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...With the exception of a certain number of perverts who sneak in, there is nothing wrong with social networks, but marketers don't want the perverts and they don't want a collection of people with no common purpose other than to share with one another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facebook Takes a Dive: Why Social Networks Are Bad Businesses | 4/1/2009 | See Source »

...temptation of more ambitious goals in Afghanistan, like rooting out the entire Taliban or fostering Western-style democracy. We must never forget that it was al-Qaeda who attacked us and not the Taliban, which is not an international terrorist group. If we make the all-too-common mistake of reducing the Taliban to al-Qaeda, it becomes an open-ended and endless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Avoiding a Quagmire in Afghanistan | 4/1/2009 | See Source »

...people. There are some 40 million of them, but no one knows for sure because the central governments in Kabul and Islamabad have never felt safe enough to take a proper census. The Taliban are overwhelmingly Pashtun. The Pashtun have never had their own country, but they share a common language and identity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Avoiding a Quagmire in Afghanistan | 4/1/2009 | See Source »

...most importantly, they're willing to shed their blood for each other. The Pashtun have a long history of uniting to face a common, external threat. They held up Alexander the Great for years - if for no other reason than pure belligerence. Something like that seems to be happening today. In February, the Taliban organizations in Pakistan and Afghanistan agreed to put aside their differences, and combine forces to fight NATO in Afghanistan. What incited the alliance was the Obama Administration's plans to send an additional 17,000 troops. (Read "The Truth About Talibanistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Avoiding a Quagmire in Afghanistan | 4/1/2009 | See Source »

...What's alarming about a war with the Pashtun is that we know so little about these people. A common complaint among NATO soldiers these days in Afghanistan is the reliance on Tajik translators and intelligence sources. The Tajiks more often than not pass on bogus information that has led to attacks on innocent civilians - often Pahstun whom the Tajiks have little sympathy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Avoiding a Quagmire in Afghanistan | 4/1/2009 | See Source »

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