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...nervousness about a U.S.-backed assault on Mazar. The Taliban fear that Mazar will be the first in a succession of falling dominoes, providing a base for the Alliance to clear a northern tier of opposition territory and open up supply routes from Uzbekistan. The Taliban warns of savage combat in Mazar that could ensnare American special forces. "The best Taliban fighters are in Mazar," says the official. "They've pledged not to leave the city alive...
Outreach is one way to combat this problem. OCS Study-Out-of-Residence Advisor J. Jane Pavese says that OCS has been and will continue to make outreach a central focus of their efforts to encourage Harvard students to study abroad. OCS currently organizes meetings with department heads, groups of concentrators, and an international study and volunteer fair...
...this week, but Tokyo's Asahi Shimbun urged the government to act more cautiously: "Nearly 50 days since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington and 20 days since the beginning of the military campaign in Afghanistan by U.S. and British forces, the effectiveness of the combat activity is still not clear and the toll of civilian casualties gradually continues to rise." The editorial backs Japanese support for U.S. military action "if it is confined in purpose and scope to track down terrorists and those who harbor terrorists," but warns of the dangers of a prolonged campaign...
...media may soon get over its four-week impatience, and settle in for a winter of low-key combat. President Bush and his cabinet members and generals have been at pains to remind us, all along, that this is a new type of war against a non-state actor, in which the definitions, strategies and yardsticks of all previous conflicts no longer apply. Still, if that puts U.S. ground troops into a long-term deployment in Afghanistan, expect to hear a lot more discussion of the Q-word on the Sunday talk shows...
Apparently it can?t be said enough. Again last Friday, European leaders reaffirmed their "staunchest support" for the U.S. military actions in Afghanistan and promised to redouble their efforts across the board to "combat terrorism in every form, throughout the world." Earlier in the week, with the American bombing campaign against the Taliban in full flourish, it looked as if such wholehearted support might be hard to pin down even in words...