Hostage Crisis In Algeria
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2013-01-17/hostage-crisis-algeria
Americans at an oil facility in Algeria were among a number of people taken hostage yesterday. An Islamic militant group has claimed responsibility. An update on the crisis.
Guests
Jean-Luc Marret
senior fellow at the Fondation pour la Recherche Strategique, a leading think tank on international security issues in France.
Daveed Gartenstein
senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
Robin Wright
journalist, joint fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson International Center, and author of "Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World."
Paul Pillar
director of graduate studies at the Center for Peace and Security Studies at Georgetown University and a former CIA National Intelligence officer.
Comments
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Your audience this morning is probably much smaller than usual. Most of us don't know Mali from Molly. Are you educating us or ginning us up for a new adventure? The proximal lesson is about the futility of bankrolling expensive sophisticated weapons systems while engaging in asymmetrical warfare. The distal lesson is about meddling overseas without weighing the consequences. (Where's Quaddafi?) I'm not hearing enough about these two things. Some poorer households are liable to see their indentured soldier deployed to these strange locales before too long. Some progressive Unitarian or Anglican will be getting out his crosses and arranging them in a vacant lot near the shopping district. But the pain we feel will be only at the tax preparer's, maybe at the gas pump. If we say no to corporate policing as a government service will the gunships and drones be turned on us?
"Your audience this morning is probably much smaller than usual. Most of us don't know Mali from Molly."
LOL! Good one, pancake!
There is a lesson to be learned from this kidnapping. The Obama phase of the "war on terror" has been and continues to be a miserable failure. "Al Qaida on the run" was a myth. OBL dead, so what? Four dead in Benghazi and Americans kidnapped in Mali is all anyone needs to know about the Obama policy of appeasement.