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Labor Day weekend. Already? Well, yes. And a friend of mine reports seeing the first little "Noel" sign, shyly poking its head up over a bin of holiday items when he visited his local Costco last weekend. Maybe we should all get an early jump on our Christmas card lists in the next week...
...year, when it takes charge of security in the country's eastern sector. The reinforcements are coming primarily from the U.S., Canada, Britain and the Netherlands, though 33 other countries also contribute to isaf. (Around 10,000 troops under direct U.S. control will continue to hunt Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaeda leaders in the wild reaches straddling the border with Pakistan, where the Taliban maintains bases.) There's a consensus among European political élites that Afghanistan isn't an Iraq; even left-wing governments believe the war there is legal and worth fighting to keep the country...
...OSAMA BIN LADEN really watch MacGyver, rock to Van Halen and lust after WHITNEY HOUSTON? Those are some of the claims made in an autobiography -- published in February but overlooked until Harper's printed excerpts last week by Sudanese born novelist Kola Boof, who says she was bin Laden's mistress in 1996. Boof, who wrote two scripts for Days of Our Lives, says bin Laden called Houston a beautiful woman "brainwashed by American culture and her husband, Bobby Brown, whom Osama talked about having killed." "Nobody in the West," Boof laments, "believes me when I tell...
...Finding the Way to Peace Robert Malley's viewpoint on U.S. policy in the Middle East [July 24] is absurd. According to his theory, the next logical step would be for the Bush Administration to start peace negotiations with the Taliban, Iraqi insurgents and even Osama bin Laden. Can you imagine what the world would be like today if F.D.R. had decided to negotiate with Japan and Nazi Germany? David Holtzer Kibbutz Urim, Israel...
...Liberal Fascism: The Totalitarian Temptation from Mussolini to Hillary Clinton and Whitewash: How the News Media Are Paving Hillary Clinton's Path to the Presidency. One of her hapless opponents for the Senate seat ran an ad against her last week that featured pictures of Hillary and Osama bin Laden on the same screen. As a presidential candidate, Hillary could count on every attack from the right that Bill gotmaybe worse, because he never had to contend with the blogosphere or the newer kind of independent operation that turned swift boat into a verb in the 2004 presidential election...