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...yesterday, that “describing last week’s attacks in Mumbai as India’s 9/11 diminishes both that carnage and the atrocity in New York seven years ago.” It was just typical domestic political subterfuge, or no more than the usual conflict with Pakistan. But for Indian citizens, those three days truly, clearly, and certainly were their 9/11. Supposed Muslims claiming mujahideen status abruptly slaughtered innocents in the subcontinent’s largest city. Perhaps, away from the noxious and monstrous carnage, foreigners shouldn’t be so quick to tell...
...most likely not about to witness an invasion of Pakistan. This is not simply because India holds less clout internationally than the United States did eight years ago. It is because the current Indian administration will continue to frame this crisis in terms of typical Indian-Pakistani conflict, involving rogue Pakistani extremists, rather than link it to the global backlash of radical Islam against Western modernization, or the possibility of terror sanctioned by the Pakistani state. Also, most citizens want to avoid a repeat of the Bush administration’s hastily-designed War on Terror...
...India and Pakistan can avoid slipping into the “with us or against us” dichotomy, no one else should—and that goes especially for the United States and Israel. Such a perspective ignores the intricate context of the regional India-Pakistan-Afghanistan conflict and extrapolates the problem to a global level when perhaps it should...
...disputes would seem to be even greater for Obama's team, given how its members have disagreed with the President-elect and one another on not only the Iraq war but also a range of other policy fronts that include Iran, Afghanistan, missile defense and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Whatever their differences in the past, however, Obama insists they can work together: "They would not have agreed to join my Administration and I would not have asked them to be part of this Administration unless we shared a core vision...
...women in Apter's study, the most common flash points were issues traditionally considered maternal ones: child care and housework. Conflict arises when the newcomer and the more experienced matriarch wrestle over whose way is best. "There's a concern that the values and norms of a different culture will take your son and your grandchildren away from the values and norms embedded in your own family," says Apter. "Sometimes this is an obvious concern about ethnic differences or religious differences"; sometimes it's about whose job it is to do the ironing. "From women of the older generation, there...