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...Pasthun, and Washington had hoped that the bombing campaign would create significant defections from within the Taliban as well as rallying other Pashtun warlords against the Taliban. (So far, there are few signs of mass defection.) But the other crucial factor shaping the political guidelines for the conduct of the war is the U.S. reliance on Pakistan, which is firmly opposed to the Northern Alliance taking Kabul. Islamabad, instead, wants to rehabilitate the Taliban, minus Mullah Omar and Bin Laden, and give it an important role in a new government - a prospect rejected by the Northern Alliance...
...Easy: international politics. To conduct the war in Afghanistan, Washington needs allies in the region. Bombers can fly from Diego Garcia and aircraft carriers, but the helicopters vital for close-in work?to say nothing of the soldiers who will do it?generally need bases nearer to the action. So far, the U.S. has made more headway than expected; last week Washington signed a forces agreement with Uzbekistan allowing for the long-term stationing of American troops and aircraft in the Central Asian country. Khanabad, an air base 125 miles north of the Afghan border, has become the staging-post...
...that's a tough call: Arafat will be hard-pressed to sustain any clampdown if he has nothing to show for it, even more so while Israeli forces remain inside PA territory. Ordinary Palestinians are unlikely to accept the arrest of Zeevi's assassins while Israeli forces continue to conduct assassinations of their own. And while Sharon's Labor Party partners may wring their hands and threaten to quit the government if the current military deployments in PA areas are maintained for too much longer, Israeli public opinion remains strongly supportive of harsh action against Arafat...
...referred to bills recently passed by the U.S. House and Senate that would extend the federal government’s ability to conduct wiretaps and other surveillance activities and would allow information to be shared among intelligence agencies...
...sure, Washington's Arab allies have all been adamant that resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is essential to the long-term battle against terrorism. And the point same point has been explicitly endorsed by Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair - and implicitly endorsed by the U.S. in its conduct since the attacks...