Friday News Roundup - International
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2013-03-15/friday-news-roundup-international
The U.S. commander in Afghanistan cautions troops to brace for violence. The warning comes after a series of anti-American statements by Afghan president Hamid Karzai. Britain and France signal they will arm Syrian rebels unless the European Union lifts a blanket arms embargo of the country. European leaders meeting at a summit in Brussels stick to a course of austerity. China’s new president promises to root out corruption in the Communist party. President Barack Obama names a new ambassador to Libya. And Roman Catholics wait to see what course the new pontiff, Pope Francis, will take. A panel of journalists joins guest host Susan Page for analysis of the week's top international news stories.
Guests
David Sanger
chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times and author of "Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power."
Anne Gearan
diplomatic correspondent for The Washington Post.
Martin Walker
chief international affairs columnist for United Press International, senior director of the Global Business Policy Council and senior fellow at The Woodrow Wilson Center.
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Sen Feinstein should have replied to the "lecture" by saying:
These weapons are the equivalent to crying "fire" in a crowded theater."
All of the Bill of Rights freedoms have limits. No liberty is unlimited. Commercial speech is also limited in its protection under the First Amendment.
Ted
President Obama visits Israel nextweek. Can we expect any positive advance in the Palestinian/Israeli conflict? Could this trip do more harm than good?
Students of China and folks who have experienced the society there can rightly say that a population of 1.5 billion is hardly monolithic and comments which try to sum up approaches to the people there must avoid generalizations.
Their current government is surely much different in attitudes and approach than the days of Mau. e.g.Remnants of the Red Guard may still be present but discarded as impractical. If any generalizations are possible, one might choose to say the people are very practical, very nationalistic (or more correctly, regionalistic), and far more driven by survival than by ideology. e.g.Cyber attacks would probably be viewed there as merely fair game and just expressions of competetivness rather than some attempt to indoctrinate other cultures in some "ism". To compete successfully is considered good sense.......just another offshoot of western capitalistic urges (though they would not currently label it as such). They do value creativity and initiative and readiness to utilize any new promising venue. "Ching tyan pi li" (from a clear blue sky) ..... meaning flashes of insight are to be respected and taken advantage of.
The liberal agenda in Frank’s comments is certainly present, but hidden; the money saved due to cuts to the military, to a liberal, should be used to bolster our own safety net. The grammar of the remark seems most interested however, in channeling the ‘welfare queen’ brand of conservative resentment toward Western Europe. Now I won’t say that getting a conservative to hate the socialist-Gomorrah EU is much of a challenge; it isn’t, but if in doing so, he can convince them to soften on a military budget that has nearly doubled since 2001, he has earned the applause of either party.
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