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...over the next three weeks to alter the balance of power between the Taliban and its domestic foes, keeping its special forces poised, through the winter, if necessary, to take advantage of any opportunities offered by such a power shift to go in and get Bin Laden and his henchmen...
...Afghanistan, simply look at Bush’s message to Afghanistan: “If you cough [bin Laden] up and his people today, then we’ll reconsider what we are doing to your country.” So, if bin Laden and his henchmen are handed over to the US, Bush will “reconsider” bombing a country which is already on the verge of total collapse because of an extended famine and ceaseless war? The comment “your country” is also an echo of the doctrine of total...
...near future. Osama bin Laden is the "Evil One" who must be eradicated; this campaign is about a lot more than Osama bin Laden. The Taliban had their chance to do the right thing and must now suffer the consequences; if the Taliban "cough up" bin Laden and his henchmen the U.S. will reconsider its current campaign. Al Qaeda...
...Bush administration, too. It even has the potential to foster unprecedented security cooperation between Washington and such hitherto "untouchable" regimes as Iran and Syria. But there are profound dangers, too. A wider war between the West and the Arab and Muslim world is precisely what Bin Laden and his henchmen are trying to provoke - and what the Bush administration must avoid. It is the tricky quest for allies that will help the U.S. avoid just such a conflagration...
...book backwards, starting with a triple, simultaneous shooting, and then telling each character's backstory in a separate chapter. Taking place in the 1930s or so, "Pistolwhip" uses the conventions of film noir (private detectives, femme fatales, mysterious old men) in its own goofball way. The mastermind's henchmen all inexplicably wear pirate outfits, for example. Or else a woman asks a musician what happened to his band, "The New Ideas." "Eet is a mistake," he says, pulling a gun on her, "Zhere are no New Ideas...