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...especially satisfying about the Nobels awarded this year, the 100th anniversary of the prize. The science is comprehensible; the literature is crisp and relevant; and the Peace Prize was given to the organization--and its plain-spoken director--that may have the best chance of bringing some to our fractious world...
...thoughts were well ensconced in the man vs. nature theme—with nature exacting a devilish price for the sheer hubris of man—not deranged and self-righteous men taking the lives of countless innocents. Hijackings were things that happened to airliners of other more fractious nations, or in the decade just prior to my existence—the bleary and shadowy 1970s...
...United Front looks like a ready-made partner, honed by years of battle-tested opposition to the Taliban, resentful of the foreign influence of Osama bin Laden. But if the Front has useful ground-level military capabilities, its feuding leaders, riven by ethnic and religious differences, and fractious makeup spell political peril. Nearly a dozen countries in the region hold a stake in the Front's fortunes, and Pakistan, slated as a prime partner for U.S. military actions, is bitterly opposed to advancing United Front interests. Even Washington officials eager to topple the Taliban wonder just how much good...
...communist regime. Through the prism of the cold war, the U.S. saw a chance to confront its nuclear rival more conventionally on the ground. So the U.S. armed and financed a proxy army. The band of mujahedin, or holy warriors, that the U.S. backed came not just from the fractious, ethnically diverse Afghan tribes but also from cadres of Muslim volunteers--including Osama bin Laden--who saw resistance against the Soviets as a God-ordered defense of Islam. And they won, sending the utterly demoralized Soviet army home...
...communist regime. Through the prism of the cold war, the U.S. saw a chance to confront its nuclear rival more conventionally on the ground. So the U.S. armed and financed a proxy army. The band of mujahedin, or holy warriors, that the U.S. backed came not just from the fractious, ethnically diverse Afghan tribes but also from cadres of Muslim volunteers - including Osama bin Laden - who saw resistance against the Soviets as a God-ordered defense of Islam. And they won, sending the utterly demoralized Soviet army home...