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Nonsense. The "distraction" argument is the most obvious nonsense. What exactly is the U.S. not doing in the war on terrorism that it would be doing if it weren't in Iraq? We are supporting a fiercely antiterrorist democratic government in Afghanistan, hunting al-Qaeda in the impossible terrain on the Pakistani frontier, coordinating with just about every secret service in the world to disrupt terrorist communications, movement and funding. What is it about Iraq that "distracts...
...special-operations personnel), TIME pieced together his story on the basis of briefings with U.S. military officials in Afghanistan plus an exclusive account of how Gulab, an Afghan herdsman, rescued the wounded commando. What emerges is the tale of a courageous U.S. fighter facing impossible odds in unfamiliar terrain, stalked by the enemy and stripped of everything but his gun and his will to survive. But it is also a story of mercy and fraternity, showing that even in the war-scorched landscape of the Afghan mountains, little shoots of humanity sometimes have a chance to grow...
...Iraq most suicide attacks are thought to have been carried out by foreign fighters. Insurgent commanders tend to view Iraqi fighters as more valuable alive: they have extensive support networks and know the home terrain. "Why waste such a valuable resource on a single mission when you can use him for a number of other important tasks?" says Navy Commander Fred Gaghan, who investigates bombings in Iraq. These days, however, more and more Iraqis like Marwan Abu Ubeida are signing up to kill themselves. That is happening, Iraqi insurgents say, in part because the rebels' tactics now involve deploying...
Obsession, often subliminally sexual, is Rendell's favorite terrain. The title story evokes an eerie and doomed romance between a timid woman and her friend's too pretty husband, a closet transvestite. The Orchard Walls tells of adultery and long-concealed vengeance from the viewpoint of a bystander, a girl on the brink of puberty, in whose mind daydreams and overheard dalliances fatally mingle. Rendell sketches a close-knit, gossipy group of old women in The Convolvulus Clock. One of them impulsively steals an artist-designed timepiece. Guilt and fear of disapproval from her friends slowly drive her cuckoo. Father...
...visual imagery. In the 1960s and 1970s, such experiments often evoked the grubby and primal. Lately artists like Robert Wilson have mined the elegant surrealism of dreams--and have willingly induced a drowsy semiconsciousness in audiences. Martha Clarke, a former modern dancer with the Pilobolus troupe, has traversed similar terrain in The Garden of Earthly Delights, echoing the Hieronymus Bosch painting that hangs in Madrid's Prado, and now in Vienna: Lusthaus, a fragment ed evocation of a city in moral decay and concealed emotional turmoil during the years leading up to World...