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...weapons, CIA intelligence and logistical support—succeeded in forcing the Soviets out of Afghanistan. But when the Cold War ended, the factions that made up the mujahideen turned against themselves in a struggle for power. Common sense suggested that we stay in Afghanistan to clean up the mess we created, but our policymakers in Washington told us that Afghanistan was no longer our problem. As a result, the Taliban emerged triumphant from this civil war and continues to rule Afghanistan with a heavy hand...
Untangling this mess is mind numbing, and that's the idea. "When you look at the people and networks involved, you quickly realize that the apparent lack of structure and seemingly random intersection of operatives is very much intentional," says French terrorism expert Roland Jacquard. "They don't want police to be able to follow one person to another and follow the trail back up to someone calling the shots. In reality, it's a hell of a lot more amorphous than that...
...will never crow over serving eggs laid by her own Araucana hens. Cheryl does not substitute crafts for life, and she has help only once a month or so. In her cozy Manhattan apartment, bikes are parked in the dining room, and the fridge door is a mess of notes, schedules and magnets. "Who can feel at home in a place where the demands for order are exaggerated?" she asks...
Never mind that we got into this pickle pretty much on our own with mindless market speculation in pipe-dream Internet stocks. Now that the mess is eating our futures, we need leadership, and it's easy to pine for the days when Greenspan and Rubin, with trusty sidekick Larry Summers, ran the economic rapids so expertly that TIME dubbed them the Committee to Save the World during 1998's Asian financial crisis...
...time since the Gulf War or perhaps even 1967 or 1948. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. But it's not impossible to envision a different scenario - a feeling in a few months time that our relationship with Israel is what got us into this mess in the first place. That assumption is, of course, ludicrous. The fundamentalist terror groups hate the West and modernism and would despise us even if there had never been an Israel. As Tom Friedman has noted, they don't hate our policies. They hate us. But it would be presumptuous to believe...