Friday News Roundup - Hour 2
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2011-10-21/friday-news-roundup-hour-2
The “Mad Dog of the Middle East” – Muammar Gadhafi is killed – as Libyan rebels celebrated the end of an era; just days before, U.S Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited Libya and pledged political and economic support for the transitional government; the Greek parliament passed a new round of austerity measures amid growing violence; the U.S announced it was sending military advisors to Uganda; and Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit returned home to a hero’s welcome after being held for five years by Hamas. A panel of journalists joins Diane for analysis of the week's top international news stories.
Guests
David Ignatius
columnist, The Washington Post; contributor to “Post Partisan” blog on washingtonpost.com. His latest book is titled "Bloodmoney: A Novel of Espionage."
Nancy Youssef
Pentagon correspondent, McClatchy newspapers.
Yochi Dreazen
senior national security correspondent, National Journal magazine.
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NOW THAT LIBYA IS STABILIZED: ROLE FOR BRITISH COMMONWEALTH??
With the United States tied up in 2 other major overseas country-building missions- Iraq and Afghanistan- for the foreseeable future, surely now, for once since the end of WWII, some of the many countries & associations of countries that have hugely benefited from over 6-decades of the U.S.'s principled largess and her laudable willingness to play a leading, responsible global-role will "step up to the plate" & do what is plainly called for in Libya...
If ever there was an international mission & CONSTRUCTIVE, NEEDED PURPOSE for the British Commonwealth, surely assisting Libya's brave leaders with the establishment of:
1) a Charter of Rights & Freedoms for Libya; &
2) human-rights based, democratic, universal-suffrage governance structures; &
3) a merit-based civil service; &
4) an equitable legal system based on 'principles of fundamental justice'...
... is one!!
Another could be Commonwealth nations with demonstrated-as-functional legal systems- such as the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand- assisting putting in place the infrastructures required for a working court and civil-dispute system in Libya...
Leaving Libya a better place for ALL of its peoples- than before the west's/NATO's intervention supporting Libya's laudable freedom fighters- ought to be assertively- and generously- strived for by intervening nations as well as by international organizations that possess expertise in democracy, good governance & establishing equitable, human rights-based legal systems- such as the British Commonwealth...
Even UN Security Council permanent members Russia & China could play significant constructive roles building the 'new' Libya... now that there has been a defacto 'change of regime' in Libya & hostilities have ceased...
Mr. Roderick V. Louis
Vancouver, BC, Canada
PART 2:
By 'setting a constructive, positive example' loudly publicly endorsing and substantially assisting Libya's peoples' attempts to make a better country for themselves, international organizations such as the British Commonwealth and, more importantly- NATO and the UN Security Council's permanent 5 members- would send an unequivocal message to tyrants in the middle east's other despotic dictatorships: "enable positive changes in the way your countries are governed and in the basic rights your countries' peoples experience!!"
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Mr. Roderick V. Louis,
Vancouver, BC, Canada
I found it especially disgusting watching one MSM host after the next gloat over the gruesome pictures of a bloody and alive Gadhafi with a bullet hole in his head and then bloody pictures of him dead with people around basicaly mauling him. This is the birth of democracy.
disgusting
Obamas drones try to kill Gadhafi the very dictator that a month before he said he was not trying to kill. Gadhafi then left to be executed by Libyan rebels. US MSM host gloat as they display gruesome bloody images of a live then dead Gadhafi with a bullet hole in his head. And this is called the birth of a democracy...civilization...killing for peace. All so absurd
This is change I don't believe in
msnbc's Richard Engel was gloating last night on Rachel Maddows as he described why Gadhafi had tried to make a deal with the US, had shared information after 9/11 with the US, paid retribution for Pan Am Lockerbie,broke down his alleged nuclear weapon program. Engel gloated as he said Gadhafi had had an epiphany when he saw Saddam Hussein pulled from a hole in the ground. Engel continued to gloat as he said that Gadhafi had been pulled from that drainage pipe. Gloating as he said Gadhafi was killed.
So this is the message that other dictators are receiving as they watch Gadhafi's dead and bloodied body shown over and over again in the MSM. and hear one MSM hypocrite after the next gloat about the execution. Make a deal with the very country who used to support you and this is what you get. Richard Engel was sickening.
I have been a die hard Dem since I was 18 (now 59).I have been listening to Romney very closely because I am so disgusted with Obama. No way can I vote for Romney (his economic plan), don't think we will get much different with health care from him. But Obama has been such a dissapointment especially in regard to holding anyone accountable for the bloody immoral invasion of Iraq, torture, wiretapping and now his killing for peace agenda. Peace in the form of drones. No due process. This is truly change I do not believe in. This is the first time in my life that I am not only thinking about not helping the Dems but not voting.
All the evidence points to a forthcoming bloodbath. Can the international community take the weapons off the Libyan streets?!
Ghalid Shalats name, pictures of his release are being mentioned and shown all over our MSM. . Diane announced his release in the international round up opening. But not one Palestinian name not one face of the close to a thousand being released by the Israeli government. Nameless faceless Palestinians. Just one more sign of the racism that exists in peoples attitudes having to do with the I/P issue
"For US, Gadhafi’s Death a Laughing Matter
Chuckling Hillary Mocks Slain Dictator"
http://news.antiwar.com/2011/10/20/for-us-gadhafis-death-a-laughing-matter/
The way Gadhafi's live and then dead bloody body has been shown all over the US MSM yesterday and this morning reminded me of a Roman colesium where the public watched and cheered the brutal deaths of others. The host of many of these shows were gloating and celebrating his death by it sure looked like an execution. This is what the world has come to? This is what an emerging democracy looks like. Libya must have been taking notes when Saddam was caught and executed. I am disgusted by the whole thing. Gadhafi should have been put on trial.
But of course the US and other Nato nations did not want this because he would have pointed right at those who have supported this mad man for decades. Could not have that. So they allowed those he had committed crimes against to execute him for all the world to see.
those missing weapons have all ready been sold far and wide
I simply want to applaud Diane for the long over-due chastisement (in her respectful yet impossible to ignore manner) of this phenomena that has gone viral, which is dropping the titles of OUR leaders whether we agree with their political stance or not. I used to cringe every time I heard President Bush, the son, refer to President Putin as "Vladimir"; and now we have Hilliary, Barack, - shouting out "you lie" in the most inappropriate setting. These liberties we take have nothing to do with freedom of speech and everything to do with the demise of a nation. This is a very basic concept, like "first do no harm". Respectfully.
Thank you Diane for speaking up and out!
" kathleen wrote:
Ghalid Shalats name, pictures of his release are being mentioned and shown all over our MSM. . Diane announced his release in the international round up opening. But not one Palestinian name not one face of the close to a thousand being released by the Israeli government. Nameless faceless Palestinians. Just one more sign of the racism that exists in peoples attitudes having to do with the I/P issue
October 21, 2011 - 11:17 am"
They did interview Barghouti's(sp) Wife, who was still pretty pissed, bellicose and unforgiving.
The Jews really pulled a fast one anyhow when they killed about 1000 Gazan Civilians under the pretext of trying "to force Hamas to release the Jew" then finally trading 1000 prisoners for him.
For full Justice, Hamas should have killed 999 Jews to make it a square deal.
Monte Haun mchaun@hotmail.com
@MrRoderickvLouis
I was under the impression that it was the French who had the strongest/most respected voice in Europe towards north africa. Am I wrong or do you believe that the French simply lack the means and/or willpower to try to force your suggestion through a society that very much isnt one society??