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...days since the showdown key Northern Alliance leaders have become vitriolic. "We're asking ourselves is this an Afghan palace or an American palace?" a senior general says. Western diplomats in Kabul are waiting to assess the fallout. "I can't gauge yet whether this is a very very serious thing or whether it will pass as just something that happened," says one. General Sharif's reaction is not heartening. "The U.S. has turned its back on us," he says, "So let me tell you something: the Russians helped the Vietnamese defeat America, then the Americans helped the Afghans beat...
With that unnerving remark, my eyes strained towards the ground to assess whether or not my long-neglected pinky toes had, as Teddy predicted, been rendered gimpy and disfigured from years spent under the yoke of New Balances. Pointing to his own feet, Teddy illustrated the sort of vigorous, proud and gloriously unmarred pinky toes that could flourish in the absence of shoes. I again peered downward in an effort to survey the damage wrought by 20 years of intense shoe dependency and I found only two withered stubs masquerading as pinky toes. They looked less like natural appendages...
Following the attacks of last Sept. 11, the student-led Committee on Security Studies (CSS) set out to assess what resources Harvard offered in the areas of national security, political violence and terrorism. We concluded that Harvard’s response to the attacks was as strong as that at any university in the country. We set out with the understanding that Harvard would play a leading role in training the future political, economic and military leaders who could potentially execute not only the affairs of America but also those of other nations in the War on Terror and beyond...
...presentation left even stalwarts of the President's party unhappy. "We want to be with you," Oklahoma Senator Don Nickles, the Senate's second-ranking Republican, finally told him. "But you're not giving us enough." The following day, the White House and State Department phoned Senators to assess the damage. Not a fatal setback, they concluded, but the mess in Room S-407 showed that the President will have to work hard to convince Congress and the American public that a war with Iraq is in the national interest. Congress normally gives a popular Commander in Chief what...
...lieu of that, the let's-roll camp emphasizes--as one Administration official put it--"what we do have that's new adds to the whole narrative of the story." The hawks mean that to assess the risk properly, Saddam's weapons potential must be laid alongside the dictator's well-known nasty past. The way they see it, Saddam already has all the weapons of mass destruction he needs to pose an intolerable threat--because he would use them, personally or by terrorist proxy. They point out that he used chemicals against Iran during his eight-year war with...