Hizbullah’s representative in Iran, Abdallah Safialdeen: Hizbullah Will Not Need a Large-Scale War. It Will Be Able to Walk into Palestine, Once the Americans Leave Iraq .....
Following are excerpts from an address by Abdallah Safialdeen, Hizbullah’s representative in Iran, which aired on Channel 4, Iranian TV, on March 4, 2007.
http://www.memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=1397
Al-Ahram, Eqypts leading newspaper published with goverment approval, showcases some of their favorite political cartoons of the week.....
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/835/cartoon.htm
Mar. 13, 2007 21:49 Updated Mar. 14, 2007 22:16
What's missing from the Saudi initiative
By SHLOMO AVINERI
One key element is missing from the Saudi initiative and from the March 2002 Beirut declaration of the Arab League - negotiations. In the flurry of current activity surrounding the Beirut declaration, this aspect has been almost totally overlooked.
What did the Beirut declaration stipulate? It "called upon Israel to affirm" three points: full and unequivocal withdrawal from all the occupied territories; achieving a "just solution" to the Palestinian refugee problem in accordance with UN General Assembly Resolution 194; and acceptance of an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza with East Jerusalem as its capital.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1173700694809&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
A Manifesto For the Next President
By David IgnatiusWednesday, March 14, 2007
Zbigniew Brzezinski has written a new book that might be a foreign policy manifesto for Barack Obama. Its message is that America can recover from what Brzezinski calls the "catastrophic" mistakes of the Bush administration, but only if the next president makes a clean break from those policies and aligns the country with a world in transformation.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/13/AR2007031301504.html
VLAD'S NEW BAD
PUTIN MAKES MORE ENEMIES
Ralph Peters, The New York Post
March 14, 2007 -- An old joke runs that even paranoids have enemies. But what can we make of the quasi-dictator of a middleweight state who insists on making enemies of those who'd hoped to be his country's friends?
http://www.nypost.com/seven/03142007/postopinion/opedcolumnists/vlads_new_bad_opedcolumnists_ralph_peters.htm
It is interesting to note that we may be entering the first presidential election of the electronic media age where candidates clearly have major television networks working for them. In addition, the candidates themselves simply intend to focus as much of their campaigning as possible directly to the same distribution networks. It is disturbing, but it is happening.
John Edwards pulling out of the Fox interview last week is a perfect example. Another is that no one has seen Obama really anywhere that is not scripted. He is truly Redford in "The Candidate." Most disturbing of all to me, is the night in, night out campaign by MSNBC and it's truly nasty, insecure, smug host Keith Olbermann. You cannot pick any weeknight where he is not opening his show bashing the Bush administration. Each evening he teams up with his supporting cast of mutants and misfits (Richard Wolfee of Newsweek who resembles in face and mannerisms of Kazu from the Flintstones stands out ) and works his hardest to maximize any angle possible in the hope that one of his plights will pick up steam enough to get him out of his perennial slot in third place (out of three). It is pathetic.
(More to come)
I am really not 100% up to date on what British spend on its military, but it appears that a serious majority does not want to continue in the fashion that has kept Britain somewhat of a world power. I don't know if they feel spending might upset other nations they would rather pacify but I hope they understand that as the world changes, it does not only do so for Britain. The United States cannot be Europe's body guard forever. No one is telling them what to do. I simply say if they believe that the United States will front all bills in the future so kids can slam our president over beers in a pub, they are misleading themselves.
PM faces nuclear vote rebellion
BBC News, 03/14/07
Tony Blair may face his biggest Commons rebellion since the start of the Iraq war when MPs vote on plans to renew the UK's Trident nuclear weapons system. MPs will debate the £20bn plan to replace the submarines which carry the Trident missiles.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6448173.stm
Now it gets real hairy. Islamic terrorists are taking the fight directly to Pakistan, positioning it as retaliation for Afghanistan and Musharf will have to deal with a political minefield. Long believed to be the weakest link based on huge anti-American sentiment, Pakistan and its nuclear weapons may literally be a strongman's heartbeat away from fanatical control. Where the army's loyalty lies remain to be seen. It is some serious sh-t and I really hope Musarf and gang stop hedging and squash this uprising fast. It cannot gain momentum or we're all in for trouble that makes a shaky stock market look like a birthday party.
By CARLOTTA GALL
Published: March 14, 2007
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Along the Afghan border, not far from this northwestern city, Islamic militants have used a firm foothold over the past year to train and dispatch suicide bombers against American and NATO forces in Afghanistan.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/14/world/asia/14pakistan.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
