Again, Hitch

Bradford DeLong jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu
Fri Nov 30 10:51:47 PST 2001



>Weren't they so bad that the Taliban were seen by many as
>liberators, or at least stabilizers?...
>
>DP

Stabilizers only. After they had castrated Najibullah and thrown acid into the faces of a few unveiled women, I never heard any arguments that the Taliban were "liberators"--only the Hobbesian argument that *any* government is better than *no* government...

Brad DeLong



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