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...Polite controversy is just about the highest emotion generated by the royal family. They don't inspire wrath; nor do they elicit much warmth. "They live in a different world," says 25-year-old housewife Mayumi Masuoka. "How could this possibly have any significant impact?" If they're off the radar screens of most Japanese, that's intentional. The royals have studiously avoided the spotlight and maintained a deliberate distance ever since the end of World War II. They aren't jet-setting royals who play on the beaches of the Riviera or date dashing polo players. They...
...enemies are scattered across the globe, so killing bin Laden and eradicating the Taliban, even if it is possible, will not protect us from the wrath of those already determined to harm us. They don’t hate us only because American women are free to live independent lives. They hate us because we have starved thousands of Iraqi children to death with our sanctions. They hate us because we so often proclaim our strength and superiority. And they will hate us even more as we keep bombing through the Islamic holy month of Ramadan which begins next Saturday...
Some delegates blamed Osama bin Laden for Afghanistan's troubles; some still considered him a hero of the anti-Soviet jihad. Most of the bearded men in artfully folded turbans came from the same moderate, nationalist, royalist ranks. It is unlikely that many chieftains from inside Afghanistan braved Taliban wrath to come. Nowhere sat a member of the Northern Alliance. Nor did a single so-called moderate Taliban attend. From Kabul, Taliban spokesmen jeered that the gathering was a bunch of self-seekers out to pocket American dollars. Even Zahir Shah, who stood to benefit most, inexplicably failed to send...
...Americans don't fear the wrath of protesters. It is those who carried out the heinous attack who must face the rage of the world." ROBERT SOLOMON New York City...
...Afghans still don't understand what this war is really about. They can't comprehend the enormity of what happened on Sept 11, nor why our wrath has fallen on them. Remember: the Talibans don't believe in TV or newspapers. Afghans haven't seen those horrifying images of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. An aid worker friend was in Afghanistan at the time, trying to explain the dimensions of the calamity to Afghans. "They couldn't understand what the fuss was about. They thought the World Trade Center was a few shops at a caravan crossing...