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...their persuasive power and politics becomes a sideshow, when soldiers must hit the ground and fight and everyone else braces for something terrible. This war turned last Thursday night. Throughout the day, combat helicopters had carried U.S. special-operations troops ashore from the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk, anchored in the Arabian Sea off the southern coast of Pakistan. The forces choppered over miles of desert terrain to an airstrip at Dalbandin, close to Pakistan's secret underground nuclear-test site and just south of the Afghan border. There they prepared to be delivered into Taliban-controlled territory in Afghanistan to begin...
...following The Little Mermaid with a trio of features which dazzled audiences by combining traditional hand-drawn animation with computer graphics. Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King had the sharp brilliance of The Little Mermaid and then some. Computers made a sky full of stars, an Arabian cityscape and a wildebeest stampede all the more breathtaking. To top it all off, these three films were wildly successful at the box office and in merchandising, boosting Disney’s animation department out of its medieval lethargy...
...secured the use of two Pakistani bases, at Pasni on the Arabian Sea and at Jacobabad, where a fleet of U.S. helicopters and a Marine contingent have already landed. (Ostensibly, their mission is limited to search and rescue and the evacuation of Americans endangered by protests in Pakistan, though the Pentagon seems relaxed about the constraint. "There's not that much difference between a search-and-rescue and a search-and-destroy mission," says an official.) The price for this help? Islamabad won't tolerate a postwar government in Kabul dominated by the Northern Alliance...
...Oman, as a base for the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, the Army's commando chopper unit. The first is politically sensitive; nobody's eager to do the second; so even though forces may use Pakistani bases for refueling and emergencies, the Kitty Hawk, sailing in the Arabian Sea, is likely to be the primary base of sustained special operations...
...This, too, we must understand—that however much it may pain the goo-goos and Oprah-watchers to admit, our enemies are Islamic, and their ideology is rooted in Islamic traditions that stretch all the way back to when the first Muslim empires were carved from the Arabian desert...