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...solemn assessment by that the "graphic and shocking, albeit brief, exposure of Janet Jackson's bare right breast to a nationwide audience composed of millions of children and adults" warrants - lo, these 5½ years after that insanely overhyped distraction from the Iraq war - further investigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

...collector sites of comments like, "That is so cool! The leather SS jacket makes my blood go cold it is so COOL!" - leads to suspension of as senior military analyst for Human Rights Watch, after which comes the belated realization by that "images of the Second World War German military are hurtful to many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

...years back, the Taliban commander thought his personal war with the Americans was over when he surrendered his Toyota Land Cruiser, a stack of rocket-propelled grenades and his personal weapons to the police chief in Kandahar. Mullah A, who prefers not to be identified, was exhausted. In late 2001, when U.S.-backed forces were pushing into northern Afghanistan, the commander saw most of his men wiped out by heavy American bombardment. He was one of the few survivors, and he fled south, back home to Kandahar, convinced that his fighting days had come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Anti-Taliban Efforts Have Failed | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

...life, Mullah A rejoined the Taliban. Nowadays, he and his men ambush U.S.-led coalition targets in Helmand and Kandahar provinces, and he brags to TIME that recently his outfit blasted a dozen rocket-propelled grenades into the NATO base at Kandahar. (See pictures of U.S. Marines at war in Afghanistan's Kunar province...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Anti-Taliban Efforts Have Failed | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

...must be changed." Frattini wants more emphasis on the approach Italian forces have used to stabilize more secure areas of Afghanistan, working with local leaders to guarantee security and improve services. Still, Italian troops - technically on a peacekeeping mission - are ever more aware that they are effectively fighting a war. (See pictures of the battle against the Taliban...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Italy Pull Its Troops out of Afghanistan? | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

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