[DAWN] Taliban gunnies Wednesday denounced US plans to keep troops in Afghanistan until the end of 2016, threatening to wage war against the "occupation" until the very last foreign soldier pulls out.
Outlining the US strategy to end America's longest war, 15 years after the September 11 attacks, President Barack Obama I am the change that you seek... confirmed Tuesday that the 32,000-strong US deployment in Afghanistan would be scaled back to around 9,800 by the start of 2015.
Those forces would be halved by the end of 2015 before eventually being reduced to a normal embassy presence with a security assistance component by the end of 2016.
But underscoring the instability still roiling Afghanistan, two Americans were slightly maimed in an attack on a US consulate vehicle in Afghanistan's western city of Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... on Wednesday.
An unidentified gunman on a cycle of violence fired a rocket-propelled grenade at the US vehicle in Herat, five days after gunnies attacked an Indian diplomatic mission in the same city near the border with Iran.
Taliban gunnies responded to Obama's announcement by ruling out an end to fighting until a complete withdrawal of US forces had taken place -- a grim indicator that Afghanistan's long, bloody war is far from over.
"Now that Obama has announced that he will keep around 10,000 troops until the end of 2016 and continue their occupation, Afghanistan Islamic Emirate condemns it and considers it a violation of illusory sovereignty, religion and human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... ," said a Taliban statement.
The statement, which used the Death Eaters' name for the country, appeared to inflate the number of troops scheduled to remain under Obama's plan.
"The American leaders should do now what they plan to do two years later. Even if one American soldier is in Afghanistan, it is not acceptable to our nation and jihad (holy war) will continue against them."
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In a press release, the Taliban said 'Now that we're winning, you want to take your ball and go home. Wuss!'
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As per #1, moreso given ...
* TOPIX > [Daily Beast] AL QAEDA GROWS AS US WITHDRAWS.
All things equal, why not ditto for the Talibunnies, E-T-A-L, now id post-2014, US + Globalist-supported Nuclear goodness???
[Ynet] Former Egyptian army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sissi has captured 93.4 percent of the votes cast in 2,000 polling stations, his campaign team said in a statement on Wednesday.
His only rival Hamdeen Sabahi gained 2.9 percent, while 3.7 percent of the votes were deemed void.
[The Peninsula] Former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden, who leaked details of massive U.S. intelligence-gathering programs, said in a U.S. TV interview he "was trained as a spy" and had worked undercover overseas for U.S. government agencies.
In an advance excerpt of his interview in Moscow with "NBC Nightly News" that aired on Tuesday, Snowden rejected comments by critics that he was a low-level analyst.
"Well, it's no secret that the U.S. tends to get more and better intelligence out of computers nowadays than they do out of people," Snowden told NBC news anchor Brian Williams.
"I was trained as a spy in sort of the traditional sense of the word in that I lived and worked undercover overseas - pretending to work in a job that I'm not - and even being assigned a name that was not mine."
Describing himself as a "technical expert," Snowden said: "I don't work with people. I don't recruit agents. What I do is I put systems to work for the United States. And I've done that at all levels from - from the bottom on the ground all the way to the top."
He said he worked undercover overseas for both the CIA and NSA and lectured at the Joint Counterintelligence Training Academy "where I developed sources and methods for keeping our information and people secure in the most hostile and dangerous environments around the world."
"So when they (critics) say I'm a low-level systems administrator, that I don't know what I'm talking about, I'd say it's somewhat misleading," Snowden added.
Snowden, who fled to Hong Kong and then Moscow last year, is believed to have taken 1.7 million computerized documents. The leaked documents revealed massive programs run by the NSA that gathered information on emails, phone calls and Internet use by hundreds of millions of Americans.
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Reminds me of the Soviet Navy cook aboard the "RED OCTOBER" submarine.
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...who leaked details of massive U.S. intelligence-gathering programs, said in a U.S. TV interview he "was trained as a spy" and had worked undercover overseas for U.S. government agencies.
[Bloomberg] President Barack Obama Because I won... laid out a postwar strategy for his final years in office that would provide a more targeted approach to the scattered threat of terrorism while moving away from unilateral military action.
In a commencement speech at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, the U.S. president proposed a $5 billion fund for military counterterrorism operations. He also said he'll work with Congress to expand support for Syrian rebels, without committing publicly to U.S. military training for groups seeking to topple Bashir al-Assad's regime.
"America must always lead on the world stage," Obama said. "But U.S. military action cannot be the only -- or even primary -- component of our leadership in every instance. Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail."
Obama sought to give a clearer vision of his policy as he faces critics at home and abroad who have cast the president as weak and ineffective. He spoke today as the U.S. confronts international challenges with long-term consequences.
The Daily Caller reports that CNN reported that the president's speech met with an icy reception, and also that a Washington Post columnist on the Sunday talk shows pointed out that the VA scandal is a huge setback to the president's plans to turn the younger, more diverse military into a Democratic political stronghold. Who else d'you suppose knew he was into such long range planning?
Ace nails this and provides some of the better tweets going around...
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The Bammer's West Point speech is also getting mixed response from overseas allies.
* RELATED JAPAN TODAY > OBAMA SAYS US MUST LEAD GLOBALLY, BUT SHOW RESTRAINT.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > PRESS TV - US TO CONTINUE USING FORCE UNLATERALLY: OBAMA, espec as per support + defense of US-specific "core interests".
versus
* GLOBAL NATION PHIL > OBAMA WARNS [US ready for any China-led] AGGRESSION IN SOUTH CHINA SEA, but will continue to prefer or push for a diplomatic solution.
