Proportionate Response?

Submitted by FRANCIS HARTIGAN (United States), Jul 28, 2003 at 16:30

What you postulate as proportionate response is in fact grossly disproportionate. Indeed, our attack on Afghanistan was grossly disproporationate response, albeit largely ineffective in that it neither destroyed al quaida nor denied it the use of the country.

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