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Third, otherwise robust societies can be dragged down by the environmental problems of their trade partners. About 500 years ago, two Polynesian societies, on Henderson Island and Pitcairn Island, vanished because they depended for vital imports on the Polynesian society of Mangareva Island, which collapsed from deforestation. We Americans can well understand that outcome, having seen how vulnerable we are to instability in oil-exporting countries of the Middle East...
...Clarke, the bombing of the Cole was final proof that the old policy hadn't worked. It was time for something more aggressive--a plan to make war against al-Qaeda. One element was vital. The Taliban's control of Afghanistan was not yet complete; in the northeast of the country, Northern Alliance forces led by Ahmed Shah Massoud, a legendary guerrilla leader who had fought against the Soviet invaders of Afghanistan in the 1980s, were still resisting Taliban rule. Clarke argued that Massoud should be given the resources to develop a viable fighting force. That way, terrorists leaving...
...been born in Afghanistan when Islamic radicals began flocking there in 1979, after the Soviets invaded. Bin Laden and his closest associates had returned in 1996, when they were expelled from Sudan. Al-Qaeda's terrorist training camps were in Afghanistan, and bin Laden's forces and money were vital to sustaining the Taliban's offensives against Massoud...
Before the start of the U.S.-led military campaign in Afghanistan, the Labour government did publish evidence linking the Taliban, al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden to the Sept. 11 attacks, a move that was seen as vital to maintaining public support. "But the [Iraq] dossier is a bit like the Grand Old Duke of York," says Menzies Campbell, the Liberal Democrats' shadow foreign secretary. "It's been up the hill and down the hill. If it amounts to something of substance, then it could be persuasive. If it's just a set of newspaper cuttings, then there would...
...destruction that it will have to destroy Saddam sooner or later, they say it's better to get it over with sooner. This camp is led in public by Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld and his fiercely gung ho deputy Paul Wolfowitz. But most longtime Bush hands agree that its vital spiritual leader is the backroom Vice President Dick Cheney, who gives this camp constant access to Bush...