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...number of accidents have already been confirmed. And the fact that the Taliban has moved much of its weaponry and personnel into heavily populated neighborhoods raises the potential for more. While there are no signs yet of such incidents weakening allied resolve, they are reportedly generating considerable anger among the anti-Taliban elements the U.S. is wooing in the south...
...demand has been echoed at the opposite end of the region's political spectrum, by the Northern Alliance. And there is little doubt that if bombs are falling on Afghanistan during the Muslim holy month that begins on November 17, there will be a sharp uptick in anti-American anger around the Muslim world...
...terror of Sept. 11 is both natural and justified. But there has been a disturbing tendency in the past several weeks to avoid any discussion of the direction of America’s foreign policy before this generation lost its innocence. Any attempt to explore the source of anger that drives many in the Arab world to condemn our military action as “terror” is immediately decried as a perverse attempt to justify the acts of those fanatical, suicidal pilots...
...lesser degree, many other Arabs share this hate for Americans. It can be seen every time President Bush is burned in effigy, every time thousands of people take to the streets to support Osama bin Laden or to protest the bombing in Afghanistan. This widespread anger stems from several sources. The sanctions on Iraq since the Gulf War are seen as a crime causing the death of countless Iraqi children, who themselves bore no responsibility for Saddam Hussein’s evil actions or his refusal to trade oil for food. But whether we like it or not, America?...
...searching for the source of this anger, this hatred towards the U.S., is far from an attempt to justify the unjustifiable. It is instead an attempt to probe the reasons that people are willing to sacrifice themselves to attack the U.S., and the reasons why millions of people across the world now oppose America’s response to this act of war. The distinction is a fine one, but it must be made. It is tempting to write off these acts to psychopathic killers who hate everyone and everything. And surely no sane person would pilot an airliner into...