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...that the Afghan army is still weak. After eight years, when does he expect that it will have the strength and willingness to combat the insurgents - in 10 years, or 20 years? Those of us who served in Vietnam could readily see the same lack of willingness in the South Vietnamese as they mostly refused to put their lives on the line in their war against the North. If the government of a country of 28 million people can't muster enough support to combat 10,000 insurgents, maybe we should be considering other options. John Uffer, Denville...
...reproducing faster, and tropical species are beginning to extend their range. "It could be a big economic problem for countries like Australia," says Anthony Richardson, a marine biologist at the University of Queensland in Australia. If the deadly box jellyfish that plague the country's northern beaches migrate south to the Gold Coast, it could have huge implications for the region's multibillion-dollar tourism industry. (See TIME's special report on the environment...
Responding to a spate of attacks by Taliban militants that killed more than 100 people in the first three weeks of October, Pakistan's government launched a new offensive in insurgent-plagued South Waziristan that it dubbed Operation Path of Riddance. Pakistan's army chief requested the support of the area's Mehsud tribe, whose members fill many of the Taliban's top posts. Thousands of civilians fled the region, where 30,000 troops were fighting...
Judge William Wayne Justice was a hero of mine. He set the pace for so-called activist judges and in the process became the most despised man in Texas. When Wayne was appointed a federal district judge in 1968, the South was not through fighting the Civil War. The most unpopular people were those, like Wayne, who enforced desegregation in schools...
Over the weekend, gunmen murdered a peasant union leader and 14 others in the latest high-profile drug killings. With violence and bloodshed at the doorstep of our border with Mexico, America can no longer ignore the deteriorating circumstances of our neighbor to the south. Now that force has failed, an end to drug prohibition is the obvious next step...