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...weekend attackers, said Major General Abbas, belonged to "splinter groups" from Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) - another banned terrorist organization that emerged in 2000 as an anti-Indian insurgent group staging attacks across Kashmir's line of control. When that front simmered down, and U.S. troops arrived in Afghanistan, they discovered a new cause. "There was pressure on the group from inside," says Amir Rana, an expert on Pakistani militancy. "They thought that this was the time to fight alongside the Taliban, not confront them...
...countless arguments will be made to chart our course in Afghanistan. But in those debates, pictures will have their place. They bring their own kind of information to the table: news about the look and feel of a place, the light, the dust, the weather. They say something about the emotional climate too--like the difficulty of identifying the enemy in a place where the distinction between the insurgents and the local population may be indiscernible...
...policy in South Asia should be. What they try to tell us is something about what life is like for the brave men who carry out that policy, one day at a time. If it's true that sometimes we've let ourselves lose sight of Afghanistan, then as a start, let's look here...
Peter Bergen and Leslie H. Gelb face off over the Obama Administration's choices in Afghanistan (see pages...
Eight months into his presidency, Obama might want to give Moses a second look. On issues from health care to Afghanistan, the President faces doubts and rebellions, from an entrenched pharaonic establishment on one hand and restless, stiff-necked followers on the other. There's good reason, then, for Obama to heed the leadership lessons of history's greatest leader. Like presidential predecessors from Washington to Reagan, Obama can use the Moses story to help guide Americans in troubled times. From the Pilgrims to the Founding Fathers, the Civil War to the civil rights movement, Americans have turned to Moses...