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...consider its long-term interests. The Bush administration seems intent on alienating the very nations whose continued support is unquestionably vital to the success of this mission. Musharraf has specifically warned of “negative fallout” in the Muslim world were the United States to bomb through Ramadan; the leaders of a number of predominantly Muslim countries considered part of the coalition such as Kuwait, Egypt, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, have expressed strong reservations...
...traditional warfare and non-traditional alliances. Let’s prove that this non-traditional alliance can work. Let’s prove that the world is not fracturing along religious lines. Let’s respect the religious beliefs of our allies. Let’s not bomb during Ramadan...
Four plays and one minute later, Rose pump-faked to draw in the Penn secondary and launched a bomb down for Morris. Morris made an outstanding over-the-shoulder catch and then muscled his way past senior corner Stephen Faulk to complete the 62-yard scoring play to put Harvard up 21-14 with 6:57 left in the third quarter...
...what about accuracy? In the transparent, real-time information environment of new wars, trust is a commodity to be won, not assumed as of right. Officials want cockpit videos of bomb strikes to confirm immediate achievements. But post-conflict analysis typically shows that barely one-third of videoed explosions caused the purported damage. In Kosovo, Britain?s Chief of Defence Staff reported "significant" damage to Yugoslav tanks from nato bombing. After the fighting, most destroyed "tanks" were found to be crude wooden fakes. NATO officials later conceded that many war claims had been knowingly exaggerated to impress public opinion...
...Despite their paranoid aversion to TV images, the Taliban are learning fast. Last week they admitted several journalists to witness bomb damage in and around Kandahar. More will follow. The world?s only military superpower has failed to embrace the new tyranny of real-time information transparency in war. Low-cost video cameras and mobile phones can nimbly upstage billion-dollar information-processing systems and hierarchical command-and-control structures...