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...interrogation. An army officer intercedes and gains our release two hours later; he gestures apologetically at the ISI man, who is fuming over our good luck. The officer cautions: "You know, this intelligence man is quite ignorant--but dangerous. He could have taken you away and done great harm to you. Nobody would have known until it was too late...
...Even with hindsight, it can be hard to determine whether a particular alliance of convenience has done more good than harm. The rise of the Taliban is one of the thorniest examples. Massive American and Saudi supplies of arms and money went to various mujahedin groups in the 1980s, making Afghanistan the U.S.S.R.'s Vietnam. (It also created the conditions for armed and militant religious movements in Afghanistan and Pakistan.) When the Russians left, Pakistan fostered the rise of the Taliban, which was viewed with equanimity by the U.S. Washington hoped the group would end Afghanistan's civil...
TIME: What are the roots of the anger? Moussa: The new world order is not pleasing anybody. There were demonstrations in Seattle, Durban, Genoa, Bangkok. The way things are being done, the policy of double standards, is doing a lot of harm. It is not only the Palestinian issue. Everybody is protesting...
...been proven to be the perpetrtators. If they want our help concerning military action, military bases, soldiers or anything of the sort, then the world has to be consulted. The best thing, if there is evidence, is to get bin Laden and try him. Attacking the Afghans will harm a lot of innocent people which we want to avoid...
...that the first and only significant student-organized rally on this campus in the aftermath of that horrible tragedy was organized by The Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice (HIPJ). To be sure, the HIPJ had the best of intentions. According to their rhetoric, there’s no harm in spreading the erudite gospel of the university to the public at large. As HIPJ members point out, we might be just 21 years old, but we are 21-year-old students. And we aren’t just students, we are Harvard students. Impressive...