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Another possibility, short of putting U.S. personnel on the ground, was to issue a blunt ultimatum to the Taliban, backed by a readiness to at least launch an indefinite air campaign to disable that regime's limited military capabilities and tip the balance in Afghanistan's ongoing civil war.
The Iraq crisis taught the world two lessons, according to the cover editorial: 1) Diplomacy must be backed with the threat of violence.
Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany backed Franco’s Nationalists, while the Soviet Union supported the Republicans (although less and less towards the end of the war).
The story, by its Berlin correspondent, Ian Traynor, said that "large parts of formerly communist east Germany are becoming virtual no-go areas for foreigners and German 'outsiders' as support for racist, neo-Nazi ideology, backed by violence, intimidation and clandestine propaganda, grows rapidly across the region, say experts, researchers and social workers."
The NYT lead, also fronted by the WP , says that the Senate voted 50-47 to quash a health care bill backed by the Democrats.