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...main or even proximate cause of such suffering, it is also true that America is the richest nation on earth and Afghanistan one of the poorest. A large measure of generosity--aid, medicine, a program to remove the land mines that keep Afghan fields untilled and maim Afghan children--can prolong the smiles on the faces of those liberated in the past two weeks. There must be no replay of America's thoughtlessness in 1989, when, after the defeated Soviet forces marched across the Oxus River, Washington dropped Afghanistan like a used tissue...
Afghanistan is literally the world's largest minefield - there are some 10 million anti-personnel and anti-tank mines hidden there, which maim or kill more than 20 Afghans a day. And President Bush's stirring speech on Thursday suggests that the administration's campaign to eliminate the Bin Laden terror scourge involves navigating a figurative minefield every bit as dangerous...
...Omen NATO scientists are developing a grenade that uses nonpolluting explosives. It will still kill and maim people, but do less harm to the ground when it detonates...
...want to humble an empire it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and burn, it tells us we are not so powerful and we can't be safe. The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, planted at the base of Manhattan island with the Statue of Liberty as their sentry, and the Pentagon, a squat, concrete fort on the banks of the Potomac, are the sanctuaries of money and power that our enemies may imagine define us. But that assumes our faith rests on what...
...want to humble an empire it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and burn, it tells us we are not so powerful and we can't be safe. The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, planted at the base of Manhattan island with the Statue of Liberty as their sentry, and the Pentagon, a squat, concrete fort on the banks of the Potomac, are the sanctuaries of money and power that our enemies may imagine define us. But that assumes our faith rests on what...