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Michael J. Sandel, who teaches the popular moral reasoning course “Justice,” recently posed an essay question to his students: Imagine you are a soldier behind enemy lines on a secret mission and unarmed civilians discover you. Should you kill them...
...skies. Describing it as a "total high," he says he knew then it was only a matter of time before the Russians would leave. "Who would have thought the 'evil empire' would collapse and, most astonishingly, that it would collapse without a single drop of blood from an American soldier?" He also has no remorse over his devotion to the Afghan guerrillas, many of whom later became Islamic warriors and formed the Taliban. "We were fighting the evil empire. It would have been like not supplying the Soviets against Hitler in World War II," he says. "Anyway, who the hell...
...Fatah party of Yasser Arafat to deliver a Palestinian state in negotiations, Hamas triumphed in parliamentary elections last year. Despite being under severe pressure from Israel, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the international community, Hamas recently seized military control of Gaza and continues to hold an Israeli soldier it captured in 2006. For its part, Hizballah not only drove Israeli forces out of Lebanon after a 22-year occupation, but was hailed in the Arab world last year for resisting a massive Israeli incursion into Lebanon. That onslaught was triggered by Hizballah's capture of two Israeli soldiers, and Israel...
...bombing was the first such attack in the middle of the capital since a suicide bomber detonated himself on an army bus on Sept. 29, killing at least 35 Afghan National Army soldiers. But it came a day after a bomb planted on a little-used road on the fringes of the capital exploded, killing four. And on Saturday, a suicide bomber blew himself up in the town of Paghman, 15 miles outside Kabul, in an attack on Italian military engineers building a footbridge. One soldier and eight Afghans were killed in that attack, including three children. The Taliban have...
...know the gangsters will call in their 50 friends," says Pasha. Pakistan's military - which came of age fighting conventional wars with archrival India - never developed the expertise to tackle domestic insurgencies. The frontier corps, says the Western military official, is undertrained and outgunned. He puts himself in the soldier's boots: "I'm making $20 a month, I've got five bullets in my gun, and a couple of guys with AK-47s come up. I mean the question is, Do I want to die? Oh, and by the way, they know all my family...