"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste," Rahm Emanuel said, correctly. But if the White House does not prominently, quickly and decisively bring all assets to bear in response to the flood crisis in Pakistan, it will be letting a serious crisis go to waste. It will be passing up an opportunity to show the Muslim world that the United States cares more about saving Muslim lives than taking them away. It will be passing up a unique opportunity to reframe and de-escalate the conflict in Afghanistan. It will be crying "Uncle" to Islamist militants in Pakistan, who in the battle for flood relief, are cleaning our clocks.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/obamas-pakistan-katrina-h_b_678755.html http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/8/11/134653/210 http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/670 -- Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected] Urge Congress to Support a Timetable for Military Withdrawal from Afghanistan http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/feingold-mcgovern _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
