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CORRECTION: The Oct. 25 magazine article "A Man of Many Hats" provided the incorrect location for Mira Loma High School. It is located in Northern California, not Southern California, as the article stated...
...base inside Pakistan highlighted the potential domestic crisis General Musharraf faces for offering his support. Not surprisingly, the general is urging the U.S. to end its bombing campaign by Ramadan. The same demand has been echoed at the opposite end of the region's political spectrum, by the Northern Alliance. And there is little doubt that if bombs are falling on Afghanistan during the Muslim holy month that begins on November 17, there will be a sharp uptick in anti-American anger around the Muslim world...
...Even then, the battle plan is far from simple: Washington may want the Northern Alliance to march on Kabul, but the U.S. does not want the opposition group to actually capture it. That's because the alliance is composed primarily of fighters from the Uzbek, Tajik and Hazari minorities and would be unable to create a stable government without the consent of the Pashtun, the largest of Afghanistan's ethnic groups. The Taliban's membership is exclusively Pashtun, but it is far from representative of all Pasthun, and Washington had hoped that the bombing campaign would create significant defections from...
...Despite having to balance the competing interests of its allies in Pakistan and the Northern Alliance, the U.S. may ultimately be inclined to let the Alliance go on the offensive (with one foot on the brake) in the hope of accelerating the disintegration of the Taliban regime. The recapture of the northern town of Mazari al-Sharif from the Taliban and an advance on Kabul would certainly strike psychological blows that could potentially peel away Taliban supporters. But the Northern Alliance has so far made heavy weather of the drive to recapture its former northern stronghold at Mazari al-Sharif...
...ground to hold their lines into the winter. Even if they lose Mazari al-Sharif, they're unlikely to be routed before then. And while the winter snows that are expected within weeks won't preclude U.S. air strikes and special forces operations, they may prevent a decisive Northern Alliance offensive before next spring. Ramadan, too, will make it more difficult for the U.S. to maintain its air campaign for fear of jeopardizing both its coalition and its political objectives inside Afghanistan. And the humanitarian crisis that sees millions facing starvation will intensify with the onset of winter, adding...