> But also blame Edward Said, who was smart enough to know that it is
> rare that there is such a thing as a good war or a bad peace, and yet
> all his life chose to yell with those wanting war.
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DeLong on other occasions:
May 12, 1999:
>Brett Knowlton was wrong when he said that weapons are there
>to be used in self-defense: that there are times when it is
>appropriate--moral even--to use weapons not in self-defense, but to >make
>one's adversary change one's mind.
Nov. 16, 2001:
>>how can you say the situation in the
>>Persian Gulf is better now than if the war and embargo hadn't happened?
>
>It was reading Dilip Hiro's _The Longest War_ that led me to this
>judgment. The alternative futures I see if Saddam Hussein had been
>left in undisturbed possession of Kuwait are bleak indeed...
Dec. 6, 2001:
>Al Qaeda and the Taliban are malignant fucks, and there is no
>doubt that their fangs need to be pulled and that they need to be
>removed--even at substantial cost to innocents who just stand in the
>way...
May 14, 2002
>>I'm not going to give a big defense of Truman's foreign policy given >>the
>>bloodiness of the Korean War...
>
>You think it would have been better to have avoided the
>casualties of the war and had an entire peninsula--rather than half
>of it--at the tender mercies of the Great Leader?