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erican politics. But so far, the current Afghanistan campaign has been a tiresome replay of YUGOSLAVIA in '99; IRAQ in '91, and PANAMA in '89. Massive bombing, minimal casualties on our side, and Megadeath to the enemy of the day. Will the number of civilians killed in Afghanistan rival the dead of New York? Given the fact that unexploded CLUSTER BOMBS go on killing for years to come, it's certainly possible. Meanwhile, the TALIBAN, like Milosovic and Noreaga, caves in after a few weeks of bombing, without putting up a real fight.
pockets of resistance come not from the socialist left but from the deranged RELIGIOUS RIGHT. The wild-eyed mullahs are pathetically incapable of mounting an effective, sustained campaign against capitalism, and their religious fanaticism and rejection of equality and fundamental human rights have long made it impossible for the American left--even its daffiest fringe--to sympathize with their cause, even before the attack on September 11. In fact, the only non-Muslim Americans to take their side come from the neo-Nazi and religious right, not from left-wing pseudo-revolutionaries. Despite their horrible effectiveness in New York and Washington, we think the actual MILITARY power (including terrorism) of Islamic fundamentalism is greatly exaggerated. Rest ...