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...Alliance capturing Mazar before the onset of winter. That "could provide the U.S. forces with a bridgehead or land corridor from Uzbekistan to ferry troops and supplies into Afghanistan, an advantage Pakistan cannot and has not offered because of domestic political constraints." The danger, of course, is de facto partition of Afghanistan, "a prospect no Afghan patriot contemplates with enthusiasm or equanimity. However, that may well be the bitter reality that will have to be swallowed, at least until there are signs, not visible so far, of some internal weakening of the Taliban and/or defections from the Pushtuns backing them...
...society when transformative events take place, like the end of the Cold War. What do we do when the Cold War ends? The question I was always wrestling with was an interesting one: were we a monopoly superpower that was, in the events before Sept. 11, a de facto isolationist country? In finance and business we weren’t, but were we in other areas? And I thought that the political system and the media, most particularly television, showed that we were. That’s what I was really trying to get at. That was the question...
...Although President Bush's Monday announcement of support for Palestinian statehood will be widely interpreted as a concession to Arab sensitivities, there's nothing particularly new about it - a de facto a recognition of the Palestinians' right to statehood has undergirded both U.S. and Israeli policy in the last decade. President Clinton explicitly endorsed the principle late last year, while Israel's last two Labor Party prime ministers, Yitzhak Rabin and Ehud Barak, implicitly accepted it as a basis for the Oslo peace process with the Palestinians. Oslo was based on the premise of a "two-state" solution...
...Taliban, despite its de facto sponsorship of terror, wishes to cooperate in the investigation, all the better. But we stand behind President George W. Bush’s statement that closing terrorist training camps and bringing the members of al-Qaeda to justice are not negotiable demands. The use of military force would be justified if it proves necessary to bring the masterminds of Sept. 11 to justice, eradicate the networks of terror, and bring the assurance of security to innocent people throughout the world...
Whatever is built may be seen as a de facto memorial. Says Carol Ross Barney, who designed the new federal building in Oklahoma City to replace the one destroyed in the 1995 bombing: "I don't know if you can build anything that's not a symbol. Every building tells you what people were thinking when they built it." But Oklahoma City erected a separate memorial nearby, and aside from its symbolic presence, says Barney, "there's nothing about the building that specifically commemorates the bombing...