Thursday, November 1, 2007
Democrats, Republicans Spar Over Turkey Genocide Resolution
Democrats and Republicans are trading criticisms over a resolution calling the mass killings in the early 20th century of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire a genocide. VOA's Dan Robinson reports, while Democratic leaders say they still intend to bring the measure to a vote in the House of Representatives in coming weeks, they acknowledge that reaction in Turkey to a recent House committee vote approving the measure has had an impact on lawmakers
Poll: US single biggest threat to Turks’ security
Meanwhile, a recent poll by the Pew Research Center put the US favorability rating in Turkey at 9 percent versus 52 percent in 2000. Turks now see the United States as the single biggest threat to their nation's security.
"The fact is that Secretary Rice is going into the jaws of a real credibility problem and is up against some real narrow parameters in terms of what she can do to overcome that credibility problem," Parris, now with the Brookings Institution, told Reuters.
"The fact is that Secretary Rice is going into the jaws of a real credibility problem and is up against some real narrow parameters in terms of what she can do to overcome that credibility problem," Parris, now with the Brookings Institution, told Reuters.
Commentary: Turkey
By Kevin Charles Pedrick
It was an odd, 180 degree turn of events, within the span of a week. There it was, the specter of Congress, appearing to be primed and postured to seek sanctions against Turkey, for alleged acts of genocide committed in 1915.
" Say what ? "
" Alleged acts of genocide. They committed genocide. "
" In what year ? "
" 1915. "
" You have to be kidding me. "
" No. Standard operating procedure. It's the new way government is done. Remember Tilden v. Hayes ? "
" But there was a World War taking place in 1915. "
" Yes. And ? "
" And isn't that a bit of cherry picking, not to mention, belated ? Who in God's name remembers 1915 besides that Nobel Prize winner who believes that African Americans are inferior based on his studies of DNA ? Ninetenn freaking fifteen ? "
" But genocide is genocide. Saddam committed genocide, and that's why Don had to liberate the Iraqis. "
" You mean Saddam committed genocide the last time Iraq was at war with Iran ? "
" Genocide is genocide is genocide no matter how you cut it, when it's committed. Genocide's wrong. "
" And so now that Bush has decided to support the Turks, less than a week after Congress appeared to support sanctions for some obscure historic atrocity, when the Kurds rise up and start a Civil War in Turkey and the Pentagon reacts by suppressing and killing them, and then burying them in mass graves, who will have committed genocide, V.I. Lenin ? "
It was an odd, 180 degree turn of events, within the span of a week. There it was, the specter of Congress, appearing to be primed and postured to seek sanctions against Turkey, for alleged acts of genocide committed in 1915.
" Say what ? "
" Alleged acts of genocide. They committed genocide. "
" In what year ? "
" 1915. "
" You have to be kidding me. "
" No. Standard operating procedure. It's the new way government is done. Remember Tilden v. Hayes ? "
" But there was a World War taking place in 1915. "
" Yes. And ? "
" And isn't that a bit of cherry picking, not to mention, belated ? Who in God's name remembers 1915 besides that Nobel Prize winner who believes that African Americans are inferior based on his studies of DNA ? Ninetenn freaking fifteen ? "
" But genocide is genocide. Saddam committed genocide, and that's why Don had to liberate the Iraqis. "
" You mean Saddam committed genocide the last time Iraq was at war with Iran ? "
" Genocide is genocide is genocide no matter how you cut it, when it's committed. Genocide's wrong. "
" And so now that Bush has decided to support the Turks, less than a week after Congress appeared to support sanctions for some obscure historic atrocity, when the Kurds rise up and start a Civil War in Turkey and the Pentagon reacts by suppressing and killing them, and then burying them in mass graves, who will have committed genocide, V.I. Lenin ? "
Helicopters, troops pound PKK targets inside Turkey
Troops backed by the air force have killed several Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) terrorists near the eastern province of Tunceli, and suspected PKK targets were bombed by Cobra helicopters in a separate operation on the mountainous Turkish-Iraqi border in southeastern Anatolia, news reports from the region said yesterday.
Hillary la Française, Cherchez la Femme?
By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: October 31, 2007
WASHINGTON
Cécilia Sarkozy acts so American, while Hillary Clinton acts so French
Published: October 31, 2007
WASHINGTON
Cécilia Sarkozy acts so American, while Hillary Clinton acts so French
World Briefing | Middle East
Lebanon: Claim Hezbollah Has Rearmed
By WARREN HOGE
Published: November 1, 2007
In a report to the United Nations Security Council, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon expressed “great concern” over information supplied him by Israel that Hezbollah had rearmed to a level higher than before the 2006 Israeli-Hezbollah war in Lebanon
By WARREN HOGE
Published: November 1, 2007
In a report to the United Nations Security Council, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon expressed “great concern” over information supplied him by Israel that Hezbollah had rearmed to a level higher than before the 2006 Israeli-Hezbollah war in Lebanon
Iraq Asks for Iran’s Help in Calming Kurdish Crisis
By ALISSA J. RUBIN
Published: November 1, 2007
BAGHDAD, Oct. 31 — Iraqi officials asked for Iran’s help on Wednesday in negotiating a diplomatic solution to the standoff with Turkey over Kurdish guerrillas who have been using northern Iraq as a base to stage raids on Turkish troops across the border.