* WORLD NEWS > [Stars-N-Stripes] PACIFIC PIVOT MISSING FROM OBAMA'S WEST POINT SPEECH ON FOREIGN POLICY.
* SAME > [Noodls] FORBES: CHINA'S BEHAVIOR IN SOUTH CHINA SEA SHOWS NECESSITY FOR STRONG US PRESENCE IN ASIA-PACIFIC.
Russia has post-WW2, Cold War Germany; the US has
unified Vietnam.
SSSSSHHHH ...CCCCCCC DITTO NORTH KOREA FOR US???
* DRUDGEREPORT > [Washington Free Beacon] THREE CHINESE NUCLEAR MISSLE SUBS PHOTOGRAPHED IN SOUTH CHINA SEA [Hainan base].
Type "094"s aka "JIN"-class.
* IIRC GUAM PDN > [Guam Buildup = Okinawa Marines]LEVINE: NO MASTER PLAN, NO BUILDUP.
McCain + Levine are the last ones whom should be dissing Guam given their dark skeletons - AFAIC THEY'RE ALL BUT OFFICIALLY CALLING FOR GUAM [+ CNMI] TO BE DEFENCELESS + DEMANDING THE PLA ATTACK + INVADE, efffec putting the PLA in the deep rear behind US Forces + Allies in East Asia.
Will they feel the same iff China + PLA takeover Hawaii + minima 1/2 of CONUS-NORAM, including their home states???
ARIZONA - wasn't it, McCain???
I have to wonder how they'll handle NUCLEAR ISLAM.
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OOOOPPPPPSSS, forgot FREEREPUBLIC > [Rapper's Blog] EFFORTS CONTINUE TO MAKE PHILIPPINES 51ST US STATE.
57 US States, or 57 + 1???
Iff the Bammer is "their man" in Washington, now should be the time for the 57, or 57 + 1, to make their move on final self-determination = political status vee the US, SO WHY HASN'T THE BAMMER COME THROUGH???
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Cause, like, I won the war, and there isn't one (stupid Bush), but you might have to go to someplace like Algeria or Utah and fight terrorists, so pack your toothbrushes, even though more than half of you service academy types will be working for Fortune 500 companies within 6 years.
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How's that 'refocus' on the economy going? /sarc off
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We were told a couple years ago by this goof that "Terrorism is on the decline". As with gerbil-worming, we are now getting a different message based on the 'wished-for results' not matching the actual data.
We still need to have the 'best hammers' because, even though they may not fit his world-view', there are indeed a very lot of 'nails' to deal with.
Discount-house tools don't last very long for a truly professional carpenter. You can have really good ones or spend more over time to replace multiple worn out cheap ones.
I have Vaughan's based on recommendations from friends in the trade (plus they're kind of a 'local' manufacturer), yet I'm not a particularly masterful carpenter.
At least it looks like I know what I'm doing.
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Steven Green calls this administration "the Permanent Amateur Traveling Suckshow".
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The US is gonna have too since Obama's take on fighting "terror" is to spray gasoline over the low burning fire.
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Hey, you guys missed the point! He aimed the speech not at the Cadets, but his following - Pelosi, Reid, and ... Feinstein and - oh, yeah - Boxer. Is Dickey Durbin still on board?
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O needs to start with eliminating the jihadists and terrorists in the military. You know, the ones that were documented and discovered, but ignored by the Administration.
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What a disgrace that he was the commencement speaker at the Point and Biden the clown was at the Air Force Academy - the dynamic duo - NOT. I'm hoping for change that can't come soon enough.
An interesting concept. Those Rantburgers connected to a religious or community institution might want to explore the site with an eye to reapplying the learnings -- haters aren't always antisemites, and even antisemites sometimes make dangerously incorrect assumptions.
Trainers will include Department of Homeland Security officials and police from suburban Overland Park. Over 150 Jewish community professionals and lay leaders are expected to participate, according to KCTV5, a local TV news outlet.
Paul Goldenberg, SCN's director, said his group had accelerated similar programming in other communities across the country. He praised the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City, Kansas, and the local federation for putting the program together.
"Kansas City Jewish leaders have really shown how a community responds in the aftermath of a catastrophic event by building resilience and training members," Goldenberg told JTA.
On April 13, a gunman shot up the JCC in Overland Park and then at a nearby home for the aged, killing three people, including a 14-year-old boy. Frazier Glenn Cross, a white supremacist, is being held for the murders.
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Training to disarm an active gunmen? I noticed that they did not say how they are going to do this. Kansas has a concealed carry law. In addition to such training it might be good to obtain a carry permit and spend some time honing shooting skills. This is still a dangerous task--even for well-trained police.
LAHORE: Acknowledging that Pakistan is well-equipped to defend itself militarily, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday said the country should instead concentrate on economic progress. India will be.
India's economy is growing nicely. They can afford to concentrate on both.
The premier was addressing a gathering organised to mark the Youm-e-Takbeer. On this day in 1998, Pakistan became world's seventh nuclear power.
"What kind of nuclear power are we if we are still engulfed in darkness instead of light; we have illiteracy instead of education, we have more unemployed people than those with jobs and more terrorism and less peace," the prime minister remarked.
PM Nawaz said his government has been working hard from the very first day to ensure that people eventually have access to uninterrupted power supply. "We will not stop until we get rid of the curse of load-shedding from this country," he said.
Hopeful about ending the power crisis soon, the premier said his government is in talks with the Chinese leadership to set up more power plants to meet the country's energy demands.
"It is a big achievement that we have laid foundation of various power plants in less than a year since we came to power," Prime Minister Nawaz pointed out.
