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Exactly. Even before the first American shots have been fired, there is a rapidly emerging peace movement making pre-emptive strikes against military action. In churches and meeting halls, but especially on the college campuses that were centers of antiwar energy in the 1960s, Americans unnerved by the prospect of war have organized so swiftly to oppose it that they don't always have a name for their own organization. Two weeks ago, Judy Miller, 20, helped mobilize other students at Yale as part of a nationwide Day of Action marked by teach-ins and demonstrations at more than...
...prospect of U.S. military operations in what Russia considers its Central Asian backyard has sparked a fierce debate in Moscow's leadership echelons. One faction, believed to include defense minister Sergei Ivanov, resolutely opposes U.S. deployments in Uzbekistan, for fear that the Americans won't leave. But another faction holds that Russia has already lost some of its Central Asian possessions, and instead of trying to hold on against the tide should be cooperating with the Americans to advance Russian interests on a range of other fronts. President Vladimir Putin is believed to lean more to the latter view...
...that prospect has alarmed the State Department, which hopes to accomplish much by words instead of bombs, it positively terrifies some of Washington's allies. The French have been jittery from the start about the Administration's use of the word war, and anything that might turn that war into a contest between "the West" and half the Islamic world makes their blood run cold. A top British diplomat acknowledged that London had heard the case to widen the war but said, "What we see in terms of policy is very measured. We have seen no evidence of hasty rushes...
...Islam is the world's fastest-growing religion. If the evil carnage we witnessed on Sept. 11 were typical of the faith, and Islam truly inspired and justified such violence, its growth and the increasing presence of Muslims in both Europe and the U.S. would be a terrifying prospect. Fortunately, this is not the case...
...religious schools across the border in Pakistan attended by destitute refugees from the 1979-89 war against the Soviet invasion, the Taliban won military and political support from Pakistan. It rose to power by promising peace and order for a country ravaged by corruption and civil war and the prospect of re-establishing traditional majority-Pashtun dominance...