News Roundup - Hour 2
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2010-11-12/news-roundup-hour-2
Iraq agrees to form a government eight months after national elections. The U.S. fails to reach agreement on a long-awaited trade deal with South Korea. And British investigators conclude a foiled parcel bomb was timed to explode over the eastern seaboard. A panel of journalists joins guest host Susan Page for analysis of the week's top international news stories.
Guests
Rajiv Chandrasekaran
senior correspondent and associate editor at The Washington Post.
Nancy Youssef
Pentagon correspondent, McClatchy newspapers.
David Sanger
chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times, author of "The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power."
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I am looking forward to the discussion of Iraq this morning, however, after the way the press got the Status of Forces Agreement so wrong for so long, I do hope today's guests will take care with their words. As The Common Ills has pointed out, Nouri al Maliki is not the "new prime minister." Per the Constitution's Article 76, he is the prime minister delegate and now has 30 days to become the prime minister. From the Iraq constitution:
First: The President of the Republic shall charge the nominee of the largest
Council of Representatives bloc with the formation of the Council of Ministers
within fifteen days from the date of the election of the President of the Republic.
Second: The Prime Minister-designate shall undertake the naming of the members
of his Council of Ministers within a period not to exceed thirty days from the date
of his designation.
Third: If the Prime Minister-designate fails to form the Council of Ministers
during the period specified in clause “Second,” the President of the Republic shall
charge a new nominee for the post of Prime Minister within fifteen days.
Fourth: The Prime Minister-designate shall present the names of his members of
the Council of Ministers and the ministerial program to the Council of
Representatives. He is deemed to have gained its confidence upon the approval,
by an absolute majority of the Council of Representatives, of the individual
Ministers and the ministerial program.
Fifth: The President of the Republic shall charge another nominee to form the
Council of Ministers within fifteen days in case the Council of Ministers did not
win the vote of confidence.
PLEASE stop perpetuating the term shellacking. It implies the democrats are permanently varnished and immobile. The election is over, let's move-on.
On Israel/Palestine, and the ongoing dance over Israel's illegal building in the occupied territories, what kind of movement and change can be expected when SOS Clinton emphasizes the agreement on goals with Israel, Biden speaks often about "no daylight" between Israel and the US, and Obama fails to put any muscle behind his platitudes for 'peace'? Where is the exercise in political muscle. The US acts like a beggar when in facts it has much leverage it could exercise; nearly 4 billion in foreign aid for starters. Do the realities of domestic US politics render administration peace rhetoric defacto a charade? And, as General Petraeus has said, doesn't this situation have real implications for US, not just Israel's, national security? Arguments over 'settlement growth', while salient, seem like a distracting sideshow.
David .. the iphone is made in CHINA! What do they buy that we make in the US?
I think David just made the stupidest comment I have ever heard on The Diane Rehm Show. The Iphone is manufactured in TAIWAN along with everything else apple sells. Get a clue.