The premier remarked that he was not just responsible to bridge the current demand and supply gap but also responsible for ensuring that electricity requirement for the next 20 years were met as well. No way that common sense is going to win out.
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Also, India's population is growing at 1.4% per year far surpassing ChinaÂ’s rate of 0.7%. This differential will result in India's population size overtaking China's in less than 20 years.
With such a high population growth rate 5% GDP growth projected for 2014 is not great.
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Growth rate is not quality rate.
A hord of morons is still not desirable.
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India's military is hobbled by corruption and inefficiency.
AFAICT that statement would be valid for almost all militaries, now and throughout the past. So the question is how hobbled are they relative to their enemies.
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India's military is hobbled by corruption and inefficiency. Fixing that will be a tall order.
India's military society is hobbled by corruption and inefficiency. Fixing thatwill be a tall order is impossible due to the nature of their culture.
Also, India's population is growing at 1.4% per year far surpassing...
The bulk of this population growth is among the low IQ uneducated and illiterate peasant classes. As RJ points out, hoards of morons are not desirable.
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hoards of morons are not desirable
They're very desirable to the government they vote for.
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Obumble want's them. the idiots, that is, they make nice Democrats.
Pre-qualified so to speak.
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AFAICT that statement would be valid for almost all militaries, now and throughout the past. So the question is how hobbled are they relative to their enemies.
"Officers and experts say that because the defense budget has stayed flat at $14 billion for the past three years, with key acquisition programs stuck in the Defense Ministry's bureaucracy, the military has a critical shortage of ammunition and gaping holes in its air defense systems.
Many blame Defense Minister A.K. Antony, whose tenure began in 2006, for the problems.
In the past seven years, $9 billion worth of tenders for various defense projects have been canceled midway during procurement; half a dozen overseas defense companies have been blacklisted on charges of alleged corruption; and more than 50 complaints against various defense deals have been sent to the country's anti-fraud agency , a MoD source said.
All of these steps, which were aimed at promoting transparency and weeding out corruption, led to shortages of weaponry and equipment, and prices of some systems have gone up by 100 percent after the cancellation of the tenders.
The canceled tenders include a $720 million VVIP helicopter deal with AgustaWestland, due to charges of corruption. A midair refueler tender worth more than $250 million was issued in 2007, canceled in 2009 and restarted in 2010.
A tender for the purchase of 197 light utility helicopters, needed urgently by the Indian Army and Air Force, was canceled in 2008 and issued again in 2009. However, the fate of the program is still not known as the commercial bids have yet to be opened.
"Everything went wrong," said Shyam Kimar Singh, a retired Indian Navy captain, referring to Antony's tenure. "Hardly any capital procurement cases went through except a few offshore patrol vessels for the Coast Guard. No case has seen the light of day in the 'Buy and Make Indian' category. The mine countermeasures vessels project [is an example] of poor decision-making.""
[DAWN] Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... on Wednesday gave an address on the occasion of Youm-e-Takbeer and said that Pakistain is fully capable of defending itself against any possible aggressive designs, DawnNews reported.
The premier congratulated the nation on the event and said that the country's nuclear assets were in safe hands, adding that it was for peaceful purposes.
On the subject of his recent visit to India, the prime minister said that the visit was a success and we want cordial relations with our neighbours.
Nawaz also said that a Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... mass transit plan would be initiated soon and it would be a priority of the government to complete all the projects within its stay.
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Pakistan fully capable of defending itself
Against what?
The list of enemies does NOT contain Bombers, except yours.
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Against what?
If Tibet is any indication, China. A direct route to Iran and its oil passes through Pakistan. On the other side of Pakistan, Afghanistan is mineral rich.
[DAWN] Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... on Wednesday expressed serious concerns
...furrowed brow, moist but not dripping eyes, head tilted just so as the required explanation is awaited from the misbehaving target...
over acts of vandalism at religious sites belonging to different faiths in Sindh and directed concerned authorities to hold inquiry into the matter.
Speaking to Parliamentarians from Sindh at the Prime Minister House, he said that the federal government would undertake rehabilitation of religious sites that were damaged.
With what money? Did the Saudis dump a little extra into the kitty as they prepare to take possession of the nukes they paid for years ago?
The notice was taken after dozens of protesters from the Sikh community pushed past the front gate and entered the grounds of the Parliament building in Islamabad last week, protesting attacks on their houses of worship.
Earlier this week, the Pakistain Sikh Council had warned the government that the community will launch a countrywide protest movement if all the culprits who had desecrated their holy book, Guru Granth Sahib, are not tossed in the clink Please don't kill me! by May 31.
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[DAWN] THATTA: Out of 3,226 girls and boys primary schools, more than 850 are closed in nine talukas of Thatta and Sujawal districts and those operational are also not up to the mark, Dawn learnt here on Tuesday.
These primary educational institutions identified as 'closed schools' are located in 55 union councils of talukas Thatta, Mirpursakhro, Mirpur Bathoro, Ghorabari, Kharochann, Shah Bunder, Keti Bunder, Jati and Sujawal.
According to facts compiled from the education department documents, it is due to negligence of the quarters concerned that academic career of some 180,948 children is at a stake and due to closure of these schools more than 50,000 students have been deprived of primary education.
An official of the district education department on condition of anonymity said education standard in the remaining operating schools was not up to the mark.
He said, despite hectic steps taken during a campaign jointly launched by the district judiciary and education department in recent months, nothing could be achieved positively.
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[An Nahar] Syria as thousands of foreigners fight alongside local bad boys, the U.N. Security Council heard Wednesday.
