[lbo-talk] Hersh: How a secret Pentagon program came to Abu Ghraib

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon May 17 10:12:13 PDT 2004


C. G. Estabrook wrote:


>Surely you're not suggesting that, because we might not be able to prove
>Osama bin Laden's responsibility for 9/11 in a court of law (as the head
>of the FBI admitted eight months after the bombing), we therefore get to
>kill thousands of Afghans and Iraqis?

We've been talking about the "police" alternative to killing thousands of Afghans and Iraqis (and I don't know how Iraqis entered into a 9/11 conversation, since no one outside the loony right takes that connection seriously). I've been struck from the first how the advocates of the police solution have absolutely no sense of how that might actually work out in detail - no strategy, no personnel, nothing. It's like you want to offer some alternative to war, but when pressed to articulate it, you flail.

Speaking for myself, I don't want to kill thousands of Afghans or Iraqis. If someone were to kill ObL and/or the Rev Omar, though, I wouldn't shed a tear.

Doug



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