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POPSFP Magazine: how the United States and NATO let war criminal Ratko Mladic evade justice for 16 years Srebrenica Children Massacre : refers to the killing of as many as 62 children among the victims when the elementary school in Srebrenica, eastern Bosnia, was shelled by the Army of Republika Srpska in April 1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srebrenica_Children_Massacre The Srebrenica massacre , also known as the Srebrenica genocide, refers to the July 1995 killing of more than 8,000 Muslim Bosniak men and boys, in and around the town of Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina, by units of the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) under the command of General Ratko Mladić during the Bosnian War, in the largest mass murder committed in Europe since World War II. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srebrenica_genocide
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POPSU.S. diplomat Holbrooke dies after tearing aorta Holbrooke underwent more than 20 hours of surgery to repair the tear and bleeding in his aorta. A torn aorta is a condition in which a rip develops in the inner wall of the body's largest artery, allowing blood to enter the vessel wall and weaken it.
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POPSMilitants Set Fire to Three Dozen NATO Tankers in Pakistan
"Some of them have been completely destroyed and others partially. But there is no loss of human life," Shikarpur police chief Abdul Hameed Khoso told Reuters. In a separate incident, two unidentified men fired on a NATO tanker traveling through a town in Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province toward Afghanistan. Two people burned to death after the vehicle caught fire, security officials said. Police arrested 10 people after the earlier attack, including five netted from a raid on an Islamic seminary, or madrasa. The tankers were parked at a filling station on their way to Afghanistan from Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi. Thursday, three Pakistani soldiers were killed and three wounded in two cross-border incursions by NATO forces chasing militants in Pakistan's northwestern Kurram region. "I want to assure the entire nation from this house that we will consider other options if there is interference in the sovereignty of our country,"
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POPSWorld should do more to help Pakistan, says US Does Pakistan suffer from the bad PR, or their perceived anti-US stand? The outpouring of help by Americans in particular after the Haiti and other similar but huge disaster is not seen in this situation. These floods in Asia in general (not just in Pakistan) have already been declared as worse than Tsunami, so where's the media and where are those text SMS for donations? I find that interesting.
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POPSMichael Hastings Still Attacked By Military Correspondents, For Not Following 'Formula' And yet, the consensus among military professionals is that those "off-hand comments" about Joe Biden (and, lest we forget, Richard Holbrooke and Karl Eikenberry), were tantamount to a firing offense, because it belied a festering disrespect for the chain of command. But more to the point, when Wood says things like, "Surely, Hastings overheard more significant and compelling stuff from his month with the general," my response is, "Indeed, yes! And maybe you should go and read the story he wrote!" Because what seems to be getting lost is that Hastings wrote a story that broadly reported out McChrystal's inability to get his charges to buy into the counterinsurgency mission, even as he was ridiculing the failings of others. Context: still matters!
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POPSDon't Blame McChrystal, Blame Obama including through media leaks of their own. Rolling Stone portrays McChrystal as being sharply at odds with Vice President Biden, State Department Afghanistan envoy Richard Holbrooke and U.S. ambassador Karl Eikenberry. Most of its incendiary quotes come not from the general, but his aides -- one of whom resigned Tuesday. McChrystal himself apologized for the article; he was reported to be returning to Washington for a White House meeting on Afghanistan Wednesday. McChrystal’s enemies were quick to portray him as out of line and likely to be scolded, if not fired, by Obama. My colleague Jonathan Capehart said McChrystal should be ready to resign. But the tensions McChrystal disclosed were not news to anyone who has been following the Afghanistan mission in recent months; I first wrote about them more than a month ago. more... http://bit.ly/bfZUn6
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POPSFurious Pres. Obama summons Gen. McCrystal to explain comments I'm sorry that he apologized since it won't do any good anyway. He'll be replaced if not immediately, then after the November elections. It doesn't take a 60 watt bulb to know that the Administration doesn't have a clue or give a fig about our troops and goals in Afghanistan or the entire region. McCrystal was chosen by the President to be a figurehead; not to actually use the full weight of American might against the Taleban. McCrystal can't be so stupid as to not realize that his comments in a magazine would go un-noticed or that he wouldn't be held accountable. But was stupid not to resign; the apology is worthless and no one believes it. Resigning would have helped him retain some credibility. We know who's a-- is about to be kicked.