A report from the U.N.'s al-Qaeda sanctions committee raised specific fears of large numbers of al-Qaeda affiliated imported muscle teaming up with Syria's branch of al-Qaeda, Al-Nusra Front.
"Ties are established that the monitoring team predicts could lead to new pan-Arab and pan-European networks of krazed killers," said the head of the committee, Gary Quinlan.
"Furthermore, the return of these battle hardened imported muscle to their countries of origin, or to third countries, with new ideas and skills is a cause for concern," said Quinlan.
He told the Security Council that al-Qaeda is getting younger, with men in their 30s and 40s taking up leadership positions, increasingly shaped by contemporary events rather than the 1990s.
For example, a new generation in Nigeria's Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... are more disposed towards violence and less tolerant of local religious leaders, said Quinlan, also Australia's ambassador to the U.N.
Mid-level commanders in al-Qaeda affiliates in Africa and Asia bring "technological knowledge and a focus on innovative attack planning," he said.
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[The Peninsula] The Paleostinian interim unity government will be sworn in tomorrow before President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... , a Paleostinian official said yesterday.
"Abbas will announce the new government himself and then it will be sworn in on Thursday," the official said, reported Xinhua news agency.
The current Prime Minister Rami Al Hamdallah will lead the future government and he will also be given the disputable portfolio of interior minister, the official said. He added that the current foreign and finance ministers will be present in the upcoming consensus government.
Earlier, Fatah and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, leaders held a meeting in Gazoo to put the final touches on the new cabinet lineup. A similar meeting was held in Gazoo on Monday.
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he will also be given the disputable portfolio of interior minister
I don't know if that is a diplomatic term or just funny.
Anyone got an over/under on how long unity will prevail in the interim unity govt?
[AlAhram] The Lebanese patriarch of the Maronite church celebrated mass with exiled former members of an Israeli-backed Christian militia on Wednesday as part of his controversial trip to the Jewish state.
Hundreds of Lebanese Maronites came to Saint Peter's church in the village of Capernaum on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, where Christ is said to have delivered many of his most famous teachings.
But those who attended on Wednesday, a fragment of the thousands who fled across the border with Israeli forces in 2000 when Israel ended its 22-year occupation of Leb, said Beshara Rai's historic visit would do little to change their circumstances.
Trained, financed and armed by Israel, the Christian South Leb Army (SLA) battled Paleostinians and Shiite Hezbollah fighters during the occupation of southern Leb.
Many SLA veterans feel they have been abandoned by Israeli authorities in their adopted home, often working in low-paying factory, restaurant or cleaning jobs, but unable to return home for fear of retribution from Hezbollah and others who considered them traitors.
"The patriarch will not grant us anything," Boulous Nahra, originally from the town of Qlaiaa, told AFP, adding he would consider going home if the circumstances allowed.
"We never wanted to leave our country and the patriarch knows that," said Henry Al-Ghafri.
"Israel is not our country, I want to return to Leb (but) a lot of people in Leb... have disowned us now," he added.
But Victor Nader, former commander of an SLA special forces unit, said he was content with his new life.
"We are very happy here and my son is serving in the Israeli army," he said.
Rai came to Israel earlier in the week to join a brief visit by Pope Francis.
The Lebanese holy man was condemned by media close to Hezbollah, which said travelling to arch-enemy Israel would be a "sin".
Leb remains technically at war with Israel and bans its citizens from entering the Jewish state.
But Maronite clergy are permitted to travel to Israel to minister to the estimated 10,000 faithful there.
Earlier on Wednesday Rai visited the derelict Israeli Christian village of Kufr Bir'im, near the Lebanese border, whose inhabitants were evicted by the Israeli army in 1948, six months after Israel was established, and never allowed to return.
The same happened in the nearby village of Iqrit, and Rai vowed to help the Christians of both places, who now live in nearby towns and cities, to reclaim their homes.
"We will work through the Vatican and lobby the pope until the world hears your case," he said.
[Ynet] Knesset hold special Jerusalem Day session; Opposition chairman says government policy had turned Jerusalem into a 'diplomatic and political powdered keg.'
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that "47 years ago Jerusalem was reunited and it will never be divided again," he made the comments in a special Knesset session marking Jerusalem Day on Wednesday.
Following the Six Day War in 1967, Israeli forces captured East Jerusalem and led to what is called the reunification of Jerusalem, which expanded Israeli illusory sovereignty over Jerusalem's Old City and the holy sites it gives home to, including the Western Wall and the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Netanyahu, who spent significant parts of his childhood in the city, recalled childhood memory from the then divided Jerusalem, saying
"We remember it fondly, but it was a capital under fire and siege, and without an exit, with narrow horizons. But one day that all changed. In 1967 the walls fell and we joined the stream of people and poured in the Western Wall."
Netanyahu further praised the social diversity of the capital and stressed that it is the "mother of all towns in Israel, now and forever."
"The Paleostinian, Arab and international position is that East Jerusalem is the capital of Paleostine and that there will be no accord without the recognition of that fact," PA front man Nabil Abu Rudeineh said.
Political powder keg However, some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go... others were not so nostalgic. Opposition Chairman Isaac Herzog (Labor) criticized the government's policy regarding Jerusalem, and said it turned "from a city that was supposed to be a symbol of multiculturalism and inter-faith dialoged to a political and diplomatic powdered keg. "
The government's Jerusalem police has "created a situation in which the world compares construction in Jerusalem with that any settlement outpost." According to him, "the capital is in a sensitive state and which could lead to the city's division."
Netanyahu made similar comments on Tuesday evening at the Mercaz Harav yeshiva seminary, which was scene to a 2008 terror attack which saw eight people murdered and 18 injured.
