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Tue Sep-15-09 11:36 AM
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6. great quote from Globe columnist James Carroll

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/09/14/the_cloud_of_war/

Colin Powell famously echoed Tom Friedman’s Pottery Barn Rule: You break it, you own it. But Powell was wrong. We broke Iraq and Afghanistan, and now they own us. The main effect of our intervention in both places is that endemic conflicts (which predate our presence) are now being fought with unimaginably more lethal firepower. Especially dangerous is the Taliban’s transformation by its war with America from a crackpot cult with local reach into a mythic resistance force drawing ever wider support.

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