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On Wednesday night the bandits came, brandishing rifles and flashing knives. In Kandahar's outer suburb of Manan Medical, 15 men smashed doors at one mudbrick house after another. Shir Mohammed's weaponless neighbors were robbed with blades to their throats. At 3 a.m. the thieves were at his house...
It is, once again, bandit country. Cars on the empty mountain roads scuff up enough dust to be seen a half hour away. Around any turn a posse of hungry villagers or unpaid soldiers could wait with Kalashnikovs. Harried peasants live almost exactly as they did 500 years ago - beggared...
While the concept of a domestic commander may seem natural in a post-September world, it is actually a radical departure for the military. The Pentagon has mostly stayed away from the job of defending American cities and suburbs, leaving it to local cops, fire fighters and haz-mat teams...
But the idea of fiddling with the Posse Comitatus Act worries civil libertarians. While F-16s patrolling over New York City and Washington may reassure some, the notion of soldiers in fatigues carrying M-16s at the Mall of America may not have the same effect. Tim Edgar, legislative counsel...
Decked out in his ceremonial orange robe, Yan Ming is standing impossibly erect on a dusty road outside the city of Dengfeng in China's central Henan province, preparing to usher 40 of his students into the stadium that's hosting the nation's most important martial arts festival. Behind...