Note to the "ladder of force left"

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Oct 23 14:10:04 PDT 2001


Jacob Segal wrote:


>What I haven't seen is Doug or you explain just how this
>theoretical military action could occur without the killing of innocents.

Killing of innocents can't be avoided under any scenario. The Taliban kill innocents now, an unbroken al Qaeda will kill innocents in the future, a UN force would kill innocents. Our resident revolutionaries would have to concede that a revolution would kill innocents. This is an impossible standard to uphold.

Doug



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