Word: guerrillas
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...anyone who has been clinging to the notion that America can win this war the easy way, the fate of Abdul Haq should serve as a powerful antidote. Few knew how to fight in the rugged Afghan steppes and summits better than Haq, a 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...
...tactics have not worked. A year into the intifada, it is showing no signs of being exhausted or contained by Israeli military action. More alarming for Washington, Sharon's actions have significantly weakened Arafat politically and strengthened his more radical challengers who hope to follow the Hezbollah model of guerrilla warfare, rather than negotiations, to get Israel out of the West Bank and Gaza...
...cruise missiles and bombers are not going to solve this problem," said Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld last week. In an assessment of the Soviet Union's defeat in Afghanistan written for the U.S. Army in 1996, a retired Afghan general and his American co-author were blunt. "A guerrilla war," they wrote, "is not a war of technology against peasantry. Rather, it is a contest of endurance and national will. The side with the greatest moral commitment will hold the ground...Tactics for conventional war will not work...
...undermine his ability to show Palestinians that what was achieved by negotiating with Israel in the Oslo process was an end to Israel's occupation of those areas. Those perceptions ultimately reinforce the claims of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other militants who oppose a resumption of negotiations and advocate guerrilla war. Still, Israeli public opinion right now is far closer to Sharon's take on Araft than to that of Peres. All of which is bad news for Washington, but which may give bin Laden reason to smile. Then again, an open spat with Israel over its actions against Palestinians...
...They do not seem to be aiming with any precision - most guidance systems have been taken out by the bombing of Kabul. Instead they seem to be groping blindly through the sky, in the general direction of a plane, which circled unconcerned, high above our heads. A local guerrilla, a sort of village idiot with an RPG (rocket propelled grenade), climbed out the trench and did a clumsy pantomime, pretending in the full view of the Taliban to be shooting down the plane with his rocket propelled grenade. Suddenly there was an explosion in the distance, but for the first...