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...went on for the rest of my childhood, but it was mainly a distant thing. Still, as I got older I realized odd things were going on. Our dictator was giving speeches about transforming Pakistan into a society based on his interpretation of Islam. Painted images of F-16s given by America were appearing on the backs of buses under the words GOD IS GREAT. Armed college students were telling women to cover their heads...
...INFIDELS reads another. Attiya laughs. "Their infidels include all of us," she says, gesturing to her husband and young daughters. The slogans, which started appearing a year or two ago, creep up almost to the edge of her village. But for Larik's residents, Kashmir is as distant as the moon. "We feel sad for what is happening there," says one, "but we don't have the commitment to fight." Attiya and Aslam come from a long line of religious scholars, going back at least seven generations. Their forefathers all memorized the Koran, and the house where they were born...
...Word will be overshadowed by the events of Sept. 11. Near the end of the film, a speedboat races across the Long Island Sound. The sun is sinking into the ocean, the sky bleeds gray and orange, and the towers of the World Trade Center stand tall against the distant horizon. It is a striking shot, one that resonates deeply as the action moves into a dark, silent cemetery. A foreboding haze rises into the night air, the movie falls swiftly away...
...Vietnam era, as today, the establishment told protesters to be quiet and let the people in power do their job. The protesters refused. Today there is much less room for questioning the perspicacity of the occupants of the White House as they dispatch the armed forces to distant locales, once again subjecting American soldiers and untold numbers of foreign civilians to the law of unintended consequences. Protest will grow slowly, but it will grow. Undoubtedly, as the anti-war movement finds its legs, the nation’s editorial pages will be filled with belittling comparisons of today?...
Instead, we will have to deal with nations that have at best a complicated relationship with the U.S. or are geographically distant from the axis of terrorism. Nonetheless, these countries, ranging from poor to mind-numbingly destitute, need U.S. aid, both to improve the lives of their citizens and to strengthen their regimes. Doing so will require that we cast aside some requirements of our previous economic aid, like our preference for dealing with democracies rather than kingdoms and military dictatorships. It will require honoring the reverse of President Bush’s threat—you?...