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...latest in a long line to address situations, from South Africa to Tibet, for which the city felt it needed a foreign policy. By the time it was passed, it had been watered down to a call to "break the cycle of violence" by bringing the bombing to a halt "as soon as possible." Even then, the vote was deeply divided. But diluting the resolution made no difference. Thousands of boycott threats started pouring in to the place that practically taught America how to boycott. "We're getting e-mails saying, 'I'm not going to spend another dime...
...rank-and-file members some alternative to going down with the ship. As Secretary Powell put it last week, "You can't ethnically cleanse Afghanistan after this is over. You can't export them." All you can hope for, perhaps, is that Afghanistan has a good, enduring reason to halt its most threatening export...
...capital soaring through an increasingly borderless world. New technologies in communication and transportation whisked us, and our voices and documents, farther and faster than we had dreamed possible a few years earlier. But then as summer slipped into fall, an act of terrorism sparked a human catastrophe that would halt trade and other peaceful international exchanges for years...
...Within Israel's army, just as on the right-wing of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's cabinet, there's a substantial body of opinion that believes the tanks and troops that spent last week deep in Palestinian territory won't halt terrorist attacks against Israelis. Under pressure from the U.S., which wants quiet in the West Bank so it can preserve some degree of cooperation from Muslim states in its Afghanistan campaign, Israel said it would pull out of the towns as soon as Arafat's security forces would agree to fill the void. But the army doesn't believe...
...Taliban's would-be successors. Ankara's Turkish Daily News carries a lively account of the sit-down in Pakistan among mostly Pashtun mujahedeen leaders hoping to forge a "southern alliance" against the Taliban (and the Northern Alliance, whom many Pashtuns distrust). The delegates urged the U.S. to halt its bombing campaign on the grounds that this was supposedly consolidating Pashtun support for the Taliban. They'd prefer to bring down the Taliban by coaxing its supporters away. And they want a Muslim force to keep the peace (Turkey being the prime candidate). And from the paper's discussion...