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...injuries, certainly dealt a psychological blow to the Taliban, for whom Dadullah has emerged as a powerful propaganda rallying point. His persona was used to recruit new fighters by the Taliban, with leaflets distributed only last week in Zabul province urging former mujahedin who had fought the Soviets in the 1980s to rally behind him. After losing a leg as a young mujaheed in the anti-Soviet jihad, Dadullah rose through the ranks of the Taliban, becoming a member of its 10-man leadership council. His death, therefore, makes him the highest-profile Taliban leader to be killed since...
...kind: both the products of unhappy childhoods, both paranoid, combative, grandiose, deceptive, relentlessly driven men. They shared power on an unprecedented basis, and it's both hypnotic and terrifying to watch this unsteady Siamese-twin act toddling around the globe, from China to Chile, Vietnam to the Soviet Union, simultaneously propping each other up and cutting each other down (Nixon called Kissinger his "Jew boy"; Kissinger referred to Nixon as "that madman," "the meatball mind" and "our drunken friend...
...course, Bill and Melinda Gates are not alone in contemporary transformative philanthropy. George Soros' support for brave truth tellers in Central Europe and the former Soviet Union helped catalyze the peaceful end of communism. The Google guys, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, are out to prove how information technologies can bring about major change. They have recently posted satellite imagery of Darfur, Sudan, in order to raise awareness and technical support for solutions in that violence-ravaged region. The dynamism of social entrepreneurship makes a mockery, alas, of our political leadership. The Gateses, Buffett, Soros, Page and Brin have left...
...kind: both the products of unhappy childhoods, both paranoid, combative, grandiose, deceptive, relentlessly driven men. They shared power on an unprecedented basis, and it's hypnotic and--retroactively--terrifying to watch this unsteady Siamese-twin act toddling around the globe, from China to Chile, Vietnam to the Soviet Union, simultaneously propping each other up and cutting each other down (Nixon called Kissinger his "Jew boy"; Kissinger referred to Nixon as "that madman," "the meatball mind" and "our drunken friend...
...than remember and reconcile, the Putin regime doesn't miss a chance to abuse the sacred May 9 anniversary as a part of a wider campaign to fan nationalist hysteria in Russia ahead of December's parliamentary elections, and the Presidential poll scheduled for next March. Just as in Soviet times, there's nothing like the specter of an external enemy, either to make the people accept that they don't change horses in midstream and let Putin stay - or to pave the way for someone way harsher than Putin. A strong hand to keep the country together. Just what...