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...also said that he believed McNamara knew the war was futile early in his Pentagon career, and that McNamara worked diligently inside the government to limit bombings and prevent the conflict from escalating into nuclear war with China...
...down to discuss his new role. Tall, lanky and earnest, with the loping stride of a long-distance runner - McChrystal runs 10 miles before his morning coffee - the general went to Afghanistan after a top job with the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington. He knows Afghanistan well. The conflict there, McChrystal told TIME, is a "tough war, a very tough...
...local supporters in the Taliban. That makes the war there the second longest (after Vietnam) in U.S. history. More than 1,200 coalition troops have died in Afghanistan; some 730 of the dead were American, but other nations have suffered too. Britain has lost 175 soldiers in the conflict, and Canada 124. And the deaths in uniform are the easy ones to count: they do not encompass the thousands of Afghan villagers who have been killed by the Taliban or by errant coalition actions. Last year alone, 828 civilians were killed by U.S., allied or Afghan troops, 552 of them...
...timing of the attacks is one: they coincided with the anniversary of the birth of North Korea's founder and Kim's dad, Kim Il Sung, an occasion you might reasonably expect the regime to celebrate with some long-distance shenanigans. And the regime is already embroiled in conflict with the U.S. over nukes and missiles; a hack attack would be just one more inflammatory act by a country that specializes in inflammatory actions...
...Uighur residents also fear further hostility. "There will be more conflict in the future," says a 25-year-old Uighur man sitting by a mosque in the Nanmen district, where the southern Uighur district abuts Urumqi's downtown. "Everyone has seen the images of Uighur attacking Han, but no one knows about Han attacking Uighur...