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Stories from 2002-01-11
"Diplomats say warlords who watched the Northern Alliance rebels gain power in Afghanistan with the help of U.S. military might are seeking a repeat performance in Somalia. " 'But Somalia is not Afghanistan. The transitional national government is not Taliban. I am not Mullah Mohammad Omar,' the president said, referring to the Taliban leader who sheltered bin Laden, wanted for the September 11 attacks." [more]
"Kandahar is filled with 10,000 armed men loyal to anti-Taleban warlords. Nooruddin said that while the extremist Taleban had won the arguments in the past, there were many Taleban moderates. 'The people know this,' he said. 'Now we should win their hearts with more mildness. For the people, they hate the Americans.' " [more]
"Kurdish followers of Osama bin Laden, who are trying to establish a Taliban-style enclave in northern Iraq, have triggered a civil war estimated to have claimed more than 100 lives in four months." [more]
"Reports from Pakistan say the Musharraf regime began asking the US military to return two of the four bases — Jacobabad and Pasni — lent to it for the Afghan operation because of the tensions with India. Whether or not this was a pressure tactic to get the US to lean on India to relax its pressure is unclear, but it transpires that US generals have agreed to move their assets out of Pakistan." [more]
"It thus seems fundamental to me that we cannot have a global trading system without a global economic policy, a global health care policy, a global education policy, a global environmental policy and a global security policy. "In effect, we have to create more opportunity for those left behind by progress, thus reducing the pool of potential terrorists by increasing the number of potential partners." [more]
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(IHT, Apr 30)
"In just five years, Bush has challenged more than 750 new laws, by far a record for any president, while becoming the first president since Thomas Jefferson to stay so long in office without issuing a veto." [more]
(Interactivist Info Exchange, Jul 26)
"Horizontalism is not an ideology, however, it is a relationship — a way of relating to one another in a directly democratic way while at the same time creating through the process of discovery. What has resulted is the creation of an amazing complex of movements, all linked." [more] |
This website is a tribute to Why War?, one of the nation's first and most innovative post-9/11 student antiwar organizations. Born on October 22, 2001 at Swarthmore College, we were a handful of freshmen and sophmores who vocally opposed the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. And now, seven years later, we are retiring this website as we focus our efforts on new directions. We hope that it continues to serve future activists and we remain confident that humanity is on the verge birthing a better world.
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