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Chasing the Taliban How to take on the Taliban [March 8]? The real question should be, Why are we fighting the Taliban? If we are victorious, then what? There is no concrete government in Afghanistan, and when there was, corruption was the rule, not the exception. We cannot afford to continue propping up puppet regimes worldwide. Haven't we learned a lesson from Iraq? David Walker Dartmouth, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

...allies should do what was done successfully with World War II: destroy the enemy's warmaking capabilities, then help rebuild the country while maintaining a military presence to ensure that it doesn't make war again. It worked with Germany and Japan. Why not in Afghanistan? Pierre Dumaine Miami...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

...thrust their fists in the air and chant anti-American slogans. But their numbers, so far, have been limited. What reigns in Indonesia, instead, is waning optimism for Obama's efforts to re-engage with the global Islamic community, something he has managed to do with some success in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Last year, a local Muslim organization called Muhammadiyah urged its 29 million members to study Obama's Cairo speech when he called for a new beginning with followers of Islam. But since that historic address, Muhammadiyah's chairman Din Syamsuddin has felt his hopes deflate. "Obama indicated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Obama is Disappointing Asia — Even in Indonesia | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

GREGORY SMITH, a U.S. military spokesman, on being pressured by Defense Department official Michael Furlong, who is under investigation for allegedly hiring private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan to track and kill suspected militants; it is illegal for the military to hire contractors as spies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

...Hekmatyar has been a phantom presence on the edges of the Afghan insurgency. His Hezb-i-Islami militia - said to number between 2,000 and 3,000 fighters, and which operates independently of the Taliban - has carried out scores of ambushes on coalition forces in the northeastern mountains of Afghanistan and has claimed credit for two attempts on the life of President Hamid Karzai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Karzai Talks to the Enemy, but Is the U.S. On Board? | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

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