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Both Ignatieff and Hehir spoke of the need to reevaluate government procedures to avoid civilian casualties...
...Alliance's civilian political leaders are in complete agreement on not going to Kabul yet. A lot of their commanders want to go now. But whenever a war begins, these sorts of debates arise. Still, if the Northern Alliance, helped by the U.S., takes the city of Mazari al-Sharif this week, that will be plenty. They don't need to rush to Kabul when no alternative government is ready. Plainly there are schisms within the Taliban, and the U.S. is also trying to exploit those. If you're going to create a stable government, you have to put together...
...Similarly, great pains have been taken to isolate the American troops from the Saudi public and minimize cultural clashes...Their bases are located away from cities and towns, and when they must venture into settlements, they are under orders to wear civilian clothing and to go unarmed when possible. Violations...have evoked complaints from the Saudis, though both sides are eager to downplay such frictions...
...Whenever a Western country attacks a Muslim nation, it runs the risk of sparking a backlash among the "ummah" - even if it drops food as a gesture of goodwill to the civilian population. And that gives the politically precarious regimes of the Middle East and Central and Southeast Asia that have backed the U.S. campaign good reason to pay very close attention to this Friday's sermons...
...civilian side, targets would include the apparatus of internal and external security, the defense and interior ministries, police outposts, those sorts of things. It's about doing anything possible from the air to pry loose the Taliban's fingers from the levers of power - anything that facilitates them policing the population is something the U.S. would want to hit, if it wants to topple the Taliban. And that's what they've said they want...