<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 9/11/2002 4:30:25 PM Pacific Daylight Time, delong@econ.Berkeley.EDU writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Nobody has assumed that. People have argued that (a) there would have <BR>
been a second Al Qaeda strike that would have killed even more <BR>
people, and (b) the Taliban government of Afghanistan was worth <BR>
overthrowing even at the cost of perhaps 1000 civilian lives.<BR>
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Brad DeLong<BR>
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Others, like Hitchens, argue that the US was not ruthless enough in their war in Afghanistan. So what is an acceptable ratio 2-1?</FONT></HTML>