And now the attacks on Kabul

Brad DeLong jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu
Tue Sep 11 18:10:59 PDT 2001



>and where else...?
>
>But as James Rubin has just said on BBC, the USA can no longer think
>it is immune from the outside world, (militarily, politically, or
>economically)
>
>
>And Tony Blair, has just loyally stepped into the vacuum while Bush
>is preoccupied, making strong statements, telephoning Schroeder and
>Jospin, and Putin. Probably approving the attacks on Kabul, but with
>a sub-agenda, how to play off the USA and Europe, and contain the
>USA's wilder excesses. There will be a price for this.
>
>Chris Burford
>
>London

Ahem...

The attack on Kabul is supposed to be being undertaken by the Taliban's *domestic* enemies...

Brad DeLong



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