# Should We Use Bio Weapons On the Taliban? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [October 17, 2001, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-use-bio-weapons-on-the-taliban/88064 "2001-10-17T20:59:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-use-bio-weapons-on-the-taliban/88064/41 "2001-10-18T16:54:31Z")
(Oooh, am I going to get another chance to quote Leonard Cohen?) ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-use-bio-weapons-on-the-taliban/88064/42 "2001-10-18T23:15:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Larry Mudd \* > \*\* It seems more credible to me that the anthrax scare is related to [Larry W. Harris](http://www3.cnn.com/US/9802/19/fbi.arrest.pm/), a [Christian Identity](http://www.religioustolerance.org/cr_ident.htm) white supremacist who was charged with **mail fraud** after procuring _bubonic plague_ bacilli by mail? \*\* Ding! You win the “good memory of the week” award. Only one Senator has received anthrax that we know of – a Democrat, dedicated to upping rural law enforcement, from South Dakota. We’ll see, of course, but if there were a “whodunnit” office pool… ---
**Author:** ![Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df788c/32.png) [@Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ben)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-use-bio-weapons-on-the-taliban/88064/43 "2001-10-19T02:59:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by El\_Kabong \* > \*\*Even though he’s phrased it as involving nukes, or bioweapons, or killing random civilian “ragheads”, it always ends up being the same question. The response has been an overwhelming “No” from those who bother to reply, yet he keeps rewording the question and coming back again. Not sure why he keeps applying the lash to this particular dead equine. \*\* This cycle is precisely what has convinced me that WB is a troll, pure and simple. The full cycle is this: 1. WB suggests we should do something bad to random muslims/arabs/dusky peoples. (Nuke them, insult them, whatever.) In particular, he states that if the Taliban didn’t worry about killing random Americans, we shouldn’t have to worry about killing innocent dusky people. (I say “dusky people” because his bigotry makes no distinction between Afghans in general, Arabs, Muslims, etc.) 2. People patiently explain why that’s a bad idea, typically using the same argument each time. 3. WB declares that the has seen the light, and any further criticism of his original position is met with angry declarations that he no longer harbors any grudge against random dusky people, and is only interested in capturing the terrorists, chopping off their chestnuts, and feeding said chestnuts to the hogs. 4. After the passage of at most a week, WB starts at step 1 again. In effect, he says that sure it was wrong to kill innocent people when the Taliban destroyed the WTC, but surely it’s different now that anthrax has been used. :rolleyes: -Ben ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-use-bio-weapons-on-the-taliban/88064/44 "2001-10-19T03:06:34Z")
**Ben** look very closely at **Bill’s** name… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-use-bio-weapons-on-the-taliban/88064.md?page=2)