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Posted at 11:00pm on Jun. 10, 2008 The peace agreements between Pakistan and the Taliban (that you probably haven't heard of)
By Jeff Emanuel
An Erstwhile "Ally" in the War on Terror Sells its Soul for Thirty Pieces of Silver and an Agreement its Enemies will Never Live up to
On February 17, the Pakistani government and the Taliban jointly signed a peace treaty dealing with the North Waziristan region of the Afghan/Pakistani border area (see graphic at right, and click for more detailed map). The agreement was shrouded in secrecy, with its terms being kept under wraps by both parties.
This weekend, a Pakistani news organization, the Daily Times, managed to obtain a copy of the agreement, which they roughly outlined on their web site.
They report that the agreement, "inked between the government and the Utmanzai tribes on February 17 to fight Taliban-linked militancy through support from the local population," contains the following terms:
- • Sharing the agreement’s contents with the media violates the terms laid down in the document [Auth. note: There is no information available yet as to how this leaking of the peace agreement to the Daily Times will affect the overall agreement, given this requirement]
- • "Al Qaeda-linked militants" are allowed to live in North Waziristan "as long as they pledge to remain peaceful"
- • "All foreigners" are required to "leave the area"
- • No "parallel government of suspected Taliban militants" will be tolerated
- • There will be "no attacks on security personnel or government employees" and no "target killings" will be "initiated" [Auth. note: The Daily Times points out that "suspected Taliban militants continue to blow up CD shops in Miranshah and target killings have continued despite the February 17 peace deal"]
- • Any violator of the peace accord will be fined 50 million Pakistani Rupees [Auth. note: Approximately U.S. $742,000]
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Posted at 1:10pm on Jun. 5, 2008 U.S. representatives assaulted, detained in Zimbabwe for asking too many questions
You don't like that we arrested the political opposition leader? Well then, let's see how you like us arresting *you*!
By Jeff Emanuel
Apropos of Leon's post on the tyranny of Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwean regime comes this story of events from our Western overnight:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Zimbabwe police stopped and detained U.S. and British embassy staff, slashing the tires of the cars they were traveling in, on Thursday in a move the U.S. ambassador blamed on the southern African country's government.
"Police put up a roadblock, stopped the vehicles, slashed the tires, reached in and grabbed telephones from my personnel, and the war veterans (Mugabe's supporters) threatened to burn the vehicles with my people inside unless they got out and accompanied police to a station nearby," U.S. Ambassador James McGee said in an interview on CNN.
"We do believe this is coming directly from the top," he said.
And, from the AP:
Paul Engelstad, spokesman for the U.S. Embassy, says a U.S. Embassy staffer was beaten and tires of cars in the convoy were slashed.
Engelstad says the group was still being detained at a roadblock in rural Zimbabwe.
He says U.S. Ambassador James McGee, who did not go on the trip, was pressing Zimbabwean officials to release them.
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Posted at 3:46pm on May 1, 2008 Terrorist Obama endorsers claim that "Jewish leaders planned the Holocaust to kill their disabled and handicapped"
Hey, at least they're admitting it happened at all, yes?
By Jeff Emanuel
Jewish leaders "planned the Holocaust to kill disabled and handicapped" Jews to avoid having to care for them, "says Hamas state television (yes, Condi, I'm sure they're just great people who want the same things we do -- and yes, Jimmy, I'm sure that this is the result of apartheid).
Last week, with the April 27 Holocaust Remembrance Day approaching, those lovers of peace (and of Barack Obama) who just want to be left alone by the murderously avaricious Jews to their north and west let fly their latest statement on that pesky little Holocaust that may or may not have taken place 60 years ago (hey, that's a lot of time, and facts get fuzzy after far less has passed -- besides, Bill Ayers hasn't tried to kill anybody in almost 40 years; after 50% longer time has gone by, shouldn't we be shutting up about that Holocaust thing and allowing that Hitler guy to be re-introduced into the cast of what Obama refers to as "respectable fixtures in mainstream liberal Chicago").
Aaaaaanywho, the Hamas State TV program, broadcast last week, called the Holocaust a "Zionist plot" with two goals:
- To eliminate "disabled and handicapped" Jews by sending them to death camps, so they would not be a burden on the future state of Israel.
- To make "the Jews seem persecuted" so they could "benefit from international sympathy."
Video of the Hamas TV segment is below the fold. Read on.
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Posted at 12:21pm on Dec. 10, 2007 NR on Huckabee's Foreign Policy Views [OK, now comments *actually* enabled]
By Dan McLaughlin
On Iran, Huckabee is at his most troubling. He accuses the administration of “proceeding down only one track with Iran: armed confrontation.” This is false, and the kind of rhetoric you’d expect from DailyKos bloggers, not a Republican presidential candidate. Huckabee thinks it has been a lack of diplomatic engagement that has soured our relations with Iran: “We haven’t had diplomatic relations with Iran in almost 30 years, my whole adult life and a lot of good it’s done. Putting this in human terms, all of us know that when we stop talking to a parent or a sibling or a friend, it’s impossible to accomplish anything, impossible to resolve differences and move the relationship forward. The same is true for countries.”
This is the kernel of Huckabee’s foreign policy. He wants to anthropomorphize international relations and bring a Christian commitment to the Golden Rule to our affairs with other nations. As he told the Des Moines Register the other day, “You treat others the way you’d like to be treated. That’s to me the fundamental issue that has to be re-established in our dealings with other countries.”
This is deeply naïve. Countries aren’t people, and the world is more dangerous than a Sunday church social. Threats, deception, and — as a last resort — violence must play a role in international relations. Differences cannot always be worked out through sweet persuasion. A U.S. president who doesn’t realize this will repeat the experience of President Jimmy Carter at his most ineffectual.
Read the whole thing. I'm warming to Huckabee's electability; he's a likeable guy and a great speaker. One could make the case that his ardently pro-life convictions matter more than his un-conservative approach to economic issues and the size of government. But any president's Job #1 is being the Commander-in-Chief and "decider" in foreign affairs. And the more I see of Huckabee's views on foreign policy, the more he looks like a guy who has no business doing the most important part of the job.
Posted at 2:16am on Nov. 2, 2007 I Had Resolved To Take On Ron Paul's Foreign Policy Views . . .
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
But I see that Mike Moyer has beaten me to the task and said everything that I wanted to say. Nicely done and his post deserves your eyeballs.
Posted at 4:40pm on Sep. 10, 2007 "All of the people in Iraq are watching this tonight....
By Jeff Emanuel
...it is very, very important."
--General Rasheed, commander of Iraqi Police in Samarra, Iraq, speaking of today's testimony of General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker before Congress as it played on his television across the room.
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