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POPSThe sleazy advocacy of a leading "liberal hawk" What Galbraith kept completely concealed all these years was that a company he formed in 2004 came to acquire a large stake in a Kurdish oil field whereby, as the NYT put it, he "stands to earn perhaps a hundred million or more dollars." In other words, he had a direct -- and vast -- financial stake in the very policies which he was publicly advocating in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and countless other American media outlets, where he was presented as an independent expert on the region. As Cobban wrote: Galbraith has never expressed any such regrets, and last November, he was openly scornful of Bush's late-term agreement to withdraw from Iraq completely. The revelation that for many years Galbraith had a quite undisclosed financial interest in the political breakup of Iraq may now further reduce the clout, and the ranks, of the remaining liberal hawks.
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POPSObama to Meet High-Powered Aides for Afghan Review were the top ranking civilian officials expected for a bracing session on a war some supporters fear could swamp Obama's presidency. War commander General Stanley McChrystal, who warned in a leaked report that the conflict could be lost within a year without more troops, was also due to to take part, either in person or by video link-up, the White House said. Other top military brass included were General David Petraeus who heads US central command, Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Director of National Intelligence Admiral Dennis Blair. CIA chief Leon Panetta was also due to take part, along with Richard Holbrooke, the US envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, as well as the US ambassadors to Islamabad and Kabul. Obama warned after meeting NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Tuesday that the United States could not fight the battle in Afghanistan alone, in remarks apparently aimed at European partners.
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POPSObama's Move: Iran and Afghanistan United States between April and September. In his speech to the Islamic world from Cairo, he planned to show a desire not only to find common ground, but also to acknowledge shortcomings in U.S. policy in the region. With the appointment of special envoys George Mitchell (for Israel and the Palestinian territories) and Richard Holbrooke (for Pakistan and Afghanistan), Obama sought to build on his opening to the Islamic world with intense diplomatic activity designed to reshape regional relationships. It can be argued that the Islamic masses responded positively to Obama’s opening " it has been asserted to be so and we will accept this " but the diplomatic mission did not solve the core problem. Mitchell could not get the Israelis to move on the settlement issue, and while Holbrooke appears to have made some headway on increasing Pakistan’s aggressiveness toward the Taliban, no fundamental shift has occurred in the Afghan war.
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POPSObama: Trilateral Commission Endgame "Is this a mere coincidence or is it a continuation of dominance over the Executive Branch since 1976? (For important background, read The Trilateral Commission: Usurping Sovereignty.) * Secretary of Treasury, Tim Geithner * Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice * National Security Advisor, Gen. James L. Jones * Deputy National Security Advisor, Thomas Donilon * Chairman, Economic Recovery Committee, Paul Volker * Director of National Intelligence, Admiral Dennis C. Blair * Assistant Secretary of State, Asia & Pacific, Kurt M. Campbell * Deputy Secretary of State, James Steinberg * State Department, Special Envoy, Richard Haass * State Department, Special Envoy, Dennis Ross * State Department, Special Envoy, Richard Holbrooke There are many other incidental links to the Trilateral Commission, for instance, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is married to Commission member William Jefferson Clinton. Geithner's i
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POPSEuropean anti Semite gets Presidential Medal of Freedom Mary was in charge of the infamous Durban I so-called anti racism conference, which turned into an anti Semitic festival. When she was replaced as UNHRC, Richard Holbrooke (today one of Obama's most senior diplomats) commented, "I think Sergio is much better than Mary Robinson. I think she overly politicized the job." But wait. There's more: The trouble starts with Robinson's tenure as president of Ireland. During the last four years of Robinson's tenure, the European Union donated large sums of money to the Palestinian Authority. Ireland even held the presidency of the European Union for the second half of 1996. During this time, Arafat siphoned large amounts of European aid money away to pay for terror. Robinson can plead ignorance, but documents seized during the recent Israeli incursion into the West Bank revealed that the Palestinian Authority spent approximately $9 million of European Union aid money
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POPSMore Czars Than There are in the Russian Section of Hell The Obama Administration is not the first administration to appoint someone with broad powers to oversee a function. You know. A “czar.” So, why stop at 25-30 czars? Why not appoint a bunch more: * Gaffe Czar: Joe Biden. Sure, he’s vice-president, but he’s already doing the job of Gaffe Czar; why not make it official? * News Czar: Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf. You knew him as “Baghdad Bob.” He’d fit right in with this Administration. And it would give Robert Gibbs a break from having to make up explanations for things all by himself. * Anti-semitism Czar: Jeremiah Wright. He’s already promoting anti-semitism as much as anyone is this country. This would give him a larger platform. * Fashion Czar: Michelle Obama. Remember Jackie Kennedy? Michelle Obama is equally qualified. Except for having poor taste in clothes. And men. Previously, we’ve had Drug Czars, Energy Czars, and so on. But, Barack Obama has gone Czar crazy.
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POPSSacked General I guess they need to keep trying something new until we can leave..........yrs down the road
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