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...policy in Afghanistan. Though there are about 9,000 U.S. troops still in theater, they are hunkered down in a defensive crouch. Such genuine peacekeeping as is being done--and given the tendencies of its warlords, peace in Afghanistan is never easily kept--is in the hands of the non-American soldiers in the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), whose leadership is about to pass from Turkey to a joint German-Dutch command. Until very recently, the Pentagon seemed anything but keen to see ISAF's mission extended beyond Kabul, to which it is limited. Yet if a new Afghan...
...said each human being leaves an “ecological footprint” on the environment, which is the measure of the land destroyed by human consumption. Each American destroys 10 acres of land per year, he said, while each non-American destroys 2.5 acres...
What might have saved this volume from its horrible insipidness would be the ability not just to gawk, but to explain, not to report, but to interpret, and interpret wisely. Laxer does not explain to the non-American world what logic goes into these depraved activities—and not because things like love of guns, desire for blood and a hankering for Big Macs are wholly irrational...
What might have saved this volume from its horrible insipidness would be the ability not just to gawk, but to explain, not to report, but to interpret, and interpret wisely. Laxer does not explain to the non-American world what logic goes into these depraved activities—and not because things like love of guns, desire for blood and a hankering for Big Macs are wholly irrational...
Prior to this season, there had never been a non-american finalists in the awards brief three year history...