I think that the bombing is immoral and destructive. It will not work to eliminate or even reduce terrorism. I was trying to answer your question about the 70,000.
Off to my *:00.
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 10:32:54AM -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
> 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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