Word: sovietize
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...defense, focus on reducing our vulnerabilities and include the option of pre-emptive attack. It is not fear of attack from Iraq that moves the Bush Administration to seek a regime change there and to threaten a first strike. After all, the U.S. was able to deter the Soviet Union; it should not have much trouble deterring Iraq. The real fear is that such an enemy may seek to coerce the U.S. by passing weapons of mass destruction to a virtual state such as al-Qaeda, which cannot be deterred...
When Khatol returns home from work, she sometimes takes a nap on her bed, still wearing her uniform. Other times she relaxes in the living room, surrounded by colorful bouquets of paper flowers sent by well wishers. She likes to watch an old black-and-white Soviet-made TV that she borrows from friends, especially "fighting films" with Jackie Chan and Jean-Claude Van Damme. But mostly she frets about the future of women like her sister Lailama, who will find it difficult to make up for the time lost under the Taliban. "There's no difference between the Taliban...
...past year has finally granted them the stature they crave. And their failure was by no means a given. Not so long ago, the jihadists appeared to be moving from one success to another: first the Iranian revolution in 1979, then the successful guerrilla war that forced the Soviet army from Afghanistan in 1989. But in Saudi Arabia following the Gulf War, for example, a rupture appeared between moderate Islamists--those of the pious middle classes imbued with conservatism--and the more radical movements that view the Wahhabi kingdom as a U.S. protectorate that must be destroyed. In the first...
...double goal: to claim American lives on American soil, and to trigger a U.S. retaliation against Taliban-ruled Afghanistan that would turn the country into a massive cemetery for U.S. troops and precipitate the fall of America. The terrorists had in mind the Afghan rout of the Soviet army, which helped provoke the implosion of the U.S.S.R. The assassination of Afghan commander Ahmed Shah Massoud two days before Sept. 11 was meant to eliminate the Taliban's leading opponent before he could help the anticipated U.S. counterattack. Muslim scholars and clerics around the world were expected to call the faithful...
...simply ridiculous to imagine that defeating radical Islamic terrorism--however vile it may be--will require the same level of national commitment as was seen in the cold war. The Soviet Union's ideology had many adherents and apologists throughout the West. For leaders in the developing world--where the Soviet Union was extending its power as late as the 1980s--Moscow was associated with progress and an escape from the thieving grasp of colonialism. Above all, communism was militarily powerful; the Soviet Union had thousands of weapons of mass destruction aimed right at us, and in Vietnam communist forces...