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Historian Howard Zinn told a Harvard Square crowd last night that members of the Bush administration should seek out support groups to conquer their compulsion for combat. “I’ve been thinking we should have a group called ‘Imperialists Anonymous,’ and they would get up and confess to their addiction to war and militarism,” Zinn told an approving audience at the First Church in Cambridge, across the Mass Ave. from Harvard Yard. And repentant Bush administration officials aren’t the only ones who should...
...Afghanistan," he said. "You have to win the populace over, not kill it." But NATO spokesman Mark Laity defended NATO's strategy in the south, saying it was important that NATO showed they could win militarily against the Taliban. "We have shown that in combat terms we can be the winning side," he said, adding that now reconstruction and development would have to follow...
...Indonesia and the Philippines doing enough to combat terrorism? Indonesia and the Philippines are important partners for Australia in the fight against terrorism. Australian intelligence and law-enforcement agencies have established strong relationships with their counterparts in Southeast Asia, and the Australian government has provided support for regional capacity-building initiatives. This regional cooperation has continued to disrupt terrorist operations and planning activity...
...Arms Control Association, a private think tank in Washington, has just compiled totals for the 2005 major weapons exports that 28 nations have been reporting to the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms since May. The U.S. was the leader last year with 1,724 tanks, armored combat vehicles, heavy artillery, combat aircraft, attack helicopters, warships, missiles and missile launchers sent to 22 countries. Russia, which had been in and out of second place for several years, ran a close second with almost 1,000 major conventional weapons systems exported...
...Washington's biggest customers in 2005 included Israel (which received 22 F-16D jet fighters), Afghanistan (173 armored combat vehicles) and Egypt (100 M-1A1 tanks). Two-thirds of Russia's arms shipments went to China and India. Among the other busiest arms suppliers: Ukraine (which reported 649 weapons exports last year, almost double its 2004 count), Israel and Turkey...