Good Substitute For American Press- The Foreign Press
Look around newspapers from other countries and you get the idea that the only major press organizations that see what’s really happening are NOT American. In fact, editorial pages from the mideast and the Pacific Rim show more depth and honesty than our corporate press.
Here’s what the rest of world is saying, that few here are saying.
The Egyptian Gazette Editorial Page
Iraq is a trap that neither the U.S., Iraq nor anyone else knows how to escape. The United States cannot withdraw without having any progress to show, yet the longer it stays the worse things get. If the U.S. remains in Iraq, the casualties will topple Bush and his administration will be tried in a court of law," said el-Nagar.
http://news.gom.com.eg/...
The Egyptian Gazette Editorial Page
Ahead of the Sharm el-Sheikh conference on stabilizing Iraq, Egyptian commentator El-Sayyed el-Nagar of the Al-Akhbar newspaper wrote Friday, "every day, the United States spends $250 million on its occupation of Iraq. So far, it has wasted $350 billion there, while 3,500 of its soldiers have been killed and 25,000 injured, according to official American statistics.
Meanwhile, a once-strong Arab state has completely collapsed, and there is no one capable of determining the human and financial cost.
Iraq is a trap that neither the U.S., Iraq nor anyone else knows how to escape. The United States cannot withdraw without having any progress to show, yet the longer it stays the worse things get. If the U.S. remains in Iraq, the casualties will topple Bush and his administration will be tried in a court of law," said el-Nagar.
http://news.gom.com.eg/...
Bush: No President Ever Harmed His Country as Much- Jorge Gómez Barata-Argentina
Bush is the only U.S. commander-in-chief to have initiated one war, only to have lost three. He never managed to catch bin Laden nor destroy al-Qaeda; he failed to defeat terrorism; he wasted the political capital awarded him by September 11th; and public opinion has come to detest him. The nation, once indulgent of his lies - lethal lies for over 3,000 of its own sons and daughters - no longer believes him. No U.S. President has ever harmed his country as much.
It's difficult to find one of the 43 U.S. Presidents who hasn't been involved in some war abroad, and, although they haven't always won, they could always count on the support of the political elite and American people. The most lauded was Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was rewarded by his compatriots by being re-elected four times, and the most repudiated is George W. Bush.
The Congress and the U.S. military command have as good as recognized that the war is lost and are adding their own criticism to that heard across wide segments of the population. The feeling that prolonging the U.S. presence will only make the defeat more costly is beginning to be unanimous. In war there are never ties. In the Iraq War there is already a singular loser: George Bush.
http://www.watchingamerica.com/...
Paul Berton Edmonton Canada
Four years later, more than 3,000 U.S. soldiers are dead, and some 24,000 wounded. Bush administration claims that Iraq harboured weapons of mass destruction have been revealed as outright lies, swallowed unquestioningly by the media. The war costs U.S. taxpayers $200 million a day and $1 trillion so far.
http://www.edmontonsun.com/...
America's Debate on Guns: Nearly 'Incomprehensible' Daniela Schöneburg Schultz- Allgemeine Zeitung, Namibia
It's nearly incomprehensible: Even a bloodbath like this - which could happen again any day - is not sufficient to make arms possession more difficult or even implement existing laws more faithfully. In some of the federal states, firearms are traded registration-free in flea markets and trade shows.
http://www.az.com.na/...
Australians Comment On Condi’s Growing Irrelevance
Less than two years later, there is no longer any talk among her erstwhile supporters of a presidential campaign. The Condi for president websites have been closed. The lavish media attention in the US and overseas has evaporated....The better explanation is that Rice's silence is simply another illustration of the Bush Administration's incompetence and inability to get beyond playing politics and doing spin to actually doing the hard work of implementing a coherent set of policies.
For all the razzle dazzle of Rice's first year as Secretary of State, it is hard to think of any real and substantial achievements. Her so-called "transformational diplomacy" in the Middle East has achieved virtually nothing. None of the region's leaders it seems take her seriously...Her decline mirrors the disintegration of the Bush Administration. Perhaps that's the real reason why she has remained silent as George Bush has tried in vain to sell Americans on an Iraq policy that a majority of them are convinced can't succeed.
http://www.theage.com.au/...
Tunisian Editorial Notes That Bush's Bumbling Imperial Foreign Policy Has Restarted The Cold War.
But the Atlantic Alliance doesn't intend to stop there. It is now at the point of installing an anti-missile shield in the Czech Republic and Poland - in other words close to the Russian border. This threat, which has now been revealed without disguise, has managed to shake the legendary calm of the man of the Kremlin. Vladimir Putin cannot swallow a snake of this quality. He is in revolt.
The speech he gave last Thursday [April 26] before both Houses of Parliament was one of a great cat on the prowl. It was a true indictment filled with unusual verbal violence, in which he assaulted the Western "colonizers" led by the United States of America. The Russian President disputed the NATO's thesis, according to which the deployment of an anti-missile shield in the Czech Republic and Poland aims is meant to protect ... American territory from the Mullah's ballistic missiles: "these missiles cannot reach the United States, but can hit Russia. They would control Russia right up to the Urals if we don't take countermeasures, and we will," he threatened before announcing his country's withdrawal from the treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe (EFC ).
This was the second time in two months that Putin has raged against Washington and its Western allies. At the end of February during a speech at a conference on security in Munich, he was not short of harsh words to stigmatize, with unheard-of venom, the expansionist road taken by George Walker Bush, accusing him of "imposing a unipolar world in which nobody feels safe ."
The speech last Thursday marked a clear escalation of Russia's position; On the one hand, Moscow decided to withdraw from the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty until Western countries comply with it, and secondly, Russia will "point" its missiles at America's new sites in Poland and the Czech Republic. This is a development that doesn't augur well ...
http://www.tunishebdo.com.tn/...
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