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...witty fabrication of the future that lifts his work from the rash of century-spanning novels that have followed Gabriel Garcia M?rquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. Bhatt's daughter, for example, becomes a pilot for the Indian army and ends up battling a 21st century Pakistan-Saudi Arabian alliance...
Picnics, swimming, basketball, tricycle races--sounds like summer camp. Actually, these are some of the activities of the sailors and soldiers on the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt, located in the Arabian Sea, who were given their first day off in 43 days. See our photo essay of what the sailors fondly call a "steel-beach picnic" at time.com/roosevelt
...establish new air bases inside this zone, which can be used not only to resupply the Alliance and any expanded U.S. troop presence, but also to ratchet up the air war. To reach the battle zone right now, fighter planes have to fly over Pakistan from carriers in the Arabian sea - a distance that limits them to a single sortie each day and with a lighter bomb load necessitated by the heavier fuel load. Basing the same fighters at bases around Mazar would allow them to fly three sorties a day and carry a heavier payload to the Taliban frontlines...
...north and west would be endanger of being cut off. It would also potentially give the U.S. access to two major airfields inside Afghanistan, allowing it to base strike aircraft within ten minutes flying time of Taliban targets - U.S. fighters currently have to fly off carriers in the Arabian sea and refuel over Pakistan before reaching their targets...
...even greater significance are the city's two air strips, which once they're repaired could make a huge difference to the U.S. military campaign - right now planes have to fly from the Arabian sea across Pakistan, often having to refuel before they reach their targets. But flying from Mazar would put U.S. warplanes ten minutes away from their targets. Also, it would open the gates for massive food aid distribution, which is desperately needed on the plain to the south of the city where hundreds of thousands of people had depended on food aid even before the fighting began...