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...understandable precaution - security in the capital has reached an all time low. On July 7 a suicide bomber rammed his explosives laden truck into the gates of the Indian embassy, killing 41 in the capital's worst terrorist attack. In April assassins attempted to kill Karzai at a national day parade, and in January militants conducted a sophisticated raid on the country's only luxury hotel, killing 9. This year in Afghanistan as a whole has been the bloodiest ever. For two months running foreign soldier casualties in Afghanistan have topped those in Iraq, Obama's anticipated next stop...
...mistakes in Afghanistan, so if Obama can change the policy it is good for America and good for us." Saboor is acutely aware of the problems insecurity have brought to his country; his carpet shop, which used to be next to the Indian embassy, was blown up in the terrorist attack. "I hope this new guy has new ideas for security. He says he wants to bring troops from Iraq to Afghanistan. Iraq is improved now, so maybe those troops will improve security here...
...become the most public face of the FLDS, apart from the primly dressed mothers pleading for their children on national television. Jessop constantly declares that there will be no more underage marriages even while writing to President Bush to compare the raid on the YFZ Ranch to a "terrorist...
...sense that yellowness has so intensely taken over the day itself that it has taken over our verbs, too--yellowness has conquered our agency." It's like Woolf landed a 1080° at the X Games. (Wood knows how to boo, too, and he singles out one book in particular: Terrorist, by his colleague at the New Yorker, John Updike. You can picture Updike raising one of his long, feathery, white eyebrows in response...
Finally, we need a stronger and sustained partnership between Afghanistan, Pakistan and NATO to secure the border, to take out terrorist camps and to crack down on cross-border insurgents. We should condition some assistance to Pakistan on their action to take the fight to the terrorists within their borders. And if we have actionable intelligence about high-level al-Qaeda targets, we must act if Pakistan will not or cannot...