Word: mistrustfulness
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...decades of fighting, suspicion and betrayal are still the guiding principles for any smart operator. "No alliance ever lasts for long," explains a Dostum aide. That only underscores how difficult it will be for negotiators, who gather this week in Bonn's Hotel Petersberg, to get over years of mistrust. The U.S. proposal is for a loose central government composed of an executive council run by 10 to 20 warlords and other political personages. Such a preservation of the status quo is unlikely to bring stability, even if the Afghans accepted it. The Pashtun suspect the Northern Alliance wants only...
...unifying force in this maelstrom of violence and mistrust is the memory of Massoud. For all anti-Taliban Afghans, the latest chapter in their bloody history began not on Sept. 11, but two days earlier. Everything that has happened since is seen as guided by his ghostly hand. "As soon as Massoud was martyred, the attacks happened in America and Pakistan withdrew its support from the Taliban," says Abdul Saboor, 35, a fighter pilot who carries a case of Massoud memorabilia with him. "The innocence of his unjust death spread across the world and started the defeat of the Taliban...
...rigged slot machine. The early-'90s recession saw downsized professionals pursuing the simple life and a New York City doctor finding quirky meaning in Alaska on Northern Exposure.) But this backlash isn't about just money. It's about a general cultural exhaustion, about moving from post-Vietnam mistrust of institutions (The X-Files) to respect for them (The West Wing), from surrogate families (Seinfeld) to flawed but richly explored ones (The Sopranos). Above all, it is about rediscovering community in a culture that lionized the individual. Even the dark drama Six Feet Under features a gay character finding solace...
Kalb said he felt then, and still believes now, that this was not a news story and that the current constant stream of negative reporting about politicians’ personal lives has contributed to the public’s mistrust of the government and inspired the notion the politicians are by nature corrupt...
Today, even among many educated, Westernized Arabs who admire American pop culture, "America is seen as the evil behind all the problems in the Middle East," says Abdul Rahman al Rashed, editor of the influential Saudi-owned newspaper Al Sharq al Awsat. Many instinctively mistrust the U.S. and refuse to believe an Arab could have carried out the attacks, in part because, they claim, the U.S. has failed to bring proof against bin Laden to the Arab media. This absence creates fertile ground for his views, even among those who would not endorse his acts. "I found bin Laden strangely...