Turmoil in the Muslim World
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Turmoil in the Muslim World
September 11--and the prospect of U.S. reprisals--widen the fault lines across
many Islamic nations
Across most of America, life is starting to return to
normal as the nation absorbs the shock of the
September 11 terrorist attacks in New York and
Washington and mourns the victims. Not so in the
Islamic world. The aftershocks of the disaster--and
the certainty of U.S. military retaliation--are
aggravating dangerous social, political, …
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…young adherents. And although Saudi
Arabia and Kuwait still sit on vast oil wealth and host thousands of U.S.
troops, geriatric governments that have failed to set up political successions are
producing widespread resentment. All of this makes it imperative that any U.S.
military strike cause minimal casualties to civilians. As it is, dealing with the
fallout of war in the Muslim world will emerge as one of Washington's biggest
foreign policy challenges.
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