News Roundup - Hour 2
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2010-08-13/news-roundup-hour-2
Many roads in Swat are now completely damaged which makes it hard for people to travel and for aid workers to deliver much needed supplies. In this picture two young men are helping an old woman to walk through a path, which was completely submerged.
Qasim Berech for Oxfam International via Flickr
The Friday News Roundup. The U-N appeals for four-hundred-sixty-million dollars to aid flood victims in Pakistan. Insurgents are blamed for the jump in Afghan civilian casualties. And Russian fires raise nuclear fears.
Guests
Daniel Dombey
U.S. diplomatic correspondent, Financial Times.
Susan Glasser
executive editor, Foreign Policy.
Yochi Dreazen
senior national security correspondent, National Journal magazine.
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I wonder whether we will finally be able to leave any of these war fronts when the corporations to which we have outsourced this war - for example Halliburton, the group formerly known as Blackwater,etc. - tell us that they have extracted all of the profit they need or want from the countries in question and from the American taxpayer?
My name is Aida Fachinelli I'm from Ohio,
As an admirer of your show because it does provide one of the few available platforms for dialog between people with different points of view, I am listening to your show today and cannot help being disappointed by some of the Obaba bashing I hear, not based on true fact.
While we are going through what appears to be one of the most serious economical challenges in America’s history and a all our efforts need to be focused of what is best for the country I believe that Republican Party leadership with enthusiastic support from the media are involved in an effort to blind the American People. I cannot believe that all Republicans are as divisive and would like to see some of them stand up against this radicalization within their midst. This is a time to put out heads together and do the best for the country. The main effort I see now in the media is in denying any success this administration is achieving and, with a touch of discrimination, unite al the fear, rage, and hate in the country to further paralyze any progress we as a nation can achieve. At the end of the day this is not a country of the Democrats or of the Republicans It is a country of all of us.
Sincerely yours.
Aida Fachinelli
West Unity OHIO
Whatever the intent (and no doubt excuses can be made), this program came off like a string of reasons not to give to Pakistan relief. There are many effective international aid groups that aren't corrupt and need our support in this disaster. The suggestion that Americans won't give because of the bad economy, presented as though that would be justifiable, was also counterproductive. There are very few Americans, employed or not--especially among NPR listeners--who can't afford to give $10 to the Red Cross or some other group working in Pakistan. The need is great, by all means do give to Pakistan relief.
One simple way is to donate $10 to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees to help those in the Swat Valley in Pakistan, among the worst hit areas: just text "SWAT" to number 50555. The money will be put directly into tents, clothing, food, clean drinking water and medicine desperately needed for the millions suffering in that location.