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...Spring has seen an escalation in both the number and intensity of operations by the Taliban and its allies - although there may now be less direct involvement by al-Qaeda personnel, the new guerrilla war appears to involve a coordinated command structure combining Taliban fighters, loyalists of the fiercely anti-American warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and other former Mujahedeen commanders alienated from the U.S.-backed government in Kabul...
...Taliban commanders have begun giving interviews with media organizations confidently describing a new offensive, and the audacity of the resurgent radicalism was highlighted Tuesday by the first anti-American demonstration in Kabul since the Taliban's demise - it drew some 300 students and government employees, complaining of a lack of security but also demanding that the U.S. leave and Islamic rule be restored...
Glaeser has most recently researched the economy of hatred, studying the situation of blacks in the United States in the late 1800s, Jews in Nazi Germany and anti-American sentiments in the Middle East during recent decades. He has concluded that “hatred is not innate, but is rather a creation of particular political actors who face incentives to build hatred...
...course, the muscular assertion of Shiite identity and claims is not necessarily at odds with U.S. plans for a post-Saddam Iraq. Indeed, an anti-American demonstration held Wednesday at the culmination of the Kerbala pilgrimage drew only a few thousand of the hundreds of thousands of pilgrims. Much depends, in fact, on the exact nature of Washington's plans. And those are the subject of a fierce, and increasingly bitter political firefight in Washington - witness the charge Defense Policy Board member Newt Gingrich, Tuesday, that State Department officials on Garner's team had been sent to undermine President Bush...
...alive--are running rampant. If Washington hoped the initial scenes of Iraqi jubilation over Saddam's fall would ameliorate Arab antipathy toward the U.S., the Arab street took a different direction. "I used to love America so much," says Deena Wagdy, 29, a Cairo advertising executive. "I am so anti-American...