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Eye on the World: Friday, May 25, 2012
Newly-elected French President Francois Hollande has promised the withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan this year, and the rest of NATO plans to withdraw by 2014. So does that mean Afghanistan will be left high and dry? NATO says “no,” noting that Afghan Army forces have been making steady progress, and will be slowly taking over sole responsibility for maintaining security in the country.
“God is present – in Kabul, and everywhere” asserts that the Middle East – and Afghanistan in particular – is not doomed to a cycle of instability and guerrilla warfare. Instead, the author writes, our prayers to see God’s government in that region can awaken people’s thinking and give courage and purpose to “those standing for what is true and upright.”
The disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz in New York City in 1979 became one of the most widely-discussed missing child cases in the US. Though Patz’s case had never been solved, it resulted in improved legislation for tracking down missing children, and Patz became the first missing child to be featured on a milk carton. This week, a former convenience-store clerk from Patz’s neighborhood confessed to having killed him and was arrested by police, raising the possibility that the 33-year-old case may finally be closed.
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