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...rising. The conventional wisdom is that Hamas will finish a strong second to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' ruling Fatah party in the election. But Fatah seems in complete disarray, unhinged by corruption and incompetence. Its factions appear to be literally at war with one another. "It's Somalia in Gaza," a prominent Palestinian security official told TIME's Jamil Hamad. "There's a different government on every street corner." The official says he sent Abbas a memo last week begging him to call off the elections for fear of violence so severe that "there will be no wounded people this...
...Pirates of the Asian Seas Our report on pirates plying the waters off Somalia [Nov. 14] noted that such seaborne attacks have long been a criminal plague around the world. We wrote about the threat in the seas of Southeast Asia 27 years ago. Here is an excerpt from that report [July...
...after major gaffes or losses of lives. It took the leak of the bombing of Cambodia combined with over 33,000 U.S. dead to spur then-President Richard Nixon to announce the withdrawal of the first 25,000 U.S. troops from Vietnam in June of 1969. In Lebanon and Somalia, President Ronald Reagan and President Bill Clinton, respectively, did not begin withdrawals until casualties took them by surprise. We should not wait for a catalyst on such a scale this time around, and Congress is taking an important first step in ensuring we don’t. If the Bush...
...prevent or perhaps reverse the spread of hatred and violence originating from neglect and alienation. Ildi Trencsenyi Budapest History is replete with alienated minorities that successfully assimilated and did not bomb innocent people. Angry Muslims have forgotten the West's benevolence during global humanitarian missions to Muslim populations in Somalia, Bosnia and Indonesia. The West can no longer pursue appeasement. It must challenge the jihadist philosophy by using its own enduring and sacred values socially, politically and, if threatened, militarily. Sean Lille Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S. On a Pedestal I was pleased to read "Rubbing Shoulders With Lord Nelson...
...those seeking to cause mayhem on the high seas, the waters off Somalia are among the world's most alluring. Somalia has lacked an effective central government for 14 years, and the U.S. believes that al-Qaeda--linked militants operate there. Combined Task Force 150, a multinational naval unit, patrols in the nearby Gulf of Aden and the waters around the Horn of Africa, searching for suspected terrorists who may be moving equipment or people by sea or planning a maritime attack. But with its attention focused on stopping terrorists, the U.S. Navy has been hesitant about pursuing pirates...