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...whom are still mired in grief on the second anniversary of the terrorist outrage, "learn from Asia" and "let it go"? Iyer should be careful. Asia is, after all, a vast continent that is home to Indians, Pakistanis, Israelis, Palestinians, Sunnis, Shi'ites, Chinese and Tibetans, among many others. Cambodia's leniency toward its mass murderers, which Iyer cited, is part of the problem, not the solution. By perpetuating hoary bromides about Asia's older cultures, Iyer furthers the very East vs. West attitude that he seems to oppose. Sanpaworn Vamvanij Bangkok...
Former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright noted in the latest issue of Foreign Policy magazine that “U.N. peacekeeping has maintained order in such diverse places as Namibia, El Salvador, Cambodia, eastern Slavonia, Mozambique, and Cyprus.” In contrast, the breakdown of security in Iraq and Afghanistan underscores the Bush administration’s inability to secure stability in post-conflict states and highlights the need for a change of course in Iraq...
...astounding feat of wartime engineering and defiance, the Ho Chi Minh Trail was actually a 16,000-kilometer network of roads, hacked by hand out of the jungles of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. It helped the communist North win the Vietnam War. U.S. forces never managed to destroy it, despite carpet bombing and the use of Agent Orange. Since the war ended, however, the trail has been largely reclaimed by jungle and myth; only a few, isolated fragments are accessible. Christopher Hunt's 1996 book Sparring with Charlie documented his trying, and mostly failing, to trace it. Indeed...
...Wahhabi outreach goes beyond the Muslim world. In March 2002 Ain al-Yaqeen, an official Saudi magazine, wrote that the royal family wholly or partly funded some 210 Islamic centers, 1,500 mosques, 202 colleges and 2,000 schools in countries without Muslim majorities. Cambodia is one such place. After the fall of the Khmer Rouge in 1979, Cambodia's Muslims, who make up 5% of the population, turned to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to help rebuild their mosques and schools. Accompanying the aid were teachers from those countries, with the result that today 10% to 15% of Cambodian Muslims...
...lackluster interface. Better to visit the website at worldbookonline.com Updated daily, the site features a "Today in History" section that cleverly lures kids into the past. And the "Media Showcase" challenges kids with questions such as "What type of stone was used to build the Angkor Wat temples in Cambodia?" (Answer: Sandstone.) A one-year subscription costs $50--almost twice the price of the CD set--but it's worth it for parents with young kids...