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...Others believe Europe is still too mired in political rivalries to respond effectively to emerging crises. "There is real fear that Europe will keep getting key decisions wrong," as Morton Abramowitz, a former U.S. assistant secretary of state, writes in the current Foreign Affairs. Greece's many differences with Turkey, for example, have already delayed the deployment of the E.U. force in Macedonia because the old enemies can't agree on the use of NATO facilities. Europe's natural strengths in the Balkans - proximity and historical ties - remain its singular weaknesses as well, fueling accusations of bias toward one group...
...Church in Avon, where Ginny and Hilary worship every Sunday, and the last at the Protestant church that George had attended growing up. Since there was still no sign of a body, Ginny propped up a framed photo of George on the altar: he was basting a Thanksgiving turkey and grinning ear to ear. At the receptions afterward, Hilary was the one grinning. Again she played hostess, making animated small talk with different clusters of relatives...
...Jabarah admitted traveling to Singapore last October to help mount an aborted plot to blow up the U.S., British, Israeli and Australian embassies there. And last week a federal grand jury in Detroit indicted four local Arab men with conspiring to support radical Islamic terror attacks against the U.S., Turkey and Jordan...
...apparent that his power is almost entirely derived from the presence of foreign armies - the U.S. special forces and air power that put the Taliban to flight and keeps more ambitious warlords in their place, and the International Security Assistance Force composed primarily of European troops (currently led by Turkey). And the reluctance of the U.S. to sanction any expansion of the peacekeeping mission beyond the 4,000 ISAF troops currently in the capital has earned Karzai the unkind nickname "Mayor of Kabul," since his writ doesn't run much beyond the city limits. Even there, some U.S. foreign policy...
...horseback or on foot. One 14-year-old boy, an orphan, tried to sign up; the Americans turned him away. But by graduation, more than one-third of the trainees had dropped out. Many had arrived with the idea that they would be training in the U.S. or Turkey, then quit when they realized that they were destined only for the battle-scarred Afghan Military Academy outside Kabul and that they would make just $30 a month during training and $50 afterward. "If I'd known it was going to be like this, I probably wouldn't have come," grumbles...