Word: afghanistanã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...used language in recent days that implicitly compares Israel’s struggle against terrorism to the United State’s own ongoing campaign. Although the two situations cannot be directly compared—the political situation in Palestine is far more complex than the one in Afghanistan??we applaud the administration’s unambiguous support of Israel in this matter...
...forum organized by the National Organization for Women (NOW) on Saturday night, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan??s U.S. representative spoke of her own lifelong struggle against the Taliban, as well as her reservations about the ability of the Northern Alliance to affect positive change for Afghan women...
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...