Terror Inc.

kelley at pulpculture.org kelley at pulpculture.org
Mon May 6 17:32:00 PDT 2002


At 07:45 PM 5/6/02 -0400, Seth Ackerman wrote:
>Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> > Dennis Perrin wrote:
> >
> > >But what would be an "appropriate international police response"? I mean,
>if
> > >it meant going in and ridding the Afghans of the Taliban, would that
>upset
> > >you? 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.
>
>This takes the administration's version of events far too much at face
>value.

you haven't understood what Doug said. not to mention that it's written by someone who was plugging away for the need to get rid of the Taliban not too long ago....

kelley



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