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more on "Trapped in the War on Terror" by Ian Lustick
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 06:26:03 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: Brock N Meeks <bmeeks () cox net> Date: November 8, 2006 9:04:39 PM EST To: Ted Kircher <tkircher () comcast net> Cc: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: Re: [IP] more on "Trapped in the War on Terror" by Ian Lustick Well, on the point of the economic consequences, I'm in total agreement.When I was covering homeland security I distinctly remember one of the early bin Laden tapes talked about how one of the goals of 9/11 was to bleed the U.S. dry (my phrase) economically. It was, to me at the time, a bracing revelation.
On Nov 8, 2006, at 3:03 PM, Ted Kircher wrote:
These were the exact words in the article - a book review, hence I presume they came directly from Lustick's book. However, while I am not a Middle East language scholar, I tend to agree with Brock's interpretation. Nevertheless, my two main points were the extreme mismatch in the costto al Qaeda for 9/11 compared to the U.S. since then (which will probably reach $300M for each person who died on 9/11), and that the primarily threat to the U.S. in the future is not terrorism but economic, especially from China,if we continue to go-it-alone with pre-emptive military actions. Ted ----- Original Message ----- From: David Farber To: ip () v2 listbox com Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 2:21 PM Subject: [IP] more on "Trapped in the War on Terror" by Ian Lustick Begin forwarded message: From: Brock N Meeks <bmeeks () cox net> Date: November 8, 2006 12:10:36 PM EST To: dave () farber net Subject: Re: [IP] "Trapped in the War on Terror" by Ian Lustick With the proviso that I have not yet read the article mentioned below, I am astounded by the very first quote. Having covered many Islamic warlords and spent a fair amount of time in the Muslim world, I have never, ever, heard one utter such perfectly phrased American cliches. I find it specious that an "al Quaeda security chief" would use the term "took the bait" and "fell into our trap." I wonder if this is an extremely loose translation... or simply a convenient invention. On Nov 8, 2006, at 11:00 AM, David Farber wrote: > > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Ted Kircher <tkircher () comcast net> > Date: November 8, 2006 10:37:53 AM EST > To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> > Subject: "Trapped in the War on Terror" by Ian Lustick > Reply-To: Ted Kircher <tkircher () comcast net> > > <snip>
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