Don’t miss this guest post over at LaGringa.
A small taste:
Are we to believe that Jose Manuel Zelaya returned to Honduras, at great risk to himself, in order to be re-instated as president only to turn power over to the newly elected president less than eight weeks later? I’ve still got that beach front property available. Any takers?
Here is a link to the BBC who has a video of an ugly wave coming in.
And here is a link to UMCOR, my personal favorite disaster charity.
There is too much information out there for my tastes today.
1. On Al-Qaeda. Do we really need to know and should we know that infiltrated spies en masse are helping us get the upper hand and whew, do we have a lot of them!
Current and former senior U.S. officials, who spoke about intelligence matters on the condition of anonymity, confirmed what one former CIA official called “our penetration of al-Qaeda.” A senior administration official said that success had come “because of, first of all, very good intelligence capabilities . . . to locate and identify individuals who are part of the al-Qaeda organization.”
Dude…you’re a CIA official. Learn to keep a secret!!!!
2. Sarkozy’s disgust with Obama. France and the UK wanted to unite with the US and take on Iran at the UN. Obama didn’t want to (more on that in number 3) and instead wanted to hold off until the G20 meeting.
Le Monde’s diplomatic correspondent, Natalie Nougayrède, reports that a draft of Mr. Sarkozy’s speech to the Security Council Thursday included a section on Iran’s latest deception. Forced to scrap that bit, the French President let his frustration show with undiplomatic gusto in his formal remarks, laying into what he called the “dream” of disarmament
I understand diplomacy. A bit anyway – not being very diplomatic myself. These 3 major countries decided to do this thing (confronting Iran) together. They really wanted Obama on board and he wanted to push it back a few days. And so they all went together and did this thing at the G20 meeting.
So how on earth was Sarkozy a) “forced” to NOT confront Iran while at the same time b) sharing all his feelings about this later a diplomatic thing? Either he didn’t follow through or the US has some serious leverage on him that even tiny little Honduras won’t put up with and so Sarkozy is just a talkative tool.
3. On that Obama not wanting to confront Iran at the UN meeting. Apparently it’s because :
But the Administration told the French that it didn’t want to “spoil the image of success” for Mr. Obama’s debut at the U.N.
Again – I know that images count. The image of success is important to big shots.
BUT I don’t want to hear that’s how they’re making their decisions else it doesn’t actually count as a true image!!!!
