Word: fundamentalistism
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...Afghanistan's future. Although U.S. ground troops saw their first publicized combat engagements over the weekend, their objectives are limited - to gather intelligence that may help eventually capture or kill Osama Bin Laden, and to accelerate the collapse of the Taliban regime by signaling to its fighters that the fundamentalist militia is unable to protect its territory from U.S. attack. By the array of forces it has assembled around Afghanistan, it is plain that the U.S. is not planning to launch a full-blown invasion, instead focusing on expanded special operations of the type seen around Kandahar over the weekend...
Armstrong focused her segment on the word “fundamentalist...
Graham said that in reality many religious leaders oppose to the state, and in return political leaders only pay lip service to them. “Most fundamentalist groups are focused less on political revolution, but on seeing social change,” he said...
...from Afghanistan following its defeat for fear that if the country is plunged back into civil war it will remain a breeding ground of terrorism. But stabilizing a post-Taliban regime in Kabul may prove to be as perilous, if not more so, than the effort to overthrow the fundamentalist militia. The reason is simply that the enmities that have torn apart Afghanistan run far deeper than the excesses of the Taliban, and the West has little to work with by way of established alternative political forces on the ground...
...succeed in this war, the extent to which its allies in the Islamic world are prepared to contribute will be an essential factor. Bin Laden’s cause, like most fundamentalist ideals, greatly relies on its impact on people’s minds: defeating the religious raison d’etre of his cause will surely contribute to the fall of his terrorist empire. If the American administration is capable of convincing the Islamic governments and the general public of the validity of its cause, and succeeds in doing so, then this other war, this mental war, will...