al-Qaeda and Taliban

Charles Jannuzi jannuzi at edu00.f-edu.fukui-u.ac.jp
Wed Mar 20 20:59:28 PST 2002


Chip:
>Charles, you have been in this thread for several days.

Yes, and is it too much to ask that you read some of it before you butt in? Afterall, it wasn't you who did most of the work here.


>Some of my comments are directed at you, some at Hakki, >some at both of
you. It's a thread. There were others involved in it too, so were you cruising for a bruising or something?

Can't you start and sustain a thread yourself for once instead of making me wish I were dead?


> Since I am apparently not supposed to cite any of my >work or the work of
others when
>addressing you, I can only claim that there are many books >and articles on
>the subject.

All I'm asking is that you acknowledge what has been discussed in a thread before you try to come off as the know-it-all.


>You have misunderstood the use of the term. Conspiracies
>happen all the time, but the broad contours of history are >not shaped by
conspiracies.

I have misunderstood nothing. My position is I'm hesitant to generalize based on what I know. Stop with the lectures.


> This is what the schools you cite teach. There are dozens >of articles
that have discussed this for several years--before >the bombing.

Yes, Chip, we've been over this a hundred times before. But what does this have to do with profiling the 9-11 perps and figuring out how they got into the US? What does it have to do with trying to get a grasp of the differences across the various Taliban and Al Qaeda factions?


>posted on the PRA web page which you claim are stupid and a parody.

No, I said they were so stupid they were prime for parody.


>But I am not supposed to cite anything, so the conversation >is reduced to
unsupported
>opinions.

That's rich. Hardly anyone cites more sources on this list than Hakki or me. Your problem is you don't know how to converse. All your stuff is support with no interesting assertions.

>So, Charles, you want to argue that the above is not a >nasty personal attack?

Do I need to cite someone to make the argument?

Charles J



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