"47 years ago Jerusalem was reunified, that was the way it used to be and that is the way to will always be," Netanyahu said to a wave of applause from seminary students.
The Paleostinians want a state in the West Bank and Gazoo Strip, with East Jerusalem as its capital, and thus the issue of dividing Jerusalem lies at the heart of the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict. Though Netanyahu has claimed he supports a two state solution, he has been adamant in his objection to dividing the capital, including the predominantly Arab East Jerusalem.
"The Paleostinian, Arab and international position is that East Jerusalem is the capital of Paleostine and that there will be no accord without the recognition of that fact," PA front man Nabil Abu Rudeineh said.
"Continuing this policy, that contradicts the decisons of the international community, has dangerous consequences and it does not aide in creating opportunities to achieve peace. These repeated declarations put more obstacles to the American and international efforts to revive the grinding of the peace processor," he added.
Elaborating on this position and its connection to his family and Israel, Netanyahu said that "Jerusalem is Yad Vashem (Holocaust Museum), Herzl's grave (on Mount Herzl) and the Mount of Olives, where both my grandmother and grandfather are buried as well as (former prime minister) Menahem Begin and our fathers.
"Jerusalem is also Mount Zion and Mount Moria (Temple Mount), and Jerusalem is the Western Wall, Israel eternal. "
Netanyahu vowed to keep Jerusalem united, saying "Jerusalem is our heart, and we preserve our heart, the heart of the nation, and we will never divide our heart. Never!"
[Jpost] Turki bin Faisal Al Saud calls Yadlin's invite an appeal to emotion that distracts from issue of reaching peace based on 2002 Arab Peace Initiative.
That's the one the New York Times' Thomas Friedman claims he spontaneously suggested at a royal dinner party, so clever that the prince immediately adopted it as his own.
Israel has not accepted the Saudi peace initiative because the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... has turned it into a take-it-or-leave-it deal, Israel's former military intelligence chief said.
Amos Yadlin, who headed the Israel Defense Forces' Military Intelligence Directorate for four years until 2010, made the statement during a public talk in Brussels with Turki bin Faisal Al Saud, director of the General Intelligence of Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... from 1979 to 2001 and the youngest son of the late King Faisal of Saudi Arabia.
The Saudi royal declined Yadlin's invitation to Jerusalem and called it an appeal to emotion that distracted from the issue of reaching peace based on the Saudi initiative, which is also called the Arab Peace Initiative.
"The real problem is that the Saudi initiative became the vaporous Arab League dictate in a summit in Beirut in 2002," Yadlin said. "The Saudis modified it into a take it or leave it offer with parameters we can't accept: Mostly in the issue of returning the Golan to Syrians," Yadlin said, adding that the settling of the Paleostinian refugee problem was also a stumbling block.
Faisal Al Saud disputed Yadlin's assertion and retorted that Israel should accept the proposal in principle, "and then negotiate on the details."
Thus speaks the man who thinks himself a wolf to the man he thinks a helpless lamb. He can't help it, of course -- he was very carefully taught.
The meeting was organized by the German Marshall Fund as follow-up to a public exchange in Munich four months ago between Faisal Al Saud and Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, who is also Israel's chief negotiator with the Paleostinians.
The Saudi asked Livni why Israel did not follow up on the initiative, which Saudi Arabia presented in 2002 and which proposes normalization of ties between Israel and Arab League members in exchange for an Israeli withdrawal from all areas Israel captured in 1967 and a "just solution" to the Paleostinian refugee issue that would be "agreed upon" by the parties. According to Washington Post Associate Editor David Ignatius, who moderated the Munich talks, Yadlin agreed to provide a reply in Brussels.
"There is nothing under the table, no hidden agreement or underhanded move or secret clauses to it, the Arabs will recognize Israel diplomatically, normalize relations and [end] hostilities in return for Israel withdrawing from all lands occupied in '67," he said.
"Come, my friend, come. All you needed do was sit still with your neck bared for the sword. It isn't hard -- millions have done the same over the centuries without significant protest."
Rooters via gCaptain. O may be trying to ease sanctions, but all is not smiles in Mudville Iran.
Global shipping lines are increasingly shying away from handling cargoes to Iran as restrictions on banking and insurance continue unabated, despite an interim agreement between Tehran and the West that called for limited sanctions relief.
Iran in the past depended on foreign ships for much of its imports, but it is now relying more on land routes and its own commercial fleet. Earlier this month, trade sources said hundreds of thousands of tonnes of grain and sugar were stuck in transit.
Iran was never barred from buying food or other humanitarian goods under sanctions imposed by the European Union and the United States because of its disputed nuclear programme, but the restrictions have hit approved deals as well.
“The principle sanction against non-U.S. companies is that they can be denied access to U.S. banking, and therefore they can’t trade in U.S. dollars,” said Doug Maag of law firm Clyde & Co. “That is a very real and adverse result.” Hence the move among a number of countries to do currency swap agreements, and leave US Banks out of the transactions.
Global shipping fees are transacted in U.S. dollars, which means dealing with Iran could make companies vulnerable to being frozen out of the U.S. financial system.
Iran and Western governments reached an interim agreement in November last year over Tehran’s nuclear work in exchange for limited sanctions relief for six months – from January to July this year – under the Joint Plan of Action (JPOA).
Correspondence since January seen by Reuters shows that U.S. group United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), whose board includes former heads of the CIA and British intelligence, continues to monitor European shipping companies on any deals with Iran.
“The risks of doing business with Iran are still far too great to return. It is too soon,” said Mark Wallace of UANI, which has targeted companies trading in Iran.
