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...placate such skeptics, the U.S. and the King have sworn they are not trying to bring the monarchy back. "He is not a pretender to the throne," says the King's longtime lieutenant, General Abdul Wali, also an exile in Rome. For their part, the southern Pashtun are enthusiastic about the loya jirga. They say once it is convened, they will come up with a workable compromise for governing the country...
...would like to think that an instruction manual directing terrorists on how to commit their next act of violence would be taken off the web by the U.S. government. For letting this website remain online is the same thing as harboring terrorists—something the U.S. government has sworn...
...Rumsfeld braced the U.S. public for a long campaign, saying the attacks could go on for "several years," and acknowledging the airstrikes could elicit new terrorist attacks against the United States. Counter-terrorism efforts are in full swing across the country; in Washington, former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge was sworn in as the head of the newly created Office of Homeland Security...
...strategic justification for military action is clear. Although a forceful response may kindle anger among our sworn enemies, we would be fools to maintain illusions of courting their friendship. We have no leverage over sick fanatics who blow themselves up to win salvation from whatever demons they mistake for gods. They do not respond to incentives, they do not fear death, and they will not stop hating us until we cower away in ignominious isolationism...
...trying to tear down that culture?and have powerful, entrenched forces fighting you every step of the way. The LDP conservatives, led by the formidable Ryutaro Hashiimoto, want no part of Koizumi's reform agenda and are determined to preserve the business-politics relationships the Prime Minister has sworn to destroy. They are waiting to pounce: at the first sign of vulnerability, they will surely come after Koizumi as they did with previous reform-minded Premiers. "They've been waiting years to dig up some scandal on Koizumi," says his longtime aide, Isao Iijima. "But there is no scandal...