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...handicapping one's enemies--is being repeated on every level of Afghan society as the leaders of the country's numerous tribes peer through the fog of war to glimpse a post-Taliban future. They are not alone. Each of the bordering nations--Iran, Pakistan, China, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan--has its preferred outcome and is working to secure it. Further afield, the U.S. and its allies are waking up to their need for a stable postwar Afghanistan. Without it, U.S. officials say, there is no way to prevent the country from continuing to serve as a haven for terrorists...
...from the front, and should be open this month. Until it can operate, military hardware and ammunition from Iran and Russia must follow one of two treacherous supply routes. The first is a limited airlift: a handful of Mi-17 transport helicopters that load up at supply dumps in Tajikistan and northern Afghanistan, then fly across the towering Hindu Kush range to the Panjshir Valley and Shomali Plain. But last week bad weather and low visibility grounded those choppers. The other supply line is a rock-strewn mountain track that winds for more than 150 miles from Afghanistan's northern...
...handicapping one's enemies?is being repeated on every level of Afghan society as the leaders of the country's numerous tribes peer through the fog of war to glimpse a post-Taliban future. They are not alone. Each of the bordering nations?Iran, Pakistan, China, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan?has its preferred outcome and is working to secure it. Further afield, the U.S. and its allies are waking up to their need for a stable postwar Afghanistan. Without it, U.S. officials say, there is no way to prevent the country from continuing to serve as a haven for terrorists...
...from the front, and should be open this month. Until it can operate, military hardware and ammunition from Iran and Russia must follow one of two treacherous supply routes. The first is a limited airlift: a handful of Mi-17 transport helicopters that load up at supply dumps in Tajikistan and northern Afghanistan, then fly across the towering Hindu Kush range to the Panjshir Valley and Shomali Plain. But last week bad weather and low visibility grounded those choppers. The other supply line is a rock-strewn mountain track that winds for more than 150 miles from Afghanistan's northern...
...there was no consensus among council members on peacekeeping - hardly surprising, since most established armies would have no greater enthusiasm than their U.S. counterparts for such a risky deployment, and a post-Taliban Afghanistan remains a geopolitical chessboard on which the interests of Iran, Russia, China, Pakistan, India, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and the U.S. all compete. Even as it balanced all of these competing interests, Secretary General Kofi Annan warned that the U.N. would have to move with uncharacteristic nimbleness to avert a tragedy which, he said, would make the Congo and the Balkans look like child's play...