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Reflections on "Containment"
Cumings, Bruce | March 4, 2002 issue

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The U.S. administration fresh from chasing callow Taliban youths from power, restoring Afghanistan's politics to the warlord era circa 1995 and failing to find Osama Bin Laden or root out Al Qaeda's terror network, leaps forward with new demons, an axis of evil running from Pyongyang to Baghdad to Teheran. After terrorist attacks of the September 11, 2001, everything had changed. Various countries pledged soldiers, bases and funds to the war in Afghanistan. It looked like Russia and China had joined the United States and its allies in the common task of a global struggle against terrorism, and that a rare unity had cut across the old divisions of world politics.

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WORLD politics; INTERNATIONAL relations; TERRORISM; SOLDIERS; AFGHANISTAN; UNITED States
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