Word: tribalisms
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...final error was not taking culture seriously enough. There is a large discrepancy between neoconservatism's skepticism of government's ability to change culture at home and its naiveté when it comes to complex, tribal, sectarian cultures abroad...
...front line of terror. The situation is so bad that Musharraf and Afghan President Hamid Karzai have gotten into a tiff over who needs to do more to stop terror along their 1,470-mile, largely lawless frontier. Karzai said Musharraf should do more to contain the lawless tribal regions in the country?s north, while Musharraf has called for mining the border. Little wonder, then, the security situation in Islamabad, the national capital where the Bush-Musharraf summit will be held, is in a total lockdown with thousands of troops...
...Indian country and telling them what they need to do,” Lopez said. “It’s a partnership. HUNAP is at the table representing Harvard, IHS is a government agency, and the third party we’re bringing to the table is tribal leaders.” And Norman said that he hoped the collaboration would be a “two-way street.” “These kinds of partnerships teach medicine an awful lot about how to be effective,” Norman said. —Staff...
...meet with a top U.S. official. And true to form, on Wednesday, just as President Bush was visiting Afghanistan and declaring that "I am confident [bin Laden] will be brought to justice," Pakistan announced that 45 Qaeda-aligned militants had been killed in a raid in the tribal badlands of Waziristan - where bin Laden and his chief lieutenant, Ayman al-Zawahiri, are believed to be operating. Announcements of victories against al-Qaeda highlight the primary reason the Bush Administration has been inclined to avoid confronting Musharraf over concerns ranging from democracy in Pakistan to the fact that its top nuclear...
...against him. Even then, in the capital, the police proved unable to prevent a banned rally from going ahead. Some Pakistani analysts believe Musharraf is more vulnerable now than at any time since he seized power in a 1999 coup as he faces the combined challenges of foreign jihadists, tribal secessionists, indigenous Islamists and the liberal opposition...