Word: aimlessness
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...Afghanistan - the war that President-elect Barack Obama pledged to fight and win - has become an aimless absurdity. It began with a specific target. Afghanistan was where Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda lived, harbored by the Islamic extremist Taliban government. But the enemy escaped into Pakistan, and for the past seven years, Afghanistan has been a slow bleed against an array of mostly indigenous narco-jihadi-tribal guerrilla forces that we continue to call the "Taliban." These ragtag bands are funded by opium profits and led by assorted religious extremists and druglords, many of whom have safe havens...
...Afghanistan - the war that President-elect Barack Obama pledged to fight and win - has become an aimless absurdity. It began with a specific target. Afghanistan was where Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda lived, harbored by the Islamic extremist Taliban government. But the enemy escaped into Pakistan, and for the past seven years, Afghanistan has been a slow bleed against an array of mostly indigenous narco-jihadi-tribal guerrilla forces that we continue to call the "Taliban." These ragtag bands are funded by opium profits and led by assorted religious extremists and druglords, many of whom have safe havens...
...deliver the blunt message to the leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan that we will no longer tolerate their complicity in the deaths of Americans and our allies, a slaughter that began on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, and continues to this day. Obama will soon own this aimless war if he does not somehow change that dynamic...
...Unless Harvard is content to allow its liberal tradition to become either merely a ticket for some to wealth and fame, or a babysitter for the aimless academic and social pursuits of young adulthood, it must seriously reconsider its educational role...
...just lobbyist row on Washington's K Street that is resounding these days with recriminations over the aimless failure of a grand political party. In France last weekend, the once venerable Socialist Party gathered in the northeastern city of Reims, the world capital of Champagne, in what they'd hoped would be the beginning of their counter-offensive to recapture power from President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservatives in 2012 elections. (See photos of the Sarkozys in London...