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...Fulus port, 20 miles south of Basra, Bassem Saghair deftly works the controls of a crane as he unloads air-conditioning units from the hold of the Hussaini. The ship is one of a dozen crowding the waterfront that have sailed from Dubai up the Shatt al-Arab River laden with consumer goods. Saghair, 15, quit school for this job, which pays $360 a month, double the highest salary any Iraqi official earns from U.S.-occupation authorities. "Life is not bad," says Saghair, with a shy smile spreading under the beginnings of a mustache...
...That night, I described the scene to a couple of male journalists who had been regaling me with tales of their hunt for Osama bin Laden with the U.S. Army. One of these battle-hardened reporters surprised me by saying, wistfully, "I wish I could have seen that." I realized that while I could easily go out on the next Army operation, my male colleagues would probably never get a chance to discover how Afghan women live behind closed doors...
...Egypt is a good illustration of President Bush's point that the absence of channels for democratic political participation in Arab states has helped foster terrorism, which has eventually been exported. Osama Bin Laden may be Saudi, but most of the top-tier al-Qaeda leadership at the time of 9/11 were veterans of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, a militant offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood that turned to terrorism in response to the Sadat regime's peace treaty with Israel, and found hundreds of willing recruits in Egypt's middle class and in its officer corps. The Brotherhood, of course...
...argument against the U.S. simply leaving Iraq is based on the notion that to do so would just encourage more terrorism. Hasty retreats from Lebanon in 1985 and Somalia in 1993 are Exhibit A and B in Osama bin Laden's argument that despite its overwhelming military power, the U.S. runs when its nose is bloodied. The converse, however, may also be true: That the continued presence of U.S. occupation forces in Iraq fuels an anti-American insurgency there and swells the ranks of Islamist terror networks worldwide. Or, as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld put in his internal Defense Department...
...takes a lot to get a Harvard student’s attention. From annoying Undergraduate Council hopefuls to cookie-laden tablers in the dining halls to the psych students willing to dish out $15 an hour for undergraduate subjects, those who want a little bit of our time have to resort to outright bribery. It might be frustrating, but council candidates who have to go door to door handing out cigars or IOP activists who hold dinner discussions that somehow attract a lot of hungry students are just doing what they have to do. People might not respond to some...