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Audiences are so used to movies' easy seductions, with big jokes and jolts, that they may misread or discard the picture's potent message: that some things about ourselves are so painful to acknowledge, we almost wish we could cut them out of our skulls. This, and not the plot gimmickry, is what must have lured Scorsese to Shutter Island: the chance to leave audiences with an illuminating emptiness...
While the true strategic import of the Marjah offensive may take months to determine, Baradar's capture is hugely and immediately significant. Baradar, an Afghan, was the head of the Taliban's military council and the mastermind of the insurgents' bloody and relentless campaign against NATO and Afghan forces. A trusted friend of Omar's, Baradar may well know where the Taliban's spiritual leader is hiding. Pakistani intelligence and the CIA kept Baradar's capture secret for a week, giving interrogators a chance to investigate the network of contacts in his possession before the Taliban realized he had been...
...fraught cooperation between Washington and Islamabad on counterterrorism. Until now, Pakistan was reluctant to help the U.S. hunt down the Taliban's leadership, with whom it had close ties before 9/11. But the Taliban's militancy has spawned terrorism inside Pakistan, and the country's military and political leaders may have finally realized that they cannot get rid of homegrown terrorists without cracking down on the jihadis' Afghan brethren...
With regard to the Senate as a whole, we congratulate the body for working incrementally toward change. As the stalling of health-care reform has shown, major overhaul may be difficult or impossible to achieve under the current state of affairs. Given this reality, passing many small-scale bills may be the best way forward. However, if they hope to create a noticeable impact, senators must move quickly to pass a number of additional, minor bills. While any progress is better than none at all, it remains disappointing that the factional atmosphere polluting Washington today makes larger change unlikely...
...anytime you can get a win early in the season, you’ll take it,” Crimson coach John Tillman said. “There’s some guarded optimism. There are some things that we need to do much better. As much as you may be disappointed in certain things, we’re excited, because if we continue to work and focus on some areas, we can get a lot better...