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...Fires are expected to spread in the run-up to the loya jirga. "The next few months will be an especially fragile period," CIA director George Tenet recently told the U.S. Senate. Pashtun royalists hope people will rally around former King Mohammed Zahir Shah, even though he has returned with the constitutional rights of an ordinary citizen rather than those of a monarch. But Afghanistan's volatile ethnic divisions are just as likely to turn the frail 87-year-old king into a symbol of division than one of peace...
...meetings that produced the speech were even more extraordinary. For several days, the most powerful people in the Administration had served as speechwriters. Bush, Powell, Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and CIA Director George Tenet had all called or crowded into the Situation Room and worked on the speech line by line--a measure of how troubled and critical this moment really was. The team added a great deal of moral embroidery and made sure that the speech demanded something from everyone. In the Rose Garden, Bush reached out to Yasser Arafat...
...cease-fire, then, may be a bridge too far. But Powell is attempting to do more on his trip than simply try, where General Anthony Zinni has so far failed, to get the two sides to implement the Tenet cease-fire plan. He is, in his own words, "aggressively" pursuing renewed political negotiations over Palestinian statehood as part of a wider truce effort. During his talks with Sharon, he emphasized that a political settlement is essential to ultimately put an end to Palestinian terrorism...
Does this create an inherent conflict with groups that consider evangelism a core tenet of their belief system? Some see little difference between these “destructive” groups and Christian groups that seek to enthusiastically share their faith. But at Harvard, even the extent of those groups’ evangelism varies, depending on whom...
...secret of his belief that rather than cajoling Arafat to act, the best way to fight terrorism is to prevent him from acting by keeping him entirely isolated. His captivity has made Arafat more inclined to embrace the martyrdom language of Hamas than to sign off on the Tenet cease-fire plan. And if the operation's motivation was to stop the suicide bombings that have terrorized Israelis to the point of despair, then the fact that there have been six such attacks in as many days suggest there's no likelihood of an early withdrawal...