News Roundup - Hour 2
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2010-04-30/news-roundup-hour-2
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown preparing notes before the 2008 G8 meeting
Downing Street photostream via Flickr
The E.U. and I.M.F. seek to address the debt crisis in Europe, a gaffe by Britain's prime minister adds to his re-election difficulties and the leaders of India and Pakistan meet for the first time in months. A panel of journalists joins Diane for analysis of the week's top international news stories.
Guests
Moises Naim
editor in chief, "Foreign Policy" magazine.
Nancy Youssef
Pentagon correspondent, McClatchy newspapers.
Daniel Dombey
U.S. diplomatic correspondent, "Financial Times"
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wasn't the euro always an impossible idea since any country can borrow big but spread the bill -- sort of like the banks that are too big to fail
How explosive is the situation in Britain? Is there an estimate on how many would-be voters will abstain because they're disgusted with all official political parties? The people oppose the wars, the economy is in very bad shape, and the New Labour Party doesn't represent workers any more at all.
Hmmm....Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud is alive? Another failure of our intelligence or the Obama administration intentionally releasing dubious information for political purposes when they know they had very "thin" intelligence. The upshot? Big news when its thought he was killed, a blip on the radar when it turns out he is still alive.
I want to point out the validity of Drones which carry "legalized executions" without due process, but also the quality of that which we place on their ability to complete unmanned missions where in carrying out these "sentences", the collateral damage is taken as par for the course and repeatedly the mission fails. Not only does this program cost increasingly more and more money, but on the ground I cannot imagine how this does not propagate JUSTIFIED anti-american sentiment. I know if my family was part of "collateral damage" I would want to take up arms.
I expect that Qsama b is quite comfortable in Saudi Arabia...