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...guessing where bin Laden has made his cave or whether the U.S. will find it will remain a fool's game. But the arrival of ground forces on the scene has at least returned some clarity of purpose to a campaign that was starting to get lost in the fog. For now, discussions on less immediate matters--like what shape a post-Taliban government should take or whether states such as Iraq and Syria should be targeted for their past complicity in international terrorism--will be held behind curtains. Domestic politics intruded on grand strategy last week. The more besieged...
Shirzai's calculus--leveraging alliances above and below while handicapping one's enemies--is being repeated on every level of Afghan society as the leaders of the country's numerous tribes peer through the fog of war to glimpse a post-Taliban future. They are not alone. Each of the bordering nations--Iran, Pakistan, China, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan--has its preferred outcome and is working to secure it. Further afield, the U.S. and its allies are waking up to their need for a stable postwar Afghanistan. Without it, U.S. officials say, there is no way to prevent the country...
...Shirzai's calculus?leveraging alliances above and below while handicapping one's enemies?is being repeated on every level of Afghan society as the leaders of the country's numerous tribes peer through the fog of war to glimpse a post-Taliban future. They are not alone. Each of the bordering nations?Iran, Pakistan, China, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan?has its preferred outcome and is working to secure it. Further afield, the U.S. and its allies are waking up to their need for a stable postwar Afghanistan. Without it, U.S. officials say, there is no way to prevent the country...
...Granit cruise missiles will accidentally detonate. Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic for crimes during the war in Croatia. The indictment cites 32 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity during the "ethnic cleansing" of Croatia between August 1991 and June 1992. ITALY Milan Runway Crash In thick fog at Milan?s Linate Airport, a Cessna light aircraft strayed into the path of an accelerating Scandinavian Airlines System passenger jet, which crashed into a baggage hangar and burst into flames. The conflagration, which claimed 118 lives, was Italy?s worst civil aviation accident. According to recordings of conversations with the Milan...
...guessing where bin Laden has made his cave or whether the U.S. will find it will remain a fool's game. But the arrival of ground forces on the scene has at least returned some clarity of purpose to a campaign that was starting to get lost in the fog. For now, discussions on less immediate matters--like what shape a post-Taliban government should take or whether states such as Iraq and Syria should be targeted for their past complicity in international terrorism--will be held behind curtains. Domestic politics intruded on grand strategy last week. The more besieged...