It is difficult to see how a clear victory can be declared in this situation
Financial markets are on tenterhooks wondering what will be the broad implications of America's war on terrorism. The unusual circumstances surrounding the conflict all but confound prediction. Who is the enemy? Certainly, terrorist organisations qualify. And implied in the rhetoric from Washington and London, the Taliban regime, ruler of most of Afghanistan, is also the foe. At the time of writing, no government has declared war directly on the Taliban. That cannot be said of the news media. Television news declared war on the Taliban almost immediately after the attacks on the World T...
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