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...Middle East and Asia, who have fallen over themselves to provide religious justifications for an anti-American jihad. This is not a new phenomenon: revolutionary movements have always found their leaders among discontented middle and upper class types. Think of Danton and Robespierre; think of Lenin and Pol Pot...
...events from 360 degrees of interpretation. Only then will we be able to grasp what is going on, make a decision as to its appropriateness and fulfill our duties as citizens by holding the government accountable in the next election cycle. Granted, now is not time for the pot-shots and humorous jabs that were common to critics of the Bush administration prior to Sept. 11. Indeed, one has to look very hard to find the hyper-critical tone usually so common to the media. Now is instead the time for serious, thoughtful critiques of that administration?...
...grunge hip, Urban Outfitters, just around the corner. Nor would the surburban gauntlet of Bruegger’s Bagels, Starbucks and the Tennis Shop seem particularly anything if the unapologetically sketchy 7-11, with outspoken panhandlers in tow, was not immediately adjacent. Harvard Square is like a melting pot with the heat turned off, the Great Strip Mall of the Ivy League...
...contrast, few good words can be found for the decade of Chinese, Western and Thai support for the Khmer Rouge following Vietnam's invasion of Cambodia. Compared with Pol Pot's regime, the Taliban is a model of humanitarianism. And at the start of a global war on terrorism, the U.S. won't want to remember its sponsorship of the contras in Nicaragua; or, as it's courting support from the most populous Muslim country on the planet, Indonesia, to be reminded of its 1958 support for the rebellion against Indonesia's infuriatingly nonaligned President Sukarno...
...Third, cold war politics made for some strange bedfellows and unsavory alliances. The unintended consequences of gunshot weddings can be considerable: America's support, say, for various tin-pot despots in the name of anticommunism was not the stuff of greatness. But it is not possible to rule out working with the enemies of one's enemies, even if they are sometimes themselves illiberal and undemocratic. Already, for example, the U.S. Congress is reconsidering the policy that made it difficult for intelligence agencies to hire foreign agents with violent pasts. And it is not at all impossible that, say, Iran...