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...military civil-reconstruction teams into the mountainous provinces where they can disarm the warlords and build roads, schools and clinics. Armor-plated aid is needed to thrust into the southern and eastern regions where Taliban rebels find it easy to recruit Pashtun tribesmen who have received little relief from international agencies. Western diplomats in Kabul say that, at most, the Taliban, along with their allies al-Qaeda and renegade commander Gulbuddin Hek-matyar, are capable of harassing coalition and Afghan forces but not of conquering back towns and provinces...
...That's why executives from India to the Philippines are greeting President Bush's re-election with a huge sigh of relief. During Bush's last term, the outsourcing industry in Asia grew at an astonishing rate. Tata Consultancy Services, India's largest exporter of software services, saw its revenues surge 44% between July and September this year, compared with the same period last year; revenues at Infosys, another major Indian tech firm, grew 51%. Many U.S. companies aren't just sending call-center jobs and low-end software programming abroad; they're using India's enormous pool of highly...
...Americans feel a sense of relief when they complete a four-year political cycle and elect a new President. But Asians, for their part, are focused on a 40-year goal of renewal and renaissance. They are relieved that Bush was re-elected. They do not have to face the trauma of educating a new President. But they expect more from a Bush than a Kerry. Without the pressure of re-election, Bush should pursue wiser long-term policies to regain the goodwill sadly lost in recent years...
...paper their yards with signs or make calls at night or write a check to a candidate for the first time ever or offer to drive an elderly neighbor to the polls. Given the questions on the table--war and peace, freedom and safety--it ought to be a relief to see so many Americans come out of their little gated tribal compounds and engage in the fateful debate, hand to hand, door to door...
...most immediate challenge that will face either man as President--how to buttress a credibly elected Iraqi government in the face of a ruthless insurgency--won't bend to a quick fix. Both Kerry and Bush argue that a rapid turnover of combat duties to Iraqis would provide relief to U.S. troops, but that objective may take years to achieve. Though Kerry hopes to pull U.S. forces out by the end of his first term, the danger that Iraq could descend into terrorism-torn anarchy and sectarian strife means that the U.S. will maintain its current presence...