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...started losing, exposing its shallow hold on them. "The Taliban showed they were good at enforcing beard lengths," says a Western diplomat, "and that's about it." The first, pivotal defeat of the Taliban, in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, was greased by local Pashtun fed up with taking orders from "these village idiots from the south," as a foreign aid worker put it. Those fighters cut a secret deal with Alliance commander Rashid Dostum to allow Dostum's cavalry to pour through the Taliban front line. After that, the Alliance achieved its rout of the Taliban...
Considerable damage is done when a class––especially one that has tripled in size this year––is fed one point of view disguised as historical truth. And, responsibility for this damage extends to the University’s highest levels, especially when that class is part of the Core program, sanctioned by the College as fundamental knowledge...
...scene outside of Eliot House fed the flames of the growing melodrama. A barrage of at least eight emergency vehicles suddenly appeared on the scene, transforming Eliot House into a giant movie set, and us, its humble denizens, into starring actors watching its demise! Impatient to get as much time on camera as possible, we thronged in mobs around the emergency vehicles as they appeared one after another, elbowing forward to catch a glimpse of a firefighter bravely risking his life to save our poor Eliot...
...deeper world as well as the wider. For the period in question, America has been hydroplaning on the present, creating and devouring a culture consisting of relentless ephemera. The intellectual so-called life became deconstructionist game playing, politics became claptrap, "globalization" became internationalism for shoppers. Our superpowerhood fed feelings of omnipotence and self-righteousness (remember the "City on a Hill"?), which in turn created a false sense of immunity. On Sept. 11, airplanes crashed into two cities on a hill...
Much of the espionage involves collaborating with overseas intelligence services to round up bin Laden supporters. Some 300 suspects have been arrested in 42 countries, many as a result of intelligence the CIA fed to foreign agencies. Operatives have even been trying to penetrate the Russian mafia for leads on chemical or biological agents that bin Laden has been trying to buy from it. Agents have also been trying to entice Pashtun warlords to turn against the Taliban with offers of cash. But they have had limited success. One reason: drug trafficking in the region has driven up bribe prices...