News Roundup - Hour 2
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2010-09-17/news-roundup-hour-2
The Taliban in Afghanistan threatens to disrupt parliamentary elections. Iran releases an American hiker. And Palestinian leader Abbas affirms continuing peace talks. A panel of journalists joins Diane for analysis of the week's top international news stories.
Guests
Tom Gjelten
correspondent, NPR, and author of "Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba: The Biography of a Cause."
Elise Labott
senior State Department producer for CNN.
David Ignatius
columnist, The Washington Post; co-moderator of "PostGlobal" on washingtonpost.com.
Comments
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Why is there such a debate about domestic finances when we have no problems financing unending wars?
Mexico just celebrated their bicentennial. Chile will do so this weekend. Over the next decade, many of the nations in the Americas will do likewise. Any comment on the state of the rest of this continent given 200 years of nation building that have happened? Outlook?
I'd like to comment on the trade deficit comment made just now against China. Yes, perhaps half of the US trade deficit comes from China. But if you looked further into the data, the majority of that deficit comes from factory orders, which helps lower the cost of US manufacturing goods, which helps keep those US jobs.
This kind of comment on radio is not helping the US centiment against China, which is spending a lot money on US goods and services here in the US. I'd like to see statistics published on how much tuition here is paid by Chinese students, etc. You'll start to see the picture.
Sincerely,
Hong from Ann Arbor
Love the News Roundup but could we please have a lot less David Ignatius and a lot more Yochi Dreazen, John Dickerson, Glenn Greenwald, Bruce Bartlett, Dean Baker. David Plotz of Salon would make an interesting panelist for the first hour as well.
The Pope's comments about atheist Nazis were countered by a panelist who said they were not atheists but Lutherans, and nobody questioned this. Hitler forbade chaplains in his combat divisions, only grudingly allowed them elsewhere in the military, and a ways into the War he closed the chaplain school, thereby shutting off the channel for any more chaplains. The Nazi leadership had to tolerate religion at least until they won the War. If Hitler truly had a religion, it was a mix of Nordic myth and Nietschean philosophy. I'm not Catholic, but must say that the Pope is both German and elderly. He knows Nazism much better than anyone on Friday's show.
$18-million doesn't sound like a lot of money to your commentator ??
No wonder the MSM is considered out of touch with Main Street.
$18-million could have been used to help the Haitian Catholics.
$18-million could have been used to help the Pakistani flood victims.
Instead, the Pope spends $18-million to go to England to apologize
for the Vatican's criminal activities against children.
Give me a break !