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Still, the sweep was a decisive consolidation of Musharraf's power and a first step toward reversing more than two decades of Islamization in the 550,000-man army. It's now less likely anyone inside the military can sabotage or ignore Musharraf's pro-Western policies, leaving him freer to pursue his oft-stated goal of transforming Pakistan into a progressive Islamic state...
...Still, the sweep was a decisive consolidation of Musharraf's power and a first step toward reversing more than two decades of Islamization in the 550,000-man army. It's now less likely anyone inside the military can sabotage or ignore Musharraf's pro-Western policies, leaving him freer to pursue his oft-stated goal of transforming Pakistan into a progressive Islamic state...
...Although they've promised wholesale cooperation with the U.S. against Osama Bin Laden's netoworks - which, after all, are dedicated to overthrowing pro-Western regimes throughout the Arab world - the Arab allies have insisted that Washington provide political cover by intervening more forcefully to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This week's sharp uptick in violence in the West Bank and Gaza may portend trouble for some of the Arab alliance partners if it precedes U.S. military strikes in Afghanistan. But their load is lightened, somewhat, by the fact that the primary form of cooperation the U.S. needs from them...
...Contemporary political Islam first exploded onto the world stage in 1979 with the Iranian revolution, which destabilized the politics of the Islamic world for almost two decades. That outcome was caused, in part, by the fact that the authoritarianism of Iran's pro-Western monarch, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, tolerated no democratic challenge to his regime...
...based on the premise that terror strikes can force the U.S. to withdraw its military presence from the Middle East and Gulf, particularly his native Saudi Arabia. And that, as he sees it, would critically weaken the powers in the region he most detests - Israel and pro-Western Arab regimes such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. Last week's terror strikes are part of a long-term campaign begun by Bin Laden as early as 1993, rather than simply a response to U.S. policy towards Iraq or Israel. Both issues have generated intense anti-American anger across the Arab...