Friday News Roundup - International
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2011-12-16/friday-news-roundup-international
Nearly nine years after America attacked Iraq, the Pentagon declares an official end to its mission there. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta marked the occasion at a ceremony in Baghdad. The euro inches up against the dollar, but its outlook is clouded by a Standard and Poors ratings threat. Russian President Putin’s approval ratings tank as he faces the largest protests in Moscow since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Iran rejects a U.S. request to return a drone that Tehran says it brought down earlier this month. And the U.N. reports 5,000 civilians have died in Syrian government crackdowns. 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."
Nadia Bilbassy
senior U.S. correspondent, MBC TV -- Middle East Broadcast Centre.
Robin Harding
U.S. economics editor, The Financial Times.
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For more on this topic, the documentary "Buying the War" by Bill Moyer on the role of the media is damning and to be recommended.
John McNally
I would like to know if your guest's think that intervention by other countries like the US have stopped the natural political evolution of a country. The US is notorious in manilpulating other country's politics for decades and the country never seems to evolve on their own. Has America actually ever really helped a country it's intervention ???? I know we try to take credit all the time but ???