I just read here that Obama had to distance himself from Brzezinski.

I find that somewhat disturbing.

From the article:
"If he is in for some tough questions, then Obama got a decent tuneup in this city two days ago, when he attended a meeting with about 100 local Jewish community leaders."

I think it's conventional wisdom that the international community failed to stop the Rwanda genocide. Haunted by the horror images of the Rwanda killings, politicians all over the world vowed to not repeat the same mistake. There is still hope to do  something about the Darfur genocide, they insisted repeatedly. But is there? I doubt it, especially as I watch the news out of Kenya the last two days.

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Go, do it.  

I wonder what the lawyers here at dailykos think about the proposal Alan Dershowitz made in this article. He suggests to create two positions in the Justice department that would provide for better independence of the DoJ from executive pressures, if I understand him correctly.

He mentioned that this model is used in most Western democracies and I tried to figure out how most European countries provide for an independent judiciary. It's complicated to understand for a common lay person like me. So I ask the lawyerly minds among you all: "Would it change anything?"

There have been very important statements made on that hearing and I can't understand why there hasn't been made much more noise about the content of the testimonies.

I still haven't understood one point. Please explain. I will delete this non-diary, if necessary, as it isn't a diary, but I need an answer please.

Sometimes life isn't as black and white as we wished it were. You can be a part of the Nazi death camp machinery and love a Jew til death do them part.

How do you judge the morals of this woman? Especially interesting, because Efraim Zuroff, the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Chief Nazi hunter, said that "Germany is full of people like her".

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I would be happy to accept any help to improve the translation.

Or if the subject is of any interest to others, please go ahead and write another diary about it.

It's late and I have to go, but would look into comments tomorrow morning.

According to the administration of the United States, "moral clarity" was central to the reasons for going to war with Iraq. Saddam Hussein's regime was bad and had to be changed - it was the right thing to do.

Unfortunately for some, the right to stand up for your moral beliefs and act upon them only extended in one direction. While it showed "moral clarity" to take part in the war; two US soldiers learnt that dissenting was a punishable offence. Dissenting from the official view of the morality or otherwise of this war led to imprisonment for Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejía Castillo and Sergeant Abdullah William Webster.

If moral clarity is a thing that can't be agreed upon within administration, DoD, State Department and Congress, I ask myself, if the Pentagon would still have the right to deny members of the Armed Forces the Conscientious Objector Status.

If Congress can conscientiously object, so should soldiers.

Is there anything in the books that would allow Congress to do that?

Something caught my interest, as I haven't heard that before and so I just wanted to point it out to you.  It's the stuff spy novels are made off - though I admit I never read spy novels, so forgive me if this diary turns out to be pure nonsense. Anyway, if you, like me, haven't heard and read the Rolling Stone article of last week yet, you might want to have a look at it. Because people like Lawrence Wilkerson just said on Late Edition that he wants to dig into that Rendon group much deeper. And this is all about the Rendonites.  

But my guts feelings tell me that the best cure for the Katrina victims to overcome their trauma is to get to work asap.

Imagine the whole US would be devastated the way NO is right now and you wouldn't have another safe place where someone could transport you to, you wouldn't have no choice but pick up the pieces, clean-up, reconstruct and live forwardly.

I can't help it, but images from Berlin, May 8th 1945, after it was defeated and bombed flat out to rubble come to my mind. I know the first thing you do after such a destruction is to pick up the bricks and put them back together to build a house, no matter what.

There is a profit to be made to offer loans and mortgages to illegal immigrants who want and can afford to buy a house in the US.

It may be against the law for the illegal immigrants to be in the U.S. or for an employer to hire them, but there's apparently nothing illegal about selling something to them.

I got confused and therefore wrote this diary. Forgive my English. I am no writer.

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