“People are nervous,” said Wallace, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. O isn't but Israel is.
Greece-based Efploia Shipping wrote in a recent letter to UANI, “Owners do not take such matters lightly … and have implemented several exhaustive clauses in order to ensure that such trade is legitimate.”
The firm did not respond to requests for comment.
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The 2011 blacklisting of Iranian port operator Tidewater Middle East Co, which operates seven terminals including the biggest container port Bandar Abbas and major grain terminal Bandar Imam Khomeini, has also discouraged foreign shipping firms.
Maersk Line, the worldÂ’s biggest container company, pulled out entirely from Iran in 2012, joining an exodus that has included major groups MSC and CMA CGM and smaller firms.
Iranian government officials also pointed to a harder trading environment.
“Shipping volumes have dropped as there are various problems like difficulties at customs; international insurance companies are hesitant to cover ships en route to Iran; as well as letters of credit problems,” one Iranian official said. Ask the Russians about Iranian payments to them for Bushehr.
“Iran hopes that lifting sanctions will revive the business.”
An Iranian trade source, who previously worked as a government official, said the country was relying more on its domestic shipping fleet or using land routes.
“Iranians prefer to use foreign shipping companies less and less after all the fuss over violating sanctions. They can be easily tracked,” the trade source said.
“Especially since the nuclear talks have started, the government is very careful not to be caught. They use more trucks; it takes longer but that is safer.” Keep on Truckin'
Sanctions have also made global ship insurers wary of covering cargoes and vessels involved in any trade with Iran, and the recent agreement, which lasts only until July 20, has not made any difference.
“Until something more long-term is agreed, insurers have tended not to change their internal processes,” Chris Hill of Clyde & Co. said.
“If you start sending out a message to your staff that for six months they can do certain business with Iran, it can create mixed messages, and insurers tend to be cautious about this.”
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Actually, it's 'letters of credit'. That involves banks.
[An Nahar] Syria's opposition National Coalition welcomed a pledge from U.S. President Barack Obama I am not a dictator!... on Wednesday to ramp up support for rebels fighting the Damascus regime of Bashir al-Assad.
"This additional support highlights the partnership between the United States and the Syrian people in ending the humanitarian disaster and putting Syria on the path to genuine democratic transition," the bloc's U.S. representative, Najib Ghadbian, said in a statement.
The National Coalition, which described itself as the best alternative to the Assad regime, added in the statement that it "appreciates American support to the Syrian people in their struggle".
In a keynote speech to the West Point military academy on Wednesday, Obama vowed to increase U.S. support for the rebels fighting Assad's regime and to help them confront their bully boy rivals.
"I will work with Congress to ramp up support for those in the Syrian opposition who offer the best alternative to snuffies and a brutal dictator," said Obama.
The announcement comes two weeks after the U.S. president met with the head of the National Coalition, Ahmad Jarba.
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"If you like your rebellion, you can keep your rebellion."
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Yes indeedie do, yep, Fast and Furious worked so well at fueling the drug wars in Central America that Champ thinks arming Al Qaeda and its demon spawn would do much for stability in the Middle East...
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FOOLS, he's never followed his word before, You expect him to follow it now?
I've got a bridge o sll you.
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My keyboard is skipping letters.
Gotta get a new one.
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"Syria Opposition Welcomes Obama Plan to Ramp Up Support"
Uh-oh - youse guyz are dead now . . . .
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[An Nahar] President Barack Obama They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them... mounted a defiant defense of his global leadership Wednesday, rebuking critics who see him as weak but warning that not every global threat justifies a U.S. military response.
In a major speech at the West Point military academy, Obama denied U.S. power had ebbed under his watch, after he withdrew troops from Iraq and as he does the same in Afghanistan.
He also pledged to ramp up support for Syrian rebels
"I would betray my duty to you, and to the country we love, if I sent you into harm's way simply because I saw a problem somewhere in the world that needed fixing, or because I was worried about critics who think military intervention is the only way for America to avoid looking weak," he told the graduates.
Obama has been under increasing pressure to do more to support Syrian rebels battling Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... and offer some relief to civilians reeling under strikes including barrel bombings carried out by the regime.
"As frustrating as it is, there are no easy answers -- no military solution that can eliminate the terrible suffering anytime soon," Obama said.
"As president, I made a decision that we should not put American troops into the middle of this increasingly sectarian civil war, and I believe that is the right decision.
"But that does not mean we shouldn't help the Syrian people stand up against a dictator who bombs and starves his people."
Obama said that he would work with politicians to ramp up support for the opposition, but did not give details, amid reports the U.S. military will begin openly training rebel forces. The CIA is believed to be carrying out a covert program to train and arm some rebels.
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I suppose if we are all lucky, Syria will turn out to be another Libya - but nothing worse that that. Maybe like Somalia, but without Blackhawk Down.
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"As frustrating as it is, there are no easy answers -- no military solution that can eliminate the terrible suffering anytime soon," Obama said.
Er huh.... but, but, but the rebels ARE all about a fok'n military solution. Does this moron know what he is actually saying or is this delayed 'chume gang' obsessive-compulsive rhetoric ?
[An Nahar] Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... 's is preparing for an inevitable re-election next week as the civil war shifts in the army's favor, with rebels losing ground and world powers paralyzed by divisions.
A brutal three-year conflict that wrought destruction across the country and displaced millions, has left large swathes of territory in rebel hands. And the June 3 vote, in which Assad is seeking a third seven-year term, will only take place in regime-controlled areas.
