Why They Hate Us  Voices From Pakistan  PESHAWARIt is three days
before the U.S. launched its first bombs into Afghanistan, and
the workday has just ended in this Pakistani city on the
Afghanistan border. A group of laborers and shopkeepers gathers,
and talk turns to Osama bin Laden and the coming attacks against
the Taliban. One after another, the men take turns denouncing
the U.S. Some arguments are carefully reasoned; others, innuendo
and rumor. Slowly the crowd's fervor builds. Men begin to push
forward, their eyes furious, veins bulging in their necks. They
call Bin Laden their brother, their hero. An American decides it
is time to take his leave. As he stands, a shopkeeper has one
last declaration: "This is a war between you and us," he says.
"We will go on jihad, and we will win."  The man's readiness to
die in a holy war may be an anomaly in this country of 140
million; his hostility toward the United States is not. Once the
cornerstone of U.S. South Asia policy, Pakistan today must be
bribed and brow