Word: totalitarian
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...totalitarian fundamentalists of the Taliban head for the hills under the triple assault of U.S. warplanes, Northern Alliance advances and the treachery of erstwhile allies, the stage is being set less for a democratic renaissance than for a new round of horse-trading among the hard men. And the emphasis here is definitely on men - in all the reporting you've read or watched from Afghanistan in the past six weeks, how many women's voices have you heard? Probably none, because the Northern Alliance appear to share the Taliban's enthusiasm for the idea that women are seen (barely...
...Sunday the U.S. could not stop the Alliance seizing the capital because it did not have sufficient troops on the ground to do that - but there was no question of the desirability of keeping them out. Foreign observers agree that the one thing Kabul residents fear more than the totalitarian Taliban is the return of the Northern Alliance - tens of thousands of civilians died there in the crossfire of factional battles the last time elements of the Alliance controlled the capital. Fear of the Northern Alliance storming the capital might actually rally Pashtuns behind the Taliban, potentially creating a protracted...
...understanding that he puts forward is that of the Muslim mainstream. In doing so, he uses the example of an extremist in New York (whom the Muslim community itself has intensely criticized for his comments) and a favorable review of a book by the Defense Minister of a totalitarian secular government (Syria) that bombed and killed 20,000 of its civilians because their Muslim faith asked them to protest the government’s tyranny. Might as well define America by Jerry Falwell and David Duke. The fact that the favorable book review was published in a respectable mainstream newspaper...
...smacks of Big Brother. Indeed, the prospect of a police officer saying, "Your papers, please," seems to represent everything we fought against during the Cold War. It reeks of the repressive policies of totalitarian states that restrict the free flow of ideas, of people, of commerce, of everything...
...another Reagan-esque motion, Bush has succeeded in defining the moral imperative of our actions. In his speech before Congress on Sept. 20, he clearly identified the evilness of radical Islamic terrorism by comparing it to fascism and Nazism. Then—just as Reagan predicted the repressive, totalitarian Soviet government was destined for the “ash heap of history”—Bush vowed that murderous terror organizations would end up “in history’s unmarked grave of discarded lies.” He distinctly laid out the moral and practical...