[lbo-talk] Why do they hate Moore?

Luke Weiger lweiger at umich.edu
Fri Jul 2 22:09:35 PDT 2004


C.G. Estabrook wrote:


> We get to kill people if we suspect their government is not sincere?
> Robert Mueller, head of the FBI, testifying the summer after 9/11, could
> not say that he "_knew_ Al Qaeda was responsible."

Where's the quotation?


> The administration was certainly willing to starve many people in
> Afghanistan to death, as the UN recognized.

What's your evidence, apart from the warnings of some aid workers?


> Part of the reason it didn't happen was the world-wide outcry against the
vicious plans of the US.

Again, where's your evidence? I'll admit that I was initially worried about possible mass starvation in Afghanistan--but folks like Jon Chait, who predicted that the invasion would actually help matters, proved to be correct.

-- Luke



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