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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?...
Like it or not, bin Laden and the Taliban are in power largely as the result of support of the U.S. during Afghanistan??s war with the Soviet Union (back when their militarism was “freedom fighting” and not its more current and accurate name “terrorism”). The U.S. funded them, built the very camps that bin Laden now uses to train terrorists and supplied them with weapons all in the name of anti-Communism. Now the U.S. is supporting the Northern Alliance, another group of hardened...
Because it takes months for a book to go to press, it is entirely coincidence that Junger’s last chapter, the most recent essay, narrates his time last year with Ahmed Shah Massoud, then the leader of Afghanistan??s rebel Northern Alliance. Last year, when Junger spent a month with Massoud in the mountains of the Afghanistan, Massoud was an unknown in the western world—despite orchestrating some of the most brilliant warfare waged in the 1980s and 1990s and holding off first the Soviet Army and then the Taliban regime for years. Many...
...meager, if it existed at all. And the probability of the U.S. responding to similar events in the future seems faint and unlikely. For we remember that the Taliban—which now must be destroyed to bring peace to the world and dignity to the suffering people of Afghanistan??was, but a month ago, far from administrators’ minds. We remember that Bush campaigned on an explicit platform of not venturing into foreign lands to spread and protect the values that Americans hold dear...
...Bush argued against state-building and instead advocated only those military actions that promote our national interest. But in this case, creating a stable Afghanistan coincides exactly with our national interest. As the U.S. envisions the downfall of the Taliban, it must also accept the responsibility of ensuring that Afghanistan??s future rulers are not equally oppressive and friendly to terrorists. Although it is premature to determine precisely how this goal will be accomplished or who will be involved in shaping the future of Afghanistan, these questions must be a central part of our planning...