The main opposition has already dismissed Syria's first multi-candidate election as a "farce" after the regime ensured no upsets by barring exiles from standing and with candidates needing the endorsement of 35 MPs in the state-controlled parliament.
The United States has called the vote a "parody of democracy."
Candidates Maher al-Hajjar, an independent former communist MP, and Hassan al-Nouri, a businessman belonging to the tolerated opposition, are seen as token rivals giving the vote a veneer of credibility.
No candidate from the rebel ranks is running, in what is effectively the first presidential election in more than 50 years. Until now, like his father and predecessor Hafez, who ruled with an iron first from 1970 to 2000, Bashar secured his two previous mandates through a referendum.
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[Ynet] US government agencies were examining social media postings purporting to show how an American who was fighting with an al-Qaeda affiliate went kaboom! recently in a suicide kaboom in northern Syria, US officials said.
The officials, who declined to be identified, said US agencies assessed that the postings were likely authentic. One said some Sherlocks believed they knew the "US person's" true identity, but declined to give further details.
According to internet postings, the jacket wallah, who called himself "Abu Hurayra al-Amriki" carried out one of four suicide kabooms on May 25 in Syria's Idlib province on behalf of Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda's affiliate fighting to oust the government of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Trampler of Homs....
[Ynet] Clashes erupt with Lebanese army as Syrians push to vote; 'With our souls, with our blood, we will sacrifice for you, Bashar'.
Lebanese troops moved to subdue a crowd of frenzied Syrians who tried to storm their embassy in Beirut to vote for Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... , using batons and sticks to push back people on Wednesday as expat balloting started ahead of Syria's June 3 presidential election.
The chaotic scenes - with Lebanese troops beating up the Syrians who scuffled back - unfolded about 50 meters (yards) from the embassy building in the Yarze district southeast of Beirut.
Thousands of Assad supporters had flocked to the hilltop embassy and snarled traffic outside for hours as of early Wednesday.
"With our souls, with our blood, we will sacrifice for you, Bashar," chanted many in the crowd.
The June 3 vote is highly contentious, coming amid the civil war, and is widely expected to the Syrian president a third seven-year term in office. The Syrian opposition and its Western allies have denounced the election as a sham designed to lend Assad a veneer of electoral legitimacy.
The government in Damascus, meanwhile, has touted the vote as the political solution to the three-year-long conflict that began as an uprising against the Assad family's more than 40-year rule.
In Leb, a country long dominated by its Syrian neighbor, the election turned into a massive show of support for Assad.
The festivities at the embassy broke out when the Syrian voters started pushing against the Lebanese soldiers in an effort to get into the compound. Soldiers beat the voters with batons and sticks in an effort to control them. Overwhelmed by the crowds and the heat, several people fainted.
"We speak with them politely and say 'please' in Arabic and English, but they still push forward and cause chaos. What do you expect us to do?" said one Lebanese soldier.
Nearby, a Syrian woman shouted at a Lebanese soldier, saying: "We are human beings like you. Why do you treat us this way?"
Since morning hours, thousands of people arrived, some on the back of pickup trucks, others in cars and buses plastered with the Syrian white-red-and-black flag and pictures of Assad. Many abandoned their cars to walk the last few kilometers (miles) to the embassy because traffic was at a standstill.
"I came to vote for President Bashir al-Assad because we love him and he is a good man," said Abraham Dekermenjian, a Syrian of Armenian descent who fled from his war-devastated city of Aleppo.
Dekermenjian, formerly a plastic factory worker, spoke as he took a break from walking, sitting on the pavement, a cigarette in one hand and a bottle of water in the other.
Wahid Ibrahim al-Beik, a 30-year-old minibus driver in Leb, had a Syrian flag tied around his neck and a headband around his forehead that read: "Syria is protected by God."
"I am going to vote for his excellency President Bashir al-Assad because there is no one like him and we don't accept anyone other than him," he said.
There are about 1.1 million Syrians who live in Leb as refugees. Many among the refugees and opposition supporters abroad are expected to boycott the election, which has two other candidates in the race but they are seen as mostly symbolic contenders and little known figures.
The expatriate voting was to take place in Syrian embassies and consulates abroad where the staff has not defected to the opposition. Some European countries, including La Belle France and Germany, have said they will not allow Syrian expatriate voting to be held in their capitals.
[Ynet] In reference to Israel, Islamic republic tells world powers to ignore third party influence.
Iran urged Western powers Tuesday to resist any pressure from third parties not directly involved in negotiations over its nuclear activities, in a clear reference to Israeli-led influence.
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, quoted by the official IRNA news agency after meetings with EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, also called for "seriousness and realism," in the next round of nuclear talks in Vienna next month.
After a second day of discussions with Ashton in Istanbul, Zarif said the P5+1 powers (Britannia, China, La Belle France, Russia, the United States and Germany) should avoid "illusions which might be exerted on them by some pressure groups and people outside the negotiations."
Iran has consistently denied it is seeking nuclear weapons but wants an independent atomic energy program. Israel and politicians in the US Congress have repeatedly warned against lowering the pressure on Iran.
Zarif also said reaching an agreement was "completely possible" and that the Islamic republic would participate in the talks with "seriousness, accuracy and without any rush."
He condemned as "brutal obstacles" the sanctions imposed on Iran over its nuclear activities, pledging that their eventual removal was "the basis of our work" in seeking a comprehensive deal that would "preserve the rights and dignity of the nation."
The next round of talks on resolving Western concerns will take place in Vienna on June 16-20, the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... announced earlier Tuesday.
Talks earlier this month made no "tangible progress," with a July 20 deadline for a conclusive agreement looming on the horizon and major issues still outstanding.
