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...need to think about what happens in the meantime—5, 10 and 15 years from now,” Thompson says. “We want to make sure that when we move activities in the short-run, we don’t damage the long-run plans...
...launched some short-run efforts in Afghanistan, aimed not so much at larger ideological points as at proving our niceness and making the country friendlier when U.S. soldiers come in. Commando Solo, an Air Force cargo plane converted into a $70 million flying radio and TV station, will broadcast messages to Afghan citizens that the attacks are aimed not at them but at the Taliban. TIME has learned that the CIA is providing portable radios that will be air-dropped or trucked in so Afghans can listen to what Commando Solo is broadcasting. An Army PSYOPS unit has printed hundreds...
...Egypt: their political volatility and the presence of small but significant fundamentalist groups inside their territories have led many to have misgivings about, or reluctantly accept, these last-minute alliances. Moreover, some have utterly denounced these covenants by predicting the potentially dangerous consequences they might bring in the short-run. Re-arming or collaborating with these “volatile” regimes is perceived as an unwise military strategy, for the ever-changing political fate of those states could suddenly turn them from being well-armed friends to potentially deadly foes...
Both in the short-run and the long-run, college students, collectively, have enormous spending power...
...Obviously, Western `Goebbels' machinery tries in short runs and with shock therapy to achieve a moment effect on TV in order to provide some more points for the political top in Washington and urgently achieve some short-run criminal aim for which they need some cover in order to prevent the publicity to understand what they actually...