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Michael A. Pearson, a senior INS official, testified to Congress on Tuesday that, of the 12,338 people detained along the nation’s northern border this past year, only two-thirds voluntarily chose to return home. One would assume that the rest of the undocumented immigrants were not allowed to enter...
...Shepherding the men with gunsAmerica has certainly made up for lost time. Thanks to a concerted bombing campaign and active support for Northern Alliance ground forces, the Taliban regime that harbored bin Laden is no more. Soon, the same will probably be true for the terrorist himself and many of his acolytes. And Washington has undertaken to help the Afghan people with humanitarian aid and support for a new, broad-based government. But it's already clear that the men with the guns are looking to decide the shape of the future, their sense of entitlement deepened by their proxy...
...good intentions. We do not intend to bomb civilians, but we do it. We do not intend to starve millions of people, but we do it. We do not intend to make war on Muslims, but we do it. One hopes the recent successes of the Northern Alliance will prompt Washington to stop trampling on a country that has already been trampled on by 25 years of warfare. Otherwise, we will be the most benevolent perpetrators of genocide history has ever known...
When the Taliban lost this capital of northern Afghanistan, they set the pattern for the war. After days of relentless pounding by American bombers, the Islamic militia simply had no stomach for a fight...
...Northern Alliance attacked in earnest on Friday night, and the Afghan Taliban soldiers immediately switched sides, while their commanders jumped into pickup trucks and sped south. Only the "tourists" - the term Alliance soldiers use for the foreign zealots who make up the most committed of their enemy's ranks - chose to make a stand. Pockets of Uzbeks, Chechens and Pakistanis held out for up to five days before they were overcome or picked off by snipers...