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Sure, there are courses on “Material Life in Early America,” “The Cultural History of the First British Empire,” “The Frontier in Early America” and “Ordinary Lives in Revolutionary America,” but Dartboard doesn’t really care what John Q. Public thought about the Revolution, what settlers in Kentucky were up to or what kind of paintings and chairs the colonists purchased. Dartboard wants to know why the Articles of Confederation were rejected and what the debate...
...Reports from the ground war are looking a lot more promising. Al Jazeera and others report that the Northern Alliance is advancing on the Taliban at Mazar-i-Sharif, and inflicting heavy casualties. Pakistan's Frontier Post believe the Alliance is getting an opportunity to redeem its recent bad rap from the media. Military realities have made it a central cog of the U.S. war effort, the paper argues, and stepped up air support has raised the possibility of the Alliance capturing Mazar before the onset of winter. That "could provide the U.S. forces with a bridgehead or land corridor...
...legendary mujahedin guerrilla who lost his right foot to a land mine while helping rout the Soviets. He left Afghanistan during the post-Soviet power struggle and renounced politics after his wife and son were murdered in his Peshawar, Pakistan, home. But he recently returned to the Afghan frontier, hoping to enlist defectors and warlords in an anti-Taliban southern alliance. Because he was Pashtun--the dominant tribe of southern Afghanistan and the Taliban itself--Haq was a precious asset to the U.S., which desperately wants an erosion of Taliban authority in the south and east, where American commandos have...
Haji Zaman spent years fighting as a mujahedin commander during the anti-Soviet war. But when the Taliban came to power, he scurried into exile in France. Now fortunes are shifting again, and Zaman has come back to the frontier city of Peshawar, Pakistan, to join others looking to grab power after the Taliban falls. Sitting in the shady, walled garden of his villa last week, Zaman said, "We don't need meetings and more meetings. Now we need practical action...
...legendary mujahedin guerrilla who lost his right foot to a land mine while helping rout the Soviets. He left Afghanistan during the post-Soviet power struggle and renounced politics after his wife and son were murdered in his Peshawar, Pakistan, home. But he recently returned to the Afghan frontier, hoping to enlist defectors and warlords in an anti-Taliban southern alliance. Because he was Pashtun--the dominant tribe of southern Afghanistan and the Taliban itself--Haq was a precious asset to the U.S., which desperately wants an erosion of Taliban authority in the south and east, where American commandos have...