These reportedly include the scope of Iran's enrichment of uranium, which if further purified could be used to trigger a nuclear kaboom, and its unfinished Arak research reactor, whose by-product waste could provide an alternative route to an atomic bomb.
The differences during the last round in Vienna prevented a start being made on an early draft agreement.
Negotiators aim to nail down an exceedingly complex and lasting deal limiting Iran's nuclear activities in exchange for a lifting of sanctions.
Failure could have calamitous consequences, potentially sparking conflict -- neither Israel nor the United States rules out military action -- and creating a nuclear arms race in the Middle East.
Negotiators could theoretically extend the July 20 deadline to win more time, but presidents Barack Obama My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it... and Hassan Rouhani could struggle to keep skeptical and impatient US and Iranian hardliners at bay.
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Said Iranian negotiators "C'mon, give it up... you know you want to."
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[An Nahar] President Barack Obama I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody... mounted a defiant defense of his global leadership Wednesday, rebuking critics who see him as weak but warning that not every global threat justifies a U.S. military response.
In a major speech at the West Point military academy, Obama denied U.S. power had ebbed under his watch, after he withdrew troops from Iraq and as he does the same in Afghanistan.
He also pledged to ramp up support for Syrian rebels, vowed to stand up to Russia over Ukraine and promised to make drone strikes against terror suspects more transparent.
He vowed to hold China accountable to international "rules of the road" in the South China Sea and elsewhere.
"To say that we have an interest in pursuing peace and freedom beyond our borders is not to say that every problem has a military solution," Obama said.
"Since World War II, some of our most costly mistakes came not from our restraint, but from our willingness to rush into military adventures -- without thinking through the consequences," Obama said, in an apparent reference to the Iraq war, which he has branded a disaster.
The president's speech came with his foreign policy, which was once seen as a political asset, under assault from critics who believe he is being outmaneuvered by strongmen like Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... and China's President Xi Jinping.
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Obama Warns U.S. Must Not Rush to War
Coming from Obama, that's funny.
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Arsonist in a field of straw men
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What about "kinetic military actions", Champ?
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Just because some people fly commercial aircraft full of civies into the Twin Towers to get our attention doesn't mean we should respond, right sir? /sarc off
BTW, how's that situation in Libya you meddled in doing to discourage the spread of Islamic terrorism. We could ask come Nigerian school girls, if we could find them.
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...well, at least they were able to fill the seats besides the usual lapdog media. Be embarrassing to issue a 'major' speech and only have the sycophant squad in attendance.
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the only reason the seats were full is that it was graduation at West Point, no attend no diploma, no diploma no commission.
Of course I think the real reason can be found in Sun Tzu's "Art of War" the real thinkers in the military are studying Obama as one would study the Kremlin during Stalin, trying to gather intelligence on a potential enemy combatant.
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Ole Vlad has studied one of the best:
Young Vlad (?) is the one with the view finder 35MM, KGB tourist.
Didn't that guy samba a week away while tomahawking Libya until some reporter ask an uncomfortable question during his evening vacay debriefing?
"First, let me say thank you for putting your lives on hold and on the line for me. When I send you or your comrades into somewhere, Africa, rest assured that when you find trouble, if we decide to support you, and if you make it home alive, the VA will make sure to finish you job. And let me be clear, we know when and how many of my books you have purchased."
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Isn't this the guy who tried to ramrod a war with Assad based on some really flimsy evidence; a war so unwanted the UK voted it down, France threatened to bypass their laws, and wasn't even allowed debate in Congress? All to protect his image from his own words?
The guy who when campaigning for his first term, stated he would use the US Military to interdict whatever he would consider a humanitarian crises?
The guy who thought the standoff at Bundy Ranch was such a threat to the US he considered US military action?
He doesn't have a policy people can get behind. He is not able to argue his policy well enough for the people to get behind. So he hides behind his phone, using his pen to make others force his policy upon people not needing or wanting.
And he gets up in front of West Point grads, and talks about how tough he is? Guy who throws a split finger croquetball?
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I don't know we rushed into Afghanistan and removed the Taliban pretty damned quick. I think the important thing is not the rush but to know what you want to do and how you want to do it.
US does war very well. It's the peacekeepng that is problematic and that's mostly because it takes longer than the nation ahs patience.
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He doesn't have a policy people can get behind
Yes he does, in fact he has many, so many he stumbles Incoherently from one to another each speech, Ummm, Teleprompter reading.
It's a trademark.
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I think there are times where is absolutely necessary to move quickly, such as time sensitive objectives or not wanting to telegraph a move. The War Powers Resolution recognizes yes, there are times the military must move more swiftly than Congress, but the unilateral Executive action must be affirmed at some point.
Guess two violators of the War Powers Resolution.
President Clinton (Kosovo) and President Obama (Libya), though each of them weasel worded their way around the yea/nay vote.
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Somewhat explains his policy in protecting our southwestern border with Mexico that has been violated repeatedly and daily for years; no rush to stop that.
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..it's professional courtesy. The purer Spanish blood ruling class is able to keep its hands on the reigns of power by another ruling caste allowing the first to dump millions of their mestizos y indios on the the US for future ballot box stuffing. Just like the pros in Detroit, et al, sold out the middle class for the dependency voters. It's about power, baby.
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LAHORE: Acknowledging that Pakistan is well-equipped to defend itself militarily, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday said the country should instead concentrate on economic progress.
[DAWN] THATTA: Out of 3,226 girls and boys primary schools, more than 850 are closed in nine talukas of Thatta and Sujawal districts and those operational are also not up to the mark, Dawn learnt here on Tuesday.
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