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Article: SCHOOLS, NOT TANKS, FOR PAKISTAN.(Editorial)(Column)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- November 15, 2001
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Byline: THOMAS L. FRIEDMANSyndicated columnist
PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- You need only spend an afternoon walking through the Storytellers' Bazaar here in Peshawar, a few miles from the Afghan border, to understand that America needs to do its business in Afghanistan - eliminate Osama bin Laden and his Taliban protectors - as quickly as possible and get out of here.
This is not a neighborhood where we should linger. This is not Mr. Rogers' neighborhood.
What makes me say that? I don't know, maybe it was the street vendor who asked me exactly what color Osama bin Laden T-shirt I wanted - the yellow one with his picture on it or the white one ...