Berube, Part Two

[Brad DeLong]

>First, this was not c case of a sovereign nation
>attacking the U.S.  What justified the bombing of
>Afghanistan was the political, and not altogether
>obvious, conclusion that the Taliban was repsonsible
>for the 9-11 attack.  Now, I may have been snoozing at
>the time, but my recollection is that the "left" was
>asking for an explicit connect-the-dots on this very
>point.

Well, what more would you require? If the Taliban were not 
responsible, wouldn't they have handed over Osama bin Laden and the 
other responsible parties immediately after 9-11?

Brad DeLong