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...appear unable to agree on what role American forces will play in targeting militants on Pakistani soil. Thursday's exchange - Pakistani officials said the helicopters had returned fire, which U.S. officials denied - between U.S. forces and Washington's key ally in its war on terror highlights the tinderbox that western Pakistan has become since 9/11. U.S. forces find themselves restrained by political and diplomatic concerns from pursuing enemy targets inside Pakistan, while the loyalties of Pakistan's security forces are clearly divided. Those forces - especially the Frontier Corps that guards the border - can be crudely characterized as being pro-Taliban...
...which includes Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, says Pakistan's very existence is threatened by the turmoil along its border with Afghanistan. "Pakistan faces a threat that certainly seems to be an existential threat," he told reporters Thursday in Paris. Echoing a growing Pentagon refrain, Petraeus likened the enemy in western Pakistan to a "syndicate" made up of "some true al-Qaeda, some Taliban, and in between different forms of extremist movements...
...like a mother's caress, nary a wrinkle or bead of sweat visible, and spoke in the same laconic tone you might use to discuss the weather with a co-worker while sorting your e-mail at the same time. He met the press in Clearwater, Fla., the western end of a wide belt of suburbs along Interstate 4 that usually decides who wins the state's 27 electoral votes. A regional poll out that morning showed him surging, and not even a bank panic was going to make him lose his cool...
...injection of western food aid into a poor economy hurts local farmers by depressing prices, even in an emergency. That makes it even harder for millions of small farmers to buy the high-priced fertilizer or fuel they need to compete. "The backbone of world agriculture is small farmers," says Joaquim von Braun, director general of the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington. "We will only grow out of the food crisis if these people have access to markets...
...revolution is long overdue, say advocacy groups. Organizations such as Oxfam and the London-based think tank Overseas Development Institute are critical of traditional food aid programs because they depend so heavily on western agricultural producers, such as the U.S. and Europe, and fail to help farmers in poor countries. When a crisis hits, as it did in Ethiopia this summer, the WFP typically asks governments to donate millions in emergency funds to feed people. That help comes either in food supplies or in cash, which the organization then uses to buy huge quantities of rice, maize and other staples...