Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 21:24:55 -0500 From: C. G. Estabrook <galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
On Sat, 4 May 2002, Brad DeLong wrote:
> Do you really think that the Taliban needed *evidence* from *us* to
> tell them what Al-Qaeda was up to?
Of course not. Their actions were completely outside civilized practice. They should have followed the example we set: whenever any other country asks for one of our international terrorists, we give him up right away, no questions asked, because we know what he's been doing... --CGE
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Brad DeLong wrote:
> >C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> >
> >I'm surprised to see someone of Cole's perspicacity on
> >Iraq write, "My answer with regard to the aftermath of
> >September 11 and defeating al-Qaeda in Afghanistan is,
> >yes, I would have been willing to go fight and die
> >myself to protect my country from another such
> >attack."
> >
> >The Bush administration rejected the Afghan
> >government's offer to discuss the extradition of Osama
> >bin Laden; it wanted its war, against an essentially
> >defenseless country. It was hardly "protect[ing our]
> >country from another such attack."
>
> What was there to "discuss"? The Taliban's choice was between
> immediately arresting Osama bin Laden and his cohorts and turning
> them over to us, or war.
>
> "Discussion" was neither necessary nor appropriate.
>
> --
>
> Yours,
>
> Brad DeLong
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