Foreign Confidential ™
Foreign News and Analysis Since April 2005 -- formerly China Confidential -- What's Happening in the World
Monday, October 01, 2012
Bangladesh Promises to Protect Buddhists
'Green on Blue' Attacks Increasing in Afghanistan
Sunday, September 30, 2012
Nobel Laureate with Nazi Past Again Provokes Israel
Turkey's Islamist PM Plays to the Mob
Fanatic Muslims Burn Bangladesh Buddhist Temples
Where's the outrage?
Fact is, there is only one organized religion that is threatening civilized humanity--including secular Muslims--across the world. The Obama administration, which insists on referring to "the Muslim world"--a supposed superpower--ignores the threatening overlap of organized and rightwing political Islam in order to maintain a fictional narrative that supports a policy of appeasing and attempting to align with a clerical fascist creed that the administration regards as an unstoppable and inherently progressive force.
Morsi Makes Ominous Pledge to Aid Palestinians, Syrians
Related: Egyptians Fear Morsi Dictatorship
Iran Economy Nearing Collapse
Clearly, Iran's nuclear program is not for peaceful purposes. Why would an oil-rich country incur isolation and risk ruination and (nuclear) war for civilian nuclear power?
Endnote: President Obama's obsessive use of the term diplomacy is misleading and foolish. We're way beyond diplomacy with the clerical fascist regime--the missile-mad, turbaned tyranny. Crippling sanctions and covert operations (assassinations and sabotage) occupy a space between diplomacy and full-blown conflict. The next step, logically, could and perhaps should be an international, oil and gasoline blockade of the Islamist power that is bent on overthrowing the status quo (power relations among nations).
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Iran Paper Says US, UK, 'Zionists' Spread Homosexuality
This is the regime that U.S. President Obama sought to "engage"--code for appease and align with in order to pacify the Middle East and Central Asia. When the perfidious attempt at a Grand Bargain entered in utter failure, Obama turned to Islamist-led Turkey, whose leaders dream of restoring the Ottoman Empire, as a counter to Iran's imperialist drive. The entire effort allowed Iran to continue its atomic advance; as a result, the regime is closer than ever to becoming a nuclear arms power.
Regardless of how one feels about Mitt Romney's economic policies, there is no denying that Obama has pursued a pro-Islamist foreign policy that has resulted in the Islamist conquests of Libya and Egypt--the abandonment and betrayal of Mubarak recalls Carter's catastrophic abandonment and betrayal of the Iranian Shah--and now threatens to also put the Muslim Brotherhood in charge of Syria.
Battle for Aleppo Rages
Rebel Offensive Continues
By Carla Babb
Battles are raging in Syria's most populous city, Aleppo, as rebels continued their offensive to take the city that began three days ago.
Clashes broke out in Aleppo's Arkub and Azzizia neighborhoods Saturday. Witnesses tell the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that at least three rebel fighters were killed in fighting in the central Old City district, which has suffered heavy shelling.
Rebels announced a new offensive against government troops in Aleppo on Thursday, but it appears that neither side has made significant gains. Syria's official SANA news agency reports the government is targeting and killing what it describes as "terrorists" in Aleppo.
The Syrian Observatory says government troops also bombarded areas in Homs, Idlib and Daraa provinces Saturday.
The latest violence comes as the U.N. General Assembly is wrapping up its general debate period in New York. U.S. President Barack Obama repeated his calls for the Syrian president to step down.
"We intervened in Libya alongside a broad coalition, and with the mandate of the United Nations Security Council, because we had the ability to stop the slaughter of innocents, and because we believed that the aspirations of the people were more powerful than a tyrant," he said. "And as we meet here, we again declare that the regime of Bashar al-Assad must come to an end so that the suffering of the Syrian people can stop and a new dawn can begin."
But the Syrian Observatory's Mataz Suheil said he was dissatisfied with the general debate speeches.
"The representative of each state used Syria just to bolster their position domestically. There was no actual movement toward solving the situation," he said.
He called the U.N.'s failure to have its special envoy to Syria speak before the General Assembly "ridiculous" and said the General Assembly lacks a unified stance to stop the bloodshed.
"It's not a priority to stop it at the moment. It's a low-burning conflict that is going to be solved at a later date when it's deemed necessary," said Suheil.
The Syrian Observatory says Saturday's violence across Syria killed at least 45 people, including three children. That brings the death toll to nearly 31,000 since the uprising began in March of last year.
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