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Bess McKinney, a senior at Brown, said violence against Afghans was “creating hundreds more terrorists” as a backlash...
...Whenever a Western country attacks a Muslim nation, it runs the risk of sparking a backlash among the "ummah" - even if it drops food as a gesture of goodwill to the civilian population. And that gives the politically precarious regimes of the Middle East and Central and Southeast Asia that have backed the U.S. campaign good reason to pay very close attention to this Friday's sermons...
...backlash...
...that backlash has been fairly muted...
...Pakistan, with its military rule, mounting domestic Islamist challenge and long history of intimacy with the Taliban regime, faces the toughest challenge. The backlash there will mount rather than diminish as the bombing continues and refugees flood across from Afghanistan. And Pakistan will soon find itself scrambling to find a new proxy in Kabul to compete with the Russian-backed Northern Alliance for influence in a post-Taliban Afghanistan. General Musharraf's recent reshuffle of his generals suggests he's also on the lookout for any backlash from within the military. The U.S., too, will keep close watch, knowing that...