Anti-War Movements

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Oct 17 09:50:20 PDT 2001


Kelley wrote:


>see, if the US government had done everything right, and it still
>turned out that the Taliban wouldn't cooperate to let an
>International Police force get ObL Inc, then no one could whine --
>except people who follow Carrol in arguing that the entire justice
>system is fucked. Would you really find it repulsive if, in the end,
>those police forces had to use guns and various weapons to get these
>guys?

Not sure to whom this was addressed, but if it was to me, then the answer is no, I wouldn't find it repulsive. Bombing by the U.S. is repulsive, but a tightly focused multilateral response, even if it involved heavy weaponry, wouldn't be. I'm not a pacifist.

Doug



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