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Jaap De Hoop Scheffer says he has no illusions about the complexity of the task facing Nato in Afghanistan. But the aim of its mission, he adds, is quite simple: finish what was started. "If we think we can leave Afghanistan on its own now after all that we have invested, we are making a fatal mistake," Nato's Secretary-General told Time last week. "Afghanistan was an exporter of terrorism, and if we do not want it to become one again, we had better take what we do there very seriously." Who could argue with the Dutchman, installed...
...that the U.S. would withdraw from Europe within two years after Hitler was defeated. Instead, faced with the need to protect weakened Western democracies, the U.S. would embark on the Marshall Plan, a bid to make Europeans prosperous enough fast enough to keep them from turning communist, and initiate NATO, its first transatlantic alliance since its 18th century pact with France...
...devastation in Azad Kashmir has strengthened the precarious cease-fire and forced the Pakistanis to open up. On the mountainsides where thousands of refugee tents have sprouted between collapsed buildings, the U.S. military is delivering drinking water to camps run by "Axis of Evil" nemesis Iran; U.S. and NATO soldiers flirt with Cuban nurses. But the most surreal partnership of all is between the U.S. military and Islamic militants from groups like Lashkar-e-Toiba, branded by Washington as terrorists. Bemused to find himself at daily briefings in Muzaffarabad with U.S. and NATO military commanders, one Pakistani militant leader, Haji...
...will find plenty of credible reasons for that view in his trenchant dissection of the second half of the 20th. Judt takes Europe from its hour of deepest need after the war to today's sometimes complacent prosperity in telling detail. At the signing of the treaty that launched nato in 1949, he notices, the band played "I Got Plenty of Nothing" - roughly what the new alliance offered in terms of boots on the ground. At the time, Soviet forces in Europe outnumbered the Western Allies by a ratio of 12 to 1. Luckily, Judt argues, "for American policymakers, Europe...
...going to hear quite a lot of concerns from all quarters," says a top European Union diplomat in Brussels, where Secretary Rice will attend a dinner with EU and NATO counterparts, a meeting of the North Atlantic Council, and a number of bilateral meetings. "This is becoming a major problem...