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...economics and philosophy Professor Amartya Sen and Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris economics professor Jean-Paul Fitoussi discussed their research on alternative ways of measuring the success of a society as part of a panel discussion organized by Center for European Studies visiting scholar Éloi Laurent...
...toxic combination of local grievances, Taliban sympathizers, al-Qaeda operatives and professional warlords has taken 39 American lives since 2006. For a few days I based myself at Restrepo, an American firebase perched on a mountain ridge overlooking three of the valley's most important villages. One, called Loi Kolay, had been particularly problematic. Last November the Taliban pulled the village elder out of the mosque and shot him, accusing him of working with the Americans. Then they beheaded his corpse in the village square. Things started going downhill after that. (See pictures from Afghanistan's deadly Korengal Valley...
Later that day we embarked on an operation to Loi Kolay, in part to speak with the villagers, but also to see what we could learn about the morning's attack. Usually we went to Loi Kolay at night because unlike the American soldiers, the Taliban don't have night vision scopes and don't fight in the dark. Far too many day trips to the village ended up with soldiers getting shot at on their way home. But night trips don't lend well to winning hearts and minds, especially if you are kicking down doors in search...
...villagers claimed to know nothing about the shooting coming from Loi Kolay earlier that day. They hadn't seen any strangers in town, they said, and promised to report any suspicious activities. We talked about the village's needs and fielded complaints about the goats that had been killed by mortar fire a few days before. Sergeant First Class Lucas J. Young, who was leading the mission, asked one man what he could do to help the village. "Nothing," he responded. "We don't want anything, just peace." Previous missions had elicited the same response. To Lucas...
...that I didn't even notice a journey that on previous attempts had left me panting at every turn in the switchback trail. I had sweated through my Kevlar. It felt like I had sweated through my plates. It had taken little more than an hour to move from Loi Kolay back to Restrepo, but it felt like days. Within an hour, though, we were back on the move. One of the soldiers, Private first class Matthew Fowler, 24, had ripped open his knee on a rock while sprinting from the humvee to the outpost and he needed medical attention...