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...vineyards and poppy fields of southern Afghanistan it is hard to know who the enemy is. In their black turbans, Taliban fighters can vanish like ghosts into the local population, leaving NATO soldiers shooting into thin air, or worse still at the wrong targets - which is what happened this week as the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan came to a close...
...Afghan officials said dozens of civilians were killed late Tuesday when NATO warplanes bombarded a village in the district of Panjwai just 20 kilometers outside the largest city in southern Afghanistan, the former Taliban stronghold of Kandahar. Panjwai district has been the scene of some of the fiercest fighting in the Afghan south this summer, with NATO killing at least 500 suspected insurgents in the two-week-long Operation Medusa, which concluded last month...
...Control of Panjwai, which lies so close to the political heart of the Afghan south, is vital, and it seems NATO's hold on the district is slipping. Lieutenant General David Richards called Operation Medusa a "significant success," but weeks later the Taliban have come back with a vengeance, staging large-scale attacks on NATO bases in the area and scotching NATO claims that they had driven the Taliban out of Panjwai...
...defeated? Imagine if Islamic militants claimed that so-called Crusaders invaded Arab lands for their own purposes. The consequence would be terrorist attacks, and the victims would be the people of Darfur. Why not gather a robust force from Islamic nations? What about Turkish ground forces supported by nato? The outcry in the Islamic world could be silenced if it is non-Westerners who go into Darfur. Michael Richarz Wuppertal, Germany It is with increasing incredulity that I watch the unfortunate events in the Darfur region of Sudan. The phrase "paralysis of analysis" applies to the U.N. in this regard...
Europe has long been, and remains, a vitally important area of world affairs. However contemporary Europe, or at least the parts of it that belong to the EU and NATO, is usually viewed only in terms of its foreign policy. In America, coverage of European domestic politics and issues is usually limited to, alternately, cheap caricatures of EU bureaucratization or breathless accounts of what America might someday resemble if only people would stop voting for Republicans, driving SUVs, and shopping at Wal-Mart...