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...lethal nature of its enemies, is it easier or harder for the President to stand before the United Nations and the American people and defend a plan to continue that war by launching another one? A year after 9/11, does Bush have to prove some connection between Saddam and Osama bin Laden, or is it enough that since that day, Americans have the dark imagination to see what an enemy can do to destroy us? With each new speech, each meeting with congressional leaders, each Op-Ed salvo, the Administration is speaking to a curious and conflicted public. Is this...
While Afghanistan has no shortage of warlords looking to make their mark, the possibility that the Kabul blast was linked to the attempt on Karzai suggests the work of a coordinated network. Karzai said Rahman was "definitely a member of al-Qaeda." But government authorities believe that Osama bin Laden's decimated forces in Afghanistan are not acting alone. Afghan intelligence officials say al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters have forged links with guerrillas loyal to Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the ruthless former Prime Minister who fled Afghanistan after the Taliban seized power in 1996. Afghan and Western officials believe that since slipping...
...jail, Siddique and Mahmood remained fully committed to militancy. They spouted the usual radical rhetoric: the West was trying to crush Islam, Osama bin Laden was a hero, martyrdom led to everlasting life. Their only regret, said the men, was that they were caught alive. "Mujahedin wait for justice and reward in the other world," intoned Siddique...
...Kosovo. "We wouldn't exist." Perhaps the biggest benefit of U.S. involvement over the past decade is the message it has sent to the Islamic world that the U.S. can be on Muslims' side. Until the Americans stepped in, Bosnia was a celebrated cause for anti-Western extremists like Osama bin Laden. Dozens of al-Qaeda recruits cut their teeth in the Bosnian war. That the region did not become a hotbed of militant Islam is thanks in part to U.S. intervention. But the battle for hearts and minds isn't over. "America's national interests are in the Balkans...
Fourth, it's hard to be rational about the irrational. Who can guess intelligently what Osama bin Laden might want to try next? How can you discourage a suicide bomber who is looking forward to being dead after killing you? Irrationality holds a treasured place in game theory, the branch of economics dedicated to strategic questions of this sort. Game theory's great insight is that irrationality can be an asset. If you can convince the world that you're nuts--and the surest way to do that is to be nuts--your behavior becomes impossible to predict or control...