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Lessons from Northern Ireland and the Hindu Kush

I'm coming to think that Salon has some of the best coverage of recent events in this terrorist attack war thing, or whatever it might eventually be called. Andrew Brown writes:

"In the end, you reach the goal of 'no more terrorists' not when they are all dead, but when some are dead, some have stopped terrorism and no new young men are coming along to take their places in the organization. That leads to maybe the hardest lesson to swallow: 'Terrorist' is not a lifetime badge."

Then there's this note: "The last army to win in Afghanistan was that of Alexander the Great; everyone else has got mauled and pulled out."

Yesterday, Salon published two of the most chilling pieces I've read about the site of the former World Trade Center towers.

Salon is an online magazine that is well worth reading, even in times not of crisis. They have a "premium" service you can subscribe to for much less than some print magazines (even those with far less and far worse content) charge -- and Salon Premium even gets rid of the ads for you. I'd encourage you to subscribe and help support the publication; it's one of the few not owned by some media giant, and it has had some financial trouble lately. It could use your support, and you'll learn things.

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