Global War on Terror III: Dick Cheney's Hague ICC Vacation

[Kepler]

Re: Global War on Terror III: Dick Cheney's Hague ICC Vacation

How could anyone have foreseen this?

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has blocked efforts by U.S. officials to safeguard money entering his country’s economy, and making it difficult for the United States to combat money laundering and terrorist financing, a new report finds.

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The audit found that Karzai has barred U.S. Treasury officials from accessing the Afghan central bank, where they described working conditions as being “hostile,” the audit said.

Responding to the audit, the U.S. Embassy in Kabul said that Karzai “banned” U.S. officials from the bank in May and has no plans to try to return there since “the working conditions there for advisors have become hostile.”

The GWOT turns out to be an ATM for corrupt warlords to draw funds from US taxpayers. Shocking, I know.

[5mn_Major]

Re: Global War on Terror III: Dick Cheney's Hague ICC Vacation

Bad decisions get compounded with interest. Out now.

[Kepler]

Re: Global War on Terror III: Dick Cheney's Hague ICC Vacation

Bad decisions get compounded with interest. Out now.

It's worse than that. It's the sunk cost fallacy ("We can not let our brave lads have died in vain. So send more brave lads.")

[alfablue]

Re: Global War on Terror III: Dick Cheney's Hague ICC Vacation

Should this have it's own thread- http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/22...ted/?hpt=hp_t2 ?

[Handyman]

Re: Global War on Terror III: Dick Cheney's Hague ICC Vacation

Norway? When I think of hotbeds of terrorist activity Oslo does not rank high on the list

[goldy_331]

Re: Global War on Terror III: Dick Cheney's Hague ICC Vacation

Norway? When I think of hotbeds of terrorist activity Oslo does not rank high on the list

It's there now. Confirmed as car bomb. Also reports of a gunamn opening fire at a youth camp near Oslo.

[Priceless]

Re: Global War on Terror III: Dick Cheney's Hague ICC Vacation

Great coverage by the news networks.

Nick Kristof reports that an estimated 20-30 kids were killed at that camp.

[Kepler]

Re: Global War on Terror III: Dick Cheney's Hague ICC Vacation

Great coverage by the news networks.

Nick Kristof reports that an estimated 20-30 kids were killed at that camp.

A network actually did something positive today for the first time in world history. The BBC warned people not to call kids at the camp because they were hiding from the gunman and they probably hadn't thought to ditch/turn off their cell phones.

(No report whether News Corp. immediately called the kids.)

[XYZ]

Re: Global War on Terror III: Dick Cheney's Hague ICC Vacation

Great coverage by the news networks.

Are they not covering it?

[Priceless]

Re: Global War on Terror III: Dick Cheney's Hague ICC Vacation

Are they not covering it?

They weren't. MSNBC is now. They mentioned it for about a minute, then went back to talking about the debt ceiling. Only after an hour plus did they actually start talking about it.

CNN is talking about the heat.

[XYZ]

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They weren't. MSNBC is now. They mentioned it for about a minute, then went back to talking about the debt ceiling. Only after an hour plus did they actually start talking about it.

CNN is talking about the heat.

The "evil" Al Jazeera is all over it. As usual.

[goldy_331]

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The "evil" Al Jazeera is all over it. As usual.

It's easier to have reporters there when you know in advacne it's going to happen.

[XYZ]

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It's easier to have reporters there when you know in advacne it's going to happen.

Ha, I know you're joking but for anyone who missed it during the ruckus in Egypt, Al Jazeera English is largely made up of Brits (it seems) and its coverage of actual news makes our stations over here look like they are managed by and staffed with a bunch of thumbsuckers.

[Kepler]

Re: Global War on Terror III: Dick Cheney's Hague ICC Vacation

Ha, I know you're joking but for anyone who missed it during the ruckus in Egypt, Al Jazeera English is largely made up of Brits (it seems) and its coverage of actual news makes our stations over here look like they are managed by and staffed with a bunch of thumbsuckers.

To be fair, it's a different audience. Al Jazeera English is pitched to international businessmen, foreign policy specialists, bankers, NGO officials. The average viewer probably has a doctorate and a $200k salary. They are basically The Economist for TV.

And it shows. They do make every US network look like the slow track shop class.

[XYZ]

Re: Global War on Terror III: Dick Cheney's Hague ICC Vacation

To be fair, it's a different audience. Al Jazeera English is pitched to international businessmen, foreign policy specialists, bankers, NGO officials. The average viewer probably has a doctorate and a $200k salary. They are basically The Economist for TV.

And it shows. They do make every US network look like the slow track shop class.

No doubt, and am sure you recall there was a good discussion on here about the reasons for the differences during the Egypt deal, but regardless of why it might be the case, Al Jazeera is certainly far more informative than the slop we happily trowel on ourselves over here.