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...Taliban Thrives" [Sept. 7]: Our involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan is comparable to placing one's hand in a pail of water. When you stick your hand into the water, you create an effect. When you pull it out, the water returns to its original state. While we occupy those countries, we suffer casualties and financial disaster. Once we leave, everything will return to the way it was before: tribal wars, Muslim traditions and culture. We will have accomplished nothing. You cannot change thousand-year-old cultures into democratic states in a few years. It takes decades, even centuries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

Moreover, the proposed shield was impractical and overly ambitious. Recent intelligence reports have shown that Iran isn’t developing the long-range missiles that the Eastern European missile shield could have protected against. The new plan, on the other hand, addresses the imminent threat that a nuclear Iran poses, which come mainly from low- to medium-range missiles. Intelligence has reported that Iranians have developed missiles with empty spaces in them that can hold nuclear devices. This new system can protect Israel and Eastern Europe from such Iranian missiles in a cheaper and more efficient manner...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Putting Misguided Missiles Back on Track | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

...this matter, liberals and conservatives clash. Harvard Right to Life, which opposes abortion, finds its posters torn down. The True Love Revolution, which advocates abstinence, was denied permission to hand out flyers outside “Sex Signals.” Both sides conflict because liberals say that no lifestyle is better than another, while conservatives argue that the traditional lifestyle—the two-parent household—when possible, is best. They do so not merely to criticize other living arrangements, but to highlight the traditional lifestyle’s advantages...

Author: By Brian J. Bolduc | Title: The Culture War | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

...better, and Mack was less than two seconds behind second-place finisher Alexandra Lizzarib of Kent State. Senior Caitlin Clifford finished 29th to round out the top five and give Harvard its best ever finish at the Meet of Champions. While the Crimson youth clearly had a hand in the team’s win, Harvard coach Jason Saretsky also gave credit to the seniors, who provided a key veteran presence. “I’m pleased with how the team performed,” Saretsky said. “We had a number of upperclassmen out there...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Women Shine at Van Cortland Park | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

...Tajik vote in the north; Karzai the Pashtun vote in the south. Abdullah's ties to the late warrior-poet, Ahmed Shah Masood, killed by al-Qaeda a few days before 9/11, help Abdullah's support in the north because Tajiks revere Masood as an exemplary leader who single-handedly held off the Soviets and the Taliban. On the other hand, Abdullah's Masood connection is a turnoff to many Pashtun tribesmen, who viewed Masood as just another troublesome warlord. It doesn't matter that Abdullah's father was a Pashtun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Karzai's Rival Abdullah Won't Budge on Runoff | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

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