Terror Inc.

[Brad DeLong]

>I've seen plenty of people say they'd support a "police
>>>action" but
>>>they never say how it would differ from what the US did.
>>
>>This is just the point that got me in trouble when Rick Perlstein
>>quoted me in the NY Observer saying that it would take considerable
>>force to capture these motherfuckers. You can't just parachute in and
>>arrest thousands of heavily armed, resourceful people who will fight
>>to the death. The crime/police action contingent were never very
>>clear on this.
>
>
>There was an offer from the Taliban to turn over ObL if thwe US 
>produced some evidence. We have no idea whether they were serious, 
>but was worth finding out. That's to start with...

Do you really think that the Taliban needed *evidence* from *us* to 
tell them what Al-Qaeda was up to?

Brad DeLong