleftist audience, you can't say "no bombing" and then fall silent when the hard questions start. Not that answers come trippingly off my tongue, but this is a serious problem.

Doug



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