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...Asia originate, like Al Qaida itself, in the Afghan war. Afghanistan's jihad against the Soviet invaders drew Islamic radicals from all over the world to Western Pakistan, where they were armed, trained and organized to fight alongside the Afghan mujahedeen warriors. A handful of those volunteers came from distant Malaysia and the Philippines. Many of the international volunteers for the Afghan jihad later formed the basis of Osama Bin Laden's Al Qaida network, and some of its earliest supporters came from Southeast Asia...
Worse, our TVs continued to operate, revealing just how psychologically entwined Montanans are with distant urban centers. Though the fact might embarrass some rugged individualists, the Western outback is satellite-TV country; normal transmissions can't make it between the mountains. There's a dish on every cabin, every ranch house. And since the service that many other people and I use features network affiliates from New York City but not a single station from the West, the bad news from Manhattan was local news. Electronics trumped geography. To feel separate from the horror was impossible, and there were times...
...Afghans are willing to wait until the bombs fall before they dash to safety. The border crossing at Chaman, for one, could hardly be in a more inhospitable place. On one side lies Afghanistan, where the hazy, distant hills gleam strangely, as if the earth were glazed by the heat from Pakistan's 1998 nuclear test on its side of the border. There are only a scattering of thorny shrubs on the landscape. A few Pakistani frontier guards use stubby whips to hold back a tide of gaudily painted trucks, donkey carts loaded with gnarled metal scraps (about all that...
...just don’t feel like talking about politics right now,” Gore said. “After what happened Sept. 11, all of that seems so distant...
...always be dictated by the feverish need to know the latest in foreign policy or the threat of war. And perhaps, given recent developments, that day is further off than any of us had originally anticipated, I don’t know. I do know that even in the distant future I hope to take from these recent events a heightened ability to move between the realms of casual frivolity and significant personal reflection with greater ease. With an anchored awareness of the world around me and a mature sense of priority, I hope to be able to enjoy...