Friday News Roundup - International
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2012-03-09/friday-news-roundup-international
Greece’s creditors agreed to an historic restructuring of the government’s debt, setting the stage for another bailout. The leader of Syria’s main opposition group rejected calls by U.N. envoy Kofi Annan for dialogue with President Assad’s government. Six world powers demanded Iran let international inspectors visit an army site where atomic bomb tests may have taken place. Russian opposition activists pledged more protests until Vladmir Putin’s inauguration. And a social media campaign shines a light on Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony. Yochi Dreazen of National Journal, Susan Glasser of Foreign Policy magazine and Hisham Melhem of Al-Arabiya join Diane for analysis of the week's top international news stories.
Guests
Yochi Dreazen
senior national security correspondent, National Journal magazine.
Susan Glasser
editor-in-chief, Foreign Policy.
Hisham Melhem
Washington bureau chief, Al-Arabiya News Channel.
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What of Asma Al-Assad?
Do we know if she is in Syria? What is she doing to stop this?
What of the you-tube video's and interviews she has done talking about human rights, womens rights, safety for children?
I find it ironic that the Arab world is always yelling about taking America down, yet when there is anything that goes wrong, who do they turn to first?
We need to stay out of Syria and Iran. We don't have the funds or the will to "fix" this. Saudi Arabia has how many trillions of our dollars and war planes. Let them do it for once.
I wish the muslim commentator was so passionate about syria as he is in condeming israel.
Thank you for welcoming Hisham Melhem to your show. He is making a lot more sense than most of the voices we hear on the mainstream media regarding the triangular Iran, Israel, U.S. politics. Israel is playing the politics of the U.S. presidential election year to their own advantage. That makes perfect sense to me. Thank you for this perspective.
The added information now coming out about Kony is very welcome. However, it is a bit ingenious for reporters to criticize a NPO video when the same audience for the video would have likely been as enraged and motivated if this story had been prominent in the media years ago. Praises to President Obama for taking action - without a media surge.
The idea that "no one cared" when Obama sent troops to Uganda is simply not true. Rush Limbaugh cared. He cared enough to defend Koni and the LRA. Going as far as saying "Obama invades Uganda targets Christians".
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2011/10/14/obama_invades_uganda_target...
I admire the power of a photo (above) to bring home the true cost of the Syrian conflict.
It reminds me how many Americans have seemed to show little or no concern for the "collateral damage" of our military "adventures" in Iraq, et al.
Wonderful that your Guests want the U.S. to come to the aid of Syria and Uganda.
I suggest your guests join together with all other like-minded Americans..... and militarily intervene using THEIR money.
In case you haven't noticed, the U.S. can't afford this anymore.
Let the cowardly Turks take up the fight.
The killing of US-citizens came up again. This happened a while ago, but i see that people still cannot see it from a foreigners perspective.
The USA have been killing (or murdering, assassinating, removing or what ever you want to term it) people around the world for year. Many of them in and/or from countries that do not approve of those actions.
Now that it was an American citizen all of a sudden people (other US citizens) are in an uproar as if they are something special and the passport they had was some kind of 'can't touch me' sign. Think about the people that are from the same countries where people have been killed, and how they feel.
This is exactly the reason that none-US citizens have such an easy time disliking or even hating American-superiourity-attitude.
I am living in the US (legally) and am in the process of becoming a US-citizen. I really like the US, its people and I want to live here forever; but this attitude is a problem for many people that don't know US-citizens as well as I do.
I have been to Syria .. I agree completely with John McCain .. it is disgraceful after one year of murder and maiming to fail to do anything to stop the dictator .. it is just cowardice ..
Now more talk talk talk .. and who is in charge of the new talking ? Kofi Annan who said he opposes action to stop Assad .. Kofi Annan was in charge in Rwanda and did the same there ..
"The Rwandan Genocide took place in 1994 while Annan directed UN Peacekeeping Operations. In 2003 Canadian ex-General Roméo Dallaire, who was force commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda, claimed that Annan was overly passive in his response to the imminent genocide. In his book Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda (2003), General Dallaire asserted that Annan held back UN troops from intervening to settle the conflict, and from providing more logistical and material support. Dallaire claimed that Annan failed to provide responses to his repeated faxes asking for access to a weapons depository; such weapons could have helped Dallaire defend the endangered Tutsis. In 2004, ten years after the genocide in which an estimated 800,000 people were killed, Annan said, "I could and should have done more to sound the alarm and rally support."
The international community should create a safe haven for these unfortunate victims of a vicious, horrific, genocidal kakistocracy. It should also train and arm them so they can defend themselves and eventually overthrow Assad and his cabal. It is a shame the world community doesn't have the fortitude to rid the world of this horrid, tinpot dictator. I applaud Senator John McCain for advocating the forcible removal of this evil man, Assad. Assad will soon match and exceed the massacres of his father committed in 1982. The world should not let him.