--- Seth Ackerman <sethia at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> From Brad DeLong, noted Quaker, on the late Edward
> Said:
>
> > 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.
>
> ---
>
> 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?
>
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