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...guarantor of territorial defense for member states, he says, but it must also become "a provider of global peace and stability" by targeting threats - terrorism, piracy - in distant lands. It needs to be more flexible and agile, and should work more closely and more smartly with civilian institutions like the U.N., the European Union and the World Bank. (rEAD: "As NATO Gathers, Its Future Is Looking Cloudy...
...that had enormous resonance - and I think more than 80 percent of people across all of these categories supported - was the idea of a year of national service for young people, either post-high school, between high school and college, or sometime during high school that would either be civilian service or military service in exchange for an educational grant or scholarship. Now, they didn't want government to make it mandatory; they wanted it to be voluntary. But I'm wondering, how do you feel about that? How do you both feel about that? And is there anything that...
...fecklessness. Despite the fact that he came to power on the back of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, Karzai used the latest poll as a chance to portray himself as the one Afghan willing to stand up and criticize the way U.S.-led coalition forces have inflicted civilian casualties while chasing the Taliban. "Karzai wants his legacy to be an Afghan leader who stood up against the foreigners," says Haroun Mir, director of Afghanistan's Center for Research and Policy Studies. "He also thinks the international community is trying to undermine...
Most Afghans in Kabul appreciate the international presence because of the relative stability it brings. Outside the capital, in the parts that haven't received the promised roads and schools and bridges, it is another matter. But all Afghans are furious over the high number of civilian casualties, especially the latest incident in which the Germans called in two NATO aircraft to bomb two fuel tankers hijacked by the Taliban - never mind that villagers were swarming the tankers for free fuel...
...package this," says Ernst, who moved to North Carolina in 2006 and teaches classes at Fort Bragg as well as Camp Lejeune, a Marine base near the coast. "There are a lot of ways you could describe the benefits of doing mind training and meditation. Maybe from a civilian approach we would emphasize cultivating happiness or peace. But that's not generally what a young soldier is interested in. They want to become the best warrior they can be." (Read a story on the health benefits of meditation...