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Still, it must be comforting to have so single-minded a purpose. But there is more to Phase I of the war on terror than the demise of bin Laden or even the defeat of the Taliban. The collateral damage from those objectives has reduced Afghanistan to a nation where warlordism, betrayal and defection are again the order of the day. After 22 years of perpetual war, Afghans no longer trust any army on their territory. What they long for is security...
Even with the final defeat of the Taliban, when and if that occurs, Afghan women will remain in a vexed position. The forces vying to take the Taliban's place are not always friendly to women. Within the Northern Alliance, there is a fundamental split between Western-minded technocrats and conservative religious figures. Abdullah Abdullah, the Alliance's media-savvy Foreign Minister, is a technocrat. In his speeches he makes sure to point out that in Alliance-held areas women go to school. He goes so far as to support women's joining the government...
...ways we have changed since Sept. 11, the most heartening lies in what we believe about ourselves. And what we believe in—or, better, what we have remembered to believe in—is the ideal of America as a righteous nation dedicated to the defeat of evil...
Sophomore goalie Will Crothers is healthy after a bout with the flu and looked sharp in Harvard’s 1-0 defeat at BC last Friday, November...
...signed up to help—sending a powerful message of solidarity with all Americans in our time of crisis. The way to maintain volunteers in an anti-terrorism effort is not to then serve them with a letter accusing them of being the terrorists we are working to defeat. One would hope that the Justice Department, responsible for gathering information in thousands of federal cases, would understand that principle...