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...ambush on Delta Company was just the start of a mission that illustrates the challenges and frustrations facing U.S. forces today. On the night the troops come under attack, they are headed into the craggy ridges outside Kandahar to join an operation by coalition forces to corner Maulvi Hannan, a Taliban commander with known links to al-Qaeda. But the ambush and the injuries to the five soldiers force Turner to make some split-second decisions. While an Afghan interpreter tries to clear away local onlookers, the captain is busy on the radio. The medevac helicopter for the wounded soldiers...
Still, Turner and his men are eager to join the operation. Driving all night along riverbeds and dirt tracks, the convoy reaches its destination at daybreak. A pickup carrying Afghan troops has flipped over, injuring two soldiers, so Turner is down several men. Gates, the least injured passenger in the bombed humvee, insists on coming along. "I wasn't that shaken," says Gates. "I was just pissed that I didn't have a truck anymore. I wanted to do something...
...Taliban from outflanking the coalition special forces, who have set up an ambush for their prey in a deep canyon. But the Afghan commander, angry that a medevac chopper is late to arrive for his two soldiers who were injured when the pickup overturned, refuses to let his men join the mission. "Look at these Afghans. Why the hell should we be fighting their war?" says a U.S. sergeant disparagingly...
...Turkey. In polls, between 60-70% of Turks believe Turkey would be better off in the E.U. But that number is dwindling, down at least 10% from just one year ago, according to the German Marshall Fund. Moreover, 30% of Turks now believe that their country will never join the club. The E.U. has not made the process of accession easy, demanding a range of reforms, some of which are deeply unpopular in Turkey - and not just with nationalists. These include loosening restrictions on the use of the Kurdish language, and on Kurdish media, even as a new Kurdish insurgency...
Chinese women are forced by local officials officials to undergo abortions so bureaucrats can meet party requirements and advance their political careers. Government and local leaders do not care about the quality of life of these women. I admire the activism of Chen and hope that other Chinese will join in the fight for the health of the women and their children--born or unborn...