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...chances of U.S. troops' playing a long-term reconstruction role are "zero." Some scoff at the idea of a peacekeeping force at all. "If the Afghans can't sort this out themselves, an outside force isn't going to help," says a senior Administration official. Yet he admits the tide is against isolationists at the moment. "Peacekeeping is the flavor du jour. Talking about it shows how suave and sophisticated you are," he says...
...shape so much of the country's domestic and foreign policy to a radical agenda. "This is a battle for the heart and soul of Pakistan," says Chris Smith, senior research fellow at King's College London Center for Defense Studies. "He has taken a decision to stem the tide of the forces of radical Islam." Says Andrew Kennedy, Asia director of London's Royal United Services Institute for Defense Studies: "He's either going to win big or lose...
...chances of U.S. troops' playing a long-term reconstruction role are "zero." Some scoff at the idea of a peacekeeping force at all. "If the Afghans can't sort this out themselves, an outside force isn't going to help," says a senior Administration official. Yet he admits the tide is against isolationists at the moment. "Peacekeeping is the flavor du jour. Talking about it shows how suave and sophisticated you are," he says...
...groups and tribal leaders. The better option, they say, is for the international community to home in on bin Laden and clandestinely help the Northern Alliance secure a few key victories, such as the recapture of Mazar-i-Sharif in northern Afghanistan. Once that happens, the thinking goes, the tide will swiftly turn against the Taliban commanders. Otherwise, a major U.S.-led assault could have disastrous effects inside Afghanistan--and in neighboring Pakistan too. "We have a saying: 'To kill a louse, you needn't set fire to your jacket,'" explains Mohammed Sarwar Khan Kakar, an influential tribal leader...
Howie Blitzer is a pie-faced Long Island (L.I.) urchin who quotes L.I. luminary Walt Whitman in the same breath as issuing a tide of expletives. After a young highway hustler fulfills the obligatory role as an intoxicatingly unruly and unreliable friend, Howie finds comfort in the company of Big John, a heartily patriotic pederast. While the film occasionally veers into heavy-handed obviousness—could Howie be looking for a father figure to supplant his own crooked contractor dad?—and the ending is disappointingly inane, it resists the usual topical temptation for sensationalism. L.I.E. also...