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"Pakistan: Jihadists kill three women accused of supporting government, blow up two schools" SNIPPET: "MINGORA: Three women were killed in Swat on Thursday as Taliban continued their attack on people they consider to be pro-government. The militants also blew up two government schools. The women, Zarmina, Zarbibi and Farzana, were killed and three men were kidnapped when militants stormed their house in Dagai village and accused them of supporting security personnel manning the nearby Wenai bridge post. The girls’ primary school and boys’ high school were blown up in Nazarabad area of Matta."

Flying back home on the day the NATO summit opened in Istanbul, I came across an article by a British journalist, Charles Clover, in the venerable Financial Times. In it, the author blasted the American military in astonishingly vitriolic language. He described our troops as “socially maladjusted” and “natural-born killers” that have become "socially maladjusted" and "natural-born killers" that have become "America’s main international liability.” My first reaction was that, had Mr. Clover’s screed been published earlier, he might have secured a feature role as a talking head in Michael Moore’s new anti-Bush demagoguementary. My second reaction was to contrast...