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Past Issues Taliban Last Days Dec. 17, 2001 ----------------- Lifting the Veil Dec. 3, 2001 ----------------- Hunt for bin Laden Nov. 26, 2001 ----------------- Thanksgiving 2001 Nov. 19, 2001 ----------------- Inside Al-Qaeda Nov. 12, 2001 ----------------- Defender In Chief Nov. 5, 2001 ----------------- Going In Oct. 29, 2001 ----------------- The Fear Factor Oct. 22, 2001 ----------------- Facing the Fury Oct. 15, 2001 ----------------- How Real Is the Threat? Oct. 8, 2001 ----------------- Life on the Home Front Oct. 1, 2001 ----------------- One Nation, Indivisible Sept. 24, 2001 ----------------- Day of Infamy Sept. 14, 2001 PHOTO ESSAYS Kabul Unveiled Taliban on the Run More Photos >>> MORE STORIES Where's OBL: Letter from...
...Still, the pundits' concern may be understandable. Last week, Rumsfeld told USA Today that the military could not be certain that Osama bin Laden would be captured or killed, but that the Taliban would certainly fall. (In a later corrective, he emphasized that the U.S. expects to get its man.) What was significant in those remarks was that toppling the Taliban appears to have become the primary goal and the snaring of bin Laden a bonus. And it has become clear after almost a month of bombing that the Taliban may be able to survive the current level...
...Nobody's particularly optimistic that the Afghan civil war that began almost a decade ago is going to end any time soon. That makes the definition of victory for the U.S. that much more difficult, particularly as long as bin Laden remains at large, and it makes exit something of a conundrum...
...spirit of a holiday calls us to once again enjoy our one-time blissful ignorance of the realities of terrorism. After all, the likes of Osama bin Laden succeed when the cultures they target grind to a halt, possessed by threat and fear. American culture, and especially the Harvard community, must not succumb so easily. Air strikes are effective retaliation, but for tonight, kids trick-or-treating and college students partying without fear send a louder message to bin Laden that his tactics have failed...
...terror attack in the next week? Threat warnings are easy to make but difficult to justify - at least in public. Divulge too many details on why you're giving the warning and you expose "sources and methods" - spy jargon for how you got the intelligence on the threat. Osama bin Laden and his operatives are savvy. They watch closely U.S. threat warnings for clues as to where the leaks are in their operations, so the leaks can be plugged...