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...which Tehran regards as anathema. Iran focused its attentions instead on Hizballah, which for years fought Israeli soldiers occupying southern Lebanon. That battle lost its ferocity in May 2000, when Israel pulled out of Lebanon. The new Palestinian intifadeh, now 15 months old, offered Iran a fresh opportunity to export extremism. First, Iran's proxy Hizballah set up its own infrastructure in the West Bank and Gaza. Then, early last year, Iran organized closer cooperation between Hizballah and the Palestinian extremist group Hamas. Recently, senior Palestinian sources tell TIME, Hizballah put officials from Arafat's Authority on Iran's payroll...
...sector, it seemed a more natural ally for the Clinton administration than politically unstable Pakistan to the north with its basket-case economy and its close links with the Taliban. And as the regime that Pakistan had nurtured in Afghanistan came increasingly into conflict with the U.S. over the export of terrorism, Islamabad found itself the odd man out as the Islamist infrastructure it had cultivated partly in service to Cold War objectives now came increasingly into conflict with the West. September 11 finally forced a decisive choice on General Musharraf. Indeed, even after the Taliban's defeat, Washington...
...which Tehran regards as anathema. Iran focused its attentions instead on Hizballah, which for years fought Israeli soldiers occupying southern Lebanon. That battle lost its ferocity in May 2000, when Israel pulled out of Lebanon. The new Palestinian intifadeh, now 15 months old, offered Iran a fresh opportunity to export extremism. First, Iran's proxy Hizballah set up its own infrastructure in the West Bank and Gaza. Then, early last year, Iran organized closer cooperation between Hizballah and the Palestinian extremist group Hamas. Recently, senior Palestinian sources tell Time, Hizballah put officials from Arafat's Authority on Iran's payroll...
...Strategic Studies. There is rather "a full range of technical military capabilities, from ICBMs to 'feet on the ground,'" in which American power is unparalleled. From aircraft carriers (the U.S. has more than all other NATO members combined) to Tomahawk cruise missiles (so good that Washington allows their export only to Britain), the American military is better equipped and more technologically advanced than any other. To an extent, all that was true after the Gulf War 10 years ago. But the gap between American military capability and that of the rest of the world was obscured back then because...
...GLOBAL AGENDA, Nov. 19] didn't address the question of why the price of gasoline at the pumps is dropping when there is a war going on. Do you think it is because OPEC is being nice? Russia has become the world's second largest oil exporter, just when OPEC was hoping to cut back oil production. If new pipelines are built, Russia may be able to export enough oil to significantly reduce U.S. dependence on Middle East sources of oil. (Now is it clear why we are becoming friendly with Russia?) Do you think Saudi Arabia is upset...