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Furthermore, the way America treats Afghanistan will be taken as an indication of the way we will treat other failed states in the future. If we abandon the country after locating Osama bin Laden and other leaders of al Qaeda, the world will assume that we have no other goal than our immediate self-interest. The U.S. must show that it is genuinely concerned about the fate of the Afghan people, and the only way to do that is to strongly support, in both word and deed, the U.N.’s efforts to rebuild Afghanistan...
...Crucially, the skits also provide an outlet for criticism of students’ treatment in research labs. For example, the most recent show included many skits critiquing one Faculty member’s treatment of graduate students, and ominously suggesting that if conditions did not change graduate students might abandon working in the laboratory entirely...
...Francisco, even as Harvard alums fight to restore ROTC, and 100 times as many Smith College students turn out to meet the CIA recruiter as did a decade ago. People decide to get in shape in case they have to run down 50 flights of stairs, while others abandon their diets because fudge is a great antidepressant--and if the world ends tomorrow, they don't want their last meal to be a celery stick...
...recent op-ed. Before the war, eight million Afganis were on the brink of starvation. The only thing keeping these people alive was the food rations provided by international NGOs and the United Nations World Food Program. But when the bombing began, these organizations were forced to abandon the eight million Afghanis who depended on them for their daily bread. Suppose the food drop operation was flawless and all 37,000 daily packets reach their intended recipients. Even under this best-case scenario, millions of Afghanis will starve. While our bombs may kill a few hundred Afghanis, the bombing campaign...
...Force even admitted its loss. It took military commanders four days to unravel why an Albanian refugee convoy at Djakovica was mistakenly bombed. nato learned painfully that speed and candor are crucial. But the Afghan campaign shows how lessons learned can be lessons ignored. Governments, too, abandon humility and lose their memories...