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More importantly, the coalition against terror that effectively isolated the Taliban will likely fall apart at the seams if we bring the war to Iraq. Arab governments could barely subdue their citizens when U.S. warplanes began attacking the Taliban. And Afghanistan??although Muslim—is not even an Arab country. It will be more difficult to build a convincing case against Iraq, especially since most of the Arab world is convinced that the current U.S.-enforced sanctions against Iraq are a campaign to murder Iraqi children...
...focus on its failures. The need for an impartial international institution to manage this crisis is paramount. The road ahead for Afghanistan is rocky, filled with too many pitfalls for any one nation to traverse alone. The U.S. and the U.N. must effectively build a nation from scratch, as Afghanistan??s infrastructure and institutions have been decimated over its many decades...
...must rid the world forever of such attacks,” he said, “and we must put barriers in place to prevent terrorism.” He also spoke of two main focuses within Afghanistan??the humanitarian needs of the people and the political end—for which the U.N., he says, should play a huge role. “All of us in the international community share concerns for the people of Afghanistan,” he said...
...interesting phase when Germs, a study of biological weapons by three New York Times journalists, has just gone through its eighth printing; when backlist books by cultural commentators like Edward Said and Thomas Friedman are headed for re-prints; and when scholar Larry P. Goodson, whose Afghanistan??s Endless War is just out of the University of Washington Press, is being flown around the country like the Nick Hornby of wizened academia...
More importantly, believing in capitalism, religious tolerance, free speech and democracy does not make you a racist. I feel nothing but the deepest empathy for Afghanistan??s starving population. Besides food drops, it is important that we work to establish a successor regime to the Taliban. Muslims are being held hostage by sociopaths who, as President Bush intimated, “blaspheme the name of Allah” and “hijack Islam itself.” The religion of Islam has been cast as a violent, destructive faith by such radical terrorists. Yet the terrorists?...