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Then there's plain ineptitude. Afghan police and military personnel say that the young men the Taliban recruit to be suicide bombers are regularly "deranged, retarded, mentally unstable or on drugs," according to Williams. That's a view shared by Waheed Muzhda, an Afghan political analyst. "The suicide bombers don't have enough knowledge of how and exactly when to detonate themselves," Muzhda, a former foreign ministry official during the Taliban regime, told TIME. "Most of them are not educated. It has happened many times that these suicide bombers' explosives detonate before they reach the target. The result...
...heartless end. And yet from the start, the deaths of the five Americans were also shrouded in mystery. The attack took place in Karbala, a Shi'ite holy city of roughly 1 million people that had been one of the safest in Iraq for U.S. troops. It happened in plain sight of Iraqi police the Americans had been assigned to train. The killers wore U.S.-style uniforms, suggesting a catastrophic lapse of security --or the possibility that the enemy operation had actually been an inside...
...What's needed is not the sloganeering of certain politicians but a clear-eyed, multifaceted policy. That would involve making plain to the Iraqi government our intention to pull back, followed by an orderly withdrawal of about half the 160,000 troops currently in Iraq by the middle of 2008. A force of 50,000 to 100,000 troops would dig in for a longer stay to protect America's most vital interests: denying al- Qaeda a safe haven and preventing an almost inevitable civil war from spilling into neighboring countries. At the same time, the reduction...
...outrage from citizens and tourists, Barcelona's city council passed a resolution opposing bullfighting. The picture of the young bullfighter and the young bull shows one being who has the choice of participating and another that has no choice and is ultimately always the loser. That is just plain wrong. Susan Hargreaves, JUPITER, FLORIDA...
...looked at food changed radically. Rather than accounting for taste, I analyzed everything in terms of potential cost versus potential fullness. That jar of jelly? Like eating money—better stick to plain peanut butter. Go to the gym? Might make me hungrier afterwards. I even opted out of the house meal budget so as not to waste my small savings on luxuries like spices and meat. Frozen meals were for the well-heeled and well-fed. Finding a granola bar in my suitcase was an occasion for outright celebration...