Word: moderatesized
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They are about to find out. At the beginning of the air campaign, the Administration carefully calibrated the war to mesh with diplomatic efforts aimed at cobbling together a successor government to the Taliban. But that political alchemy can't be ordered off the shelf. The West must first broker...
But who are these supposed moderates? Just last week speculation arose that Jalaluddin Haqqani, the Taliban's popular southern military commander and a celebrated fighter against the Soviets, was playing both sides and had journeyed to Pakistan to negotiate a possible role in a broad-based future Afghan government. Haqqani...
Political conflicts involving legitimate political movements and their extreme political terrorist offshoots have been resolved successfully by bringing the political moderates into a position where they have more to gain by participating in a democratic political process than by implicitly allowing extremists to wage war (as Muslim leaders do when...
So, and perhaps this is crazy, we should, at the end of this military action, participate in a truly democratic U.N., showing ourselves to be in good faith committed to democracy on a global level. And perhaps we should seek to empower in this process the political moderates of the...
We have seen (Palestine) what happens when the political wing is handed over to the extremists because moderates seem powerless to effect change (whether or not that is the fault of the moderates or their political opponents).