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...nobody in his right mind should forget the quagmire into which the U.S. sank when it engaged in the internal affairs of Southeast Asia. But it's a bit much to take an example 30 years old as the sole guide to our actions today. There's an analogy much closer to hand. Iraq is a dictatorship with a centralized economy; it strictly controls access to the outside world; its people live in fear of thugs from the state security apparatus; and not least, it devotes much of its budget to secret military programs. All of that was true...
...nobody in his right mind should forget the quagmire into which the U.S. sank when it engaged in the internal affairs of Southeast Asia. But it's a bit much to take an example 30 years old as the sole guide to our actions today. There's an analogy much closer to hand. Iraq is a dictatorship with a centralized economy; it strictly controls access to the outside world; its people live in fear of thugs from the state security apparatus; and not least, it devotes much of its budget to secret military programs. All of that was true...
Though the Bali bombing was particularly sickening, it was part of a greater spasm of violence that has counterterrorism officials bracing for more. The CIA believes that the outrage was the work of Muslim extremists belonging to the Southeast Asian group Jemaah Islamiah, which the U.S. believes is closely linked with al-Qaeda, the terrorist network headed by Osama bin Laden. And al-Qaeda, CIA Director George Tenet said in congressional testimony last week, is now in "execution phase." Indeed, senior U.S. intelligence sources tell TIME that they fear a recent spate of terrorist attacks around the world...
...Nike has offered them aid?microloans to start their own businesses, continued health care, and an offer to tell other suppliers to hire the laid off workers. But the factory is likely doomed. Chris Helzer, director of external affairs for Nike in Southeast Asia, says the company stopped placing orders with Doson because their product was substandard...
...Within hours of the Bali attacks, TIME had mobilized a team of six journalists and photographers who flew to Indonesia to join our two correspondents based there. Southeast Asian correspondent Simon Elegant, business correspondent Michael Schuman, contributing writer Andrew Marshall and contributing photo-grapher John Stanmeyer headed to Jakarta. Elegant, along with reporters Jason Tedjasukmana and Zamira Loebis, uncovered the real story of what the Indonesian government knew before the blasts and its belated responses to the terror. Schuman set out from Jakarta to piece together how these attacks will economically cripple Indonesia. Marshall and Stanmeyer headed for eastern Java...