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...thing to prepare to die in glory, another to face death in total defeat. As he prepared to make his last stand, did bin Laden still rejoice in his victory, confident that God would smile on his achievement? Back in November when he sat in front of the camera with the servile Saudi sheik to giggle and gloat over triumphs beyond his fondest hopes, he confessed to only one miscalculation: he had thought that only the tops of the skyscrapers would collapse, killing hundreds. What a lovely surprise--the answer to a prayer, his disciples suggested--that the buildings actually...
Intimidation was pervasive during the initial hand-wringing period. What have we done to inspire such rage? What can we do? Sure, we can strike back, but will that not just make the enemy even more angry and determined and fanatical? How can you defeat an enemy who thinks he's on a mission from...
...while Bush looks to turn his public energies toward Congress and his domestic agenda in 2002, Americans don?t seem to be losing patience with his foreign agenda - no matter where it leads. Some 57 percent favor a "long-term war to defeat global terrorism" (32 percent want military action only against the specific groups responsible for Sept. 11). Some 73 percent think the U.S. should commit ground troops to a military effort to remove Saddam Hussein from power - if only the father had had those numbers - and 66 percent extend that license to "other countries that the Bush administration...
...survive may now depend substantially on perceptions among the Islamists of the relative strengths of bin Laden and his enemies. The Afghan campaign has not diminished the anti-American anger on which bin Laden built his movement - Arab media is dominated not by stories of al-Qaeda's defeat, but by reports of Palestinians under attack by Israel and of U.S. support for Ariel Sharon; moderate Arab regimes are pleading with Washington to abandon talk of a new war with Iraq, and so on. But whether the militants in the various Islamist networks are going to continue to risk their...
...opposition to Oslo kept Hamas from challenging Arafat in the 1994 elections for the PA. It did, however, challenge and resoundingly defeat Fatah in many student council elections in the West Bank and Gaza. Still, there was always dialogue between the PA and Hamas, and periodic uneasy, silent agreements between them. In 1996, Hamas unleashed a wave of deadly bombings that killed 60 Israelis in eight days, prompting Arafat to clamp down heavily - some 1,000 Palestinians were arrested and the PA even ousted Hamas from some of its mosques. Later, the organizations appear to have negotiated a modus vivendi...