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To: Frederick Langford who wrote (8296)	10/30/2001 9:04:08 PM
From: lh56	Respond to of 281500

the taliban... from the essay, "The Sentry's Solitude", by Fouad Ajami. "...A broad coalition may give America the comfort that it is not alone in the Muslim world. A strike against Afghanistan is the easiest of things -- far away from the troubles in the Persian Gulf and Egypt, from the head of the trail in Arab lands. The Taliban are the Khmer Rouge of this era and thus easy to deal with. The frustrations to come lie in the more ambiguous and impenetrable realms of the Arab world. Those were not Afghans who flew into those towers of glass and steel and crashed into the Pentagon. They were from the Arab world, where anti-Americanism is fierce, where terror works with the hidden winks that men and women make at the perpetrators of the grimmest of deeds." foreignaffairs.org