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Analysis of Pakistan and Afghanistan with journalist Ahmed Rashid & Ashraf Ghani, Chancellor of Kabul University
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REMant 04/21/2009 03:04 AM Report
Is having 80% of the Pakistan Army facing India actually warranted, or is it a ruse? I think Ghani is right, most of Afghanistan's problems come from outside, from poppies to Arab radicals. Yes, it is tribal, but since when should that be a cause for concern? It will do us absolutely no good to continue to cold shoulder either the Latins or the Arbabs we don't like, and the White House seeking to prove the president wasn't hobnobbing with Chavez, and 40 delegates walking out when the Iranian president suggested that Western attitudes might have had something to do with the imprisonment of a great portion of Palestinians for the past half century, is all ludicrous.
charlizecourriers 04/20/2009 05:19 PM Report
"Civilian casualties-that's the price of war..." Now that would be Obama's war? Insuring the safety of the oil supplies of the Mideast with a successful Iraq invasion and occupation, so that oil-based traffic in the entire world moved smoothly and confidently-well! That's a tragedy every good liberal in Rose-colored glasses voted against. But in addition to "civilian casualties" there are a few other costs-yes? Mr. Rose is just another war mongerer, dressed as a concerned observer of a new administration. Next we will see Mr. Rose supporting recruitment at liberal ivory towers for a few good marines and other patriots. But will we win at a cost acceptable to Mr. Rose. I think so-since Mr. Rose won't be paying any of the costs anyway. Keep on being indispensable,Charlie! Even if Obama loses.
tartufe 04/20/2009 01:22 PM Report
TOTAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST rendering the whole conversation fatuous. Of course they’ll tout Pakistan as a hot bed of terrorists all singularly potentially focused on the US. Well if they aren’t now they will be by the time we leave.
Charlie Rose fouled his nest (shit in his credibility mess kit actually) when he spoon-fed the M-I oligarchy query whether drone missiles were a good idea. The answer was a weaseled no, but then proceeded to rationalize that if the Pak army wouldn’t kill the bad guys then maybe it was ok for the Americans to do it as long as it was near the border.
With logic like that the M-I boys can lick their chops, as protraction of the Af-Pak conflict will be guaranteed for many years. CS Drone murdering of civilians will assure that. Al Qaeda recruiting personified.
Charlie caters to the elite side of the hoi polloi and the establishment, which has to keep him within constraints. Tonight he soiled himself staying within these bounds, teetering between establishment orthodoxy and meaningful journalism, he abdicated the latter for the former with these guys.
Bill Moyers seldom abdicates. He and David Brancaccio salvaged this Fridays public service programming. Moyers on drug demand. David on shrinking glaciers.
Saddening when CR foils for the M-I orthodoxy by asking what our objectives are in Af-Pak. Asking Afghani’s, setting them up to respond just as they did. Extorting our already plundered treasury. Citigroup et al don’t need any help.
As bin Laden said (paraphrased), we’ll break America by rattling a sword now and then and we’ll keep them in turmoil forever.
We’re run by a ship of fools. And Charlie assisted them this night. Alas.