News Roundup - Hour 2
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2010-10-08/news-roundup-hour-2
The U.S. apologizes for a coalition helicopter attack that killed Pakistani soldiers; Iraq makes progress on efforts to form a new government; and the threat of terror attacks in Europe remains high. A panel of journalists joins guest host Susan Page for analysis of the week's top international news stories.
Guests
Moises Naim
chief international columnist, El Pais.
Karen DeYoung
senior diplomatic correspondent, The Washington Post.
Hisham Melhem
Washington bureau chief for Al-Arabiya TV, and Washington correspondent for "An-Nahar"
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President Obama is doing what he said he would do in regards to Pakistan. During the presidential debates he was criticized by Sen. McCain for saying if the Pakistan government can't or won't address al Queda's safe havens, we will. It's now going on 10 years and billions of dollars to Pakistan. So?
Please don't neglect last weekend's elections in Brazil and Bosnia. I listen to WAMU all the time, but haven't heard
a word! None of the major networks nor cable news networks
seem to have even announced the results---let alone discuss why these are important.
I am very sick of hearing all the minute details of life in Africa,
Pakistan, Afghanistan, and even Iraq and Iran. Enough
already! There's a big world out there!
Please don't neglect last weekend's elections in Brazil and Bosnia. I listen to WAMU all the time, but haven't heard
a word! None of the major networks nor cable news networks
seem to have even announced the results---let alone discuss why these are important.
I am very sick of hearing all the minute details of life in Africa,
Pakistan, Afghanistan, and even Iraq and Iran. Enough
already! There's a big world out there!
I just tuned in not too long ago but am saddened to hear that the tone of this program is just Pakistan Bashing!!! Its sad hear how the government and people of afghanistan have forgotten how it was pakistan that opened its borders to millions of its citizens who up until now are sucking the resources of an already poor country....
Penelope Garner: If Susan Page were going to discuss elections in Brazil and Bosnia, or any other place, different commentators would have had to be recruited. It's a shame drshow has gotten a reputation of being an "inside the beltway romp." This is not so over the long run, but may be a current tendency.
Why? Well maybe I'm not in DC anymore but I think it has to do with budget prominence, corporate profits and party intransigence. We are wasting record amounts in Afghanistan/Pakistan and contractors are raking in record revenues from government. War and national security are elevated as political issues because the people in power don't want to discuss urgent domestic issues. (This has long been so.)
Our forces over there are in jeopardy because of supply line problems, being in an alien place so far away, and the neglect and malfeasance of contractors and the governmental personnel who hire contractors and verify their actions. This occupation is not for women's rights and may blow up or get out of control any day. Reporters are fixated on this hot potato for those reasons. Bosnia and Brazil are comparatively rather cool of late. Maybe the demographers have surmised that the ill-informed American public has not has its interests widely directed, but honed in on the current violence, which is the nature of the media business. NPR used to be better than this and capable of leading the audience, but I think corporate bottom lines ascended in importance once they were doped with big corporate money. (rather than our measily pledges)