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...want the Northern Alliance to march on Kabul, but the U.S. does not want the opposition group to actually capture it. That's because the alliance is composed primarily of fighters from the Uzbek, Tajik and Hazari minorities and would be unable to create a stable government without the consent of the Pashtun, the largest of Afghanistan's ethnic groups. The Taliban's membership is exclusively Pashtun, but it is far from representative of all 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...
...minority Tajik, Uzbek and Hazari ethnic groups, and carries the backing of Iran, Russia and Moscow's Central Asian allies. Afghanistan cannot be easily ruled by a government that excludes its largest ethnic group, the Pashtun (from which the Taliban are exclusively drawn). Or, for that matter, without the consent of Pakistan, the other key regional player in Afghanistan which has helped the Taliban fight the Northern Alliance...
...break up Microsoft was always an uphill battle--it's an extreme remedy under antitrust law. But dividing a company has the practical advantage of being self-enforcing. "One of the pluses of a split is that it is far less intrusive in the long run than a long consent decree," says Salil Mehra, a Temple University law professor and former antitrust-division lawyer. Two newly created Baby Bills would have had an economic incentive to act competitively, meaning that the market would guard against future monopolistic activity. Conduct remedies, by contrast, require a court to monitor the offender...
Which is just what Microsoft's critics are worried will happen. This case started when the government took Microsoft to court in 1997 for violating a prior consent decree. Some in the tech industry say this is what Microsoft will probably do again. "The government made a decision a year ago that it needed a structural remedy," says Edward Black, CEO of the Computer & Communications Industry Association and an outspoken Microsoft critic. "If anything, Microsoft's market dominance has only gotten worse since then...
...While NATO's support improves the U.S. striking power and widens political and diplomatic consent for any counterstrike, the crucial allies in the battle against Bin Laden remain the governments and security services of the Islamic world - because it is intelligence, rather than air power or armor, that wins the war on terrorism...