Published: November 1, 2007
BAGHDAD, Oct. 31 — Iraqi officials asked for Iran’s help on Wednesday in negotiating a diplomatic solution to the standoff with Turkey over Kurdish guerrillas who have been using northern Iraq as a base to stage raids on Turkish troops across the border.
Japan orders navy ships home from Afghan mission
By Linda Sieg
Thu Nov 1, 8:35 AM ET
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan ordered its naval ships on Thursday to withdraw from a refueling mission in support of U.S.-led operations in Afghanistan as a political deadlock kept the government from meeting a deadline to extend the activities.
Thu Nov 1, 8:35 AM ET
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan ordered its naval ships on Thursday to withdraw from a refueling mission in support of U.S.-led operations in Afghanistan as a political deadlock kept the government from meeting a deadline to extend the activities.
Iranian FM expected in Turkey for talks on Kurdish rebels
ANKARA (AFP) - Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki will hold talks in Ankara Friday with his Turkish counterpart Ali Babacan on mounting tensions with Iraq over separatist Kurdish rebels, an Iranian diplomat told AFP.
Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the U.S. and the Twisted Path to Confrontation
The American-Iranian relationship has been fraught for years—indeed, for far longer than most Americans realize—USA Today diplomatic correspondent Slavin shows. Interweaving history with current events, she demonstrates how decades-old American perfidy continues to color Iranian expectations, much as the 1979 hostage crisis continues to affect Americans today. Without losing sight of the brutality with which the Islamic Republic was established—and is often maintained—Slavin skillfully presents its surprisingly multifaceted culture and political establishment, where mullahs are sometimes on the side of reform, and Western-minded businessmen might support systematic corruption and repression
Commentary: Inexorable march toward war with Iran?
There were some things far more frightening this week than Halloween's small ghouls and goblins — and the scariest of all is the Bush administration's seemingly inexorable march toward military confrontation with Iran.
Attacking Iran for Israel?
With 200-300 nuclear weapons in their arsenal, Israelis enjoy a nuclear monopoly in the Middle East. They mean to keep it that way, and they want the U.S. to help. Tools
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is at her mushroom-cloud hyperbolic best, and this time Iran is the target. Her claim last week that "the policies of Iran constitute perhaps the single greatest challenge to American security interests in the Middle East and around the world" is simply too much of a stretch
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is at her mushroom-cloud hyperbolic best, and this time Iran is the target. Her claim last week that "the policies of Iran constitute perhaps the single greatest challenge to American security interests in the Middle East and around the world" is simply too much of a stretch
Gulf Arabs offer to provide uranium to Iran: report
DUBAI (Reuters) - U.S.-allied Gulf states are willing to set up a body to provide enriched uranium to Iran to defuse Tehran's stand-off with the West over its nuclear plan, Saudi Arabia's foreign minister told a newspaper on Thursday
W.M.D. in Iran? Q.E.D.
CHENEY: Well, I think we are in the final stages of diplomacy, obviously. We have done virtually everything we can with respect to carrots, if you will. It’s time for squash. Not to mention mushrooms, clouds of them.
U.N. still probing Iran nuclear case
The head of a watchdog agency says he can't verify that the nation's program is purely for peaceful purposes.
By Maggie Farley, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
October 30, 2007
UNITED NATIONS -- The head of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog agency said Monday that the inquiry into Iran's nuclear case was not closed, as the country's president proclaimed to the United Nations last month, and called it regrettable that Iran continued to enrich uranium despite the Security Council's demand to stop the process.
By Maggie Farley, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
October 30, 2007
UNITED NATIONS -- The head of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog agency said Monday that the inquiry into Iran's nuclear case was not closed, as the country's president proclaimed to the United Nations last month, and called it regrettable that Iran continued to enrich uranium despite the Security Council's demand to stop the process.
Wider Iranian threat is feared
Many U.S. officials believe small conflicts on the ground or at sea are potentially riskier than a nuclear program.
By Paul Richter and Peter Spiegel, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
October 31, 2007
WASHINGTON -- While the White House dwells on Iran's nuclear program, senior U.S. diplomats and military officers fear that an incident on the ground in Iraq is a more likely trigger for a possible confrontation with the Islamic Republic
By Paul Richter and Peter Spiegel, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
October 31, 2007
WASHINGTON -- While the White House dwells on Iran's nuclear program, senior U.S. diplomats and military officers fear that an incident on the ground in Iraq is a more likely trigger for a possible confrontation with the Islamic Republic
Price to pay if Iran does not halt enrichment: US diplomat
VIENNA (AFP) - Iran will have a price to pay if it does not cooperate with the UN nuclear watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency and halt uranium enrichment, a top US official said Thursday in Vienna.
German FM moots EU sanctions on Iran
by Jean-Luc Renaudie
TEL AVIV (AFP) - Visiting German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Thursday raised the possibility of EU sanctions against Iran after Israel called for Berlin's backing over its enemy's nuclear drive.
TEL AVIV (AFP) - Visiting German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Thursday raised the possibility of EU sanctions against Iran after Israel called for Berlin's backing over its enemy's nuclear drive.
Russia and China block tough Iran sanctions: U.S.
By Mark Heinrich
VIENNA (Reuters) - The United States said on Thursday Russia and China had been blocking tough U.N. sanctions against Iran for months and pledged a drive to impose them if Iran did not halt nuclear activity within two weeks.
VIENNA (Reuters) - The United States said on Thursday Russia and China had been blocking tough U.N. sanctions against Iran for months and pledged a drive to impose them if Iran did not halt nuclear activity within two weeks.
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