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...Laden’s book, we may have lost the upper hand, but then again, his is a book that preaches destruction, revenge and wholesale slaughter. His was an assault that dictated its own ghastly terms, that wrote its own rules of war. In our own book of rules, though, the unthinkable is sometimes unpreventable, apprehension is sometimes inevitable and our loss of confidence in air travel is sometimes normal...
That was hardly an outcome the U.S. could like. The one thing Washington cared about was that al-Qaeda and non-Afghan fighters in Kunduz be captured or killed. Pakistan, on the other hand, wanted to prevent a slaughter of its nationals who had flocked to the Taliban banner; there were unconfirmed tales of Pakistani planes landing in the night to spirit disillusioned volunteers away...
Administration officials seemed surprisingly comfortable with surfing the instability. While European allies pleaded to rush in to prevent mayhem, the Bush Administration preferred to wait and see (irritating best pal Tony Blair, who wanted to deploy hundreds of British peacekeepers). "They're not devolving into slaughter," a senior State Department official said of the warlords. Washington saw only minimal intertribal fighting, so the smart play was to sit back and let Afghan leaders run things...
...battle for the Taliban 's last northern stronghold at Kunduz became a test case for the fate of other Taliban and foreign fighters: Were they to be killed, taken prisoner or allowed to go home? After a first cease-fire fell through and thousands of Taliban supporters faced slaughter, the Red Cross called for all parties to observe the Geneva Convention on prisoners of war. Tensions emerged within the Northern Alliance, as diplomats scurried to arrange multiparty talks in Bonn aimed at securing enough political stability to begin the country's rehabilitation. Pakistan severed its last diplomatic ties with...
...other words, for the first time in our history we will have enshrined in law a class of human beings—cloned embryos—who it is illegal not to kill. Even the moral idiocy of our country’s abortion law, which permits the slaughter of fetuses (or the “elimination of the unwanted tissue,” for those who find refuge in euphemism) at any time and for any reason, cannot quite compare to this. Under the rules set down by Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, American women...