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...immediate fog of war. More troubling is the occasional whiff of deception, incompetence or economy with truth. Recently, U.S. officials made classic, self-defeating errors. When the Taliban produced jerky video of a helicopter undercarriage marked "Boeing," the Pentagon dismissed it, citing the Taliban?s "completely outrageous . . . outright lies" and "exaggerations." The next day, it admitted the undercarriage of a Blackhawk helicopter was ripped off flying at low level. At first, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld insisted there was "absolutely no evidence" that the U.S. mistakenly bombed a military hospital in Herat. Turns out he was wrong. Undiscriminating contempt for Taliban...
With a victory, Harvard would claim at least a share of their first league title since 1997. A win over Yale next week would then give the Crimson the title outright and its first perfect season since...
With a victory, Harvard would claim at least a share of their first league title since 1997. A win over Yale next week would then give the Crimson the title outright and its first perfect season since...
...additional danger for American forces entering Afghanistan is that resentment of the U.S.'s perceived disengagement from the plight of the alliance will fester into outright opposition toward any American meddling in Afghan affairs. "We do not need the Americans to help us anymore," says Mohammed Farazi, an operational commander with alliance forces in the Dast-e-Qale region. "They should let us fix our country by ourselves." Aid workers from Kabul told TIME that a sense of disillusionment is growing there too with the way the U.S. has handled the war. "People are stunned to see nothing is happening...
...likes the idea of the pharmaceutical industry profiting off of a biological attack. But pharmaceutical development is immensely expensive, and the govenment cannot create effective medicines by fiat. Until the U.S. has sufficient government-funded research to combat bioweapons effectively, ignoring patents outright will only increase the danger from future attacks—attacks for which drugs will not be developed...