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With his supporters, his three wives (he is rumored to have since added a fourth) and some 10 children, bin Laden moved again to Afghanistan. There he returned full time to jihad. This time, instead of importing holy warriors, he began to export them. He turned al-Qaeda into what some have called "a Ford Foundation" for Islamic terror organizations, building ties of varying strength to groups in at least a few dozen places. He brought their adherents to his camps in Afghanistan for training, then sent them back to Egypt, Algeria, the Palestinian territories, Kashmir, the Philippines, Eritrea, Libya...
...invaded. The mobs have marched on retail stores, mines and factories. If that weren't bad enough for the economy, foot-and-mouth disease was diagnosed last week in western Zimbabwe, probably spread by squatters driving rustled cattle into open areas to mingle with infected wild game. Beef export markets - worth $90 million last year - have disappeared. Foreign exchange has all but dried up. Inflation, likely to hit 100% by the end of the year, has compelled the government for the first time to issue a 500 Zimbabwe dollar note...
...sense, a calling of the NLA's bluff. Then again, the risk-averse Western alliance showed little vigor in carrying out its mandate to disarm Albanian nationalist guerrillas in Kosovo or to clamp down on those guerrillas' ethnic cleansing of the province's remaining Serbs and on their export of nationalist insurgencies into Serbia and Macedonia. Which may mean there may be more than a handful of nationalist guerrillas in Macedonia who see NATO as a paper tiger...
...21st century dawns, China again is on a mission to open itself to the world. Tens of thousands of individuals are on the journey, people like Gong Jian, a 30-year-old exporter I met over tea in the elegant Portman Ritz-Carlton hotel in Shanghai. His title might sound prosaic: manager of footwear department No. 2 for Shanghai Lansheng Corp. But he exemplifies the cosmopolitan business Elite in China's coastal cities, leading the export charge that explains why Magic Chef refrigerators and seemingly everything else on sale at the 3,500 Wal-Mart department stores in the United...
Because it’s simple, because it’s catchy, this is the music we export in mass quantities. Why should that be surprising? It’s the music we consume in large quantities at home. What we often forget is that despite all the high culture from other countries, they produce their share of bad stuff too. I’m traveling around Europe to sample good food, see fine paintings, and examine classic works of architecture. Even back in the 16th century, before America was a country, I’m sure that for every...