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...addition to criticizing the Bush administration’s efforts, Zinn claimed that the American media has been quiet about civilian casualties in Afghanistan to keep the American people behind...
...attacks has affirmed the belief that any relief from terror attacks achieved by reoccupying Palestinian cities is, at best, only temporary. But most of those same Israelis believe their government has no alternative to the occupations. Before Tuesday, Israel had gone 26 days without an attack on its civilian population - almost a record. Their limited options for transforming the situation, however, leave few Israelis expecting the record for days of calm - for Israelis if not for Palestinians - to be broken any time soon...
...Afghanistan has become. The U.S. may have won, in the accepted sense of the word, but the enemy hasn't surrendered. Since the battle of Shah-i-Kot in March, al-Qaeda and Taliban forces have split into smaller and smaller groups, which survive by mixing with civilian populations. That's exactly what a big, heavily armed superpower with a taste for making war from the air doesn't want; it makes the chance of accidents like Kakarak much more likely...
...legal system does work as a weapon in the war on terror. The Bush administration got the strong sentence it wanted, and it avoided the use of secret military tribunals with have come under harsh criticism at home and abroad. If nothing else, the successful use of the civilian court system in Lindh's case is something of a public relations triumph, and one that might influence whether Hamdi and Padilla are tried in civilian or military courts. It's easier to fight a war when you are not employing unpopular methods, and Cassel thinks the prosecution...
...grown up: As a nation whose civilian population largely escaped the horrors of the 20th century, it's been said that Americans can't possibly understand what it's like to live under the fear of imminent death known to so many of our allies. Now, some of that has come home. We have seen destruction and death, and we have survived, sadder and more watchful than before...