Another diplomat killed overseas

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Right on cue.

[deckeda]

samintx wrote:
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I need to know if the President was in his PJ's or playing basketball during this very tragic event. Obviously he could have prevented it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/08/world/....html?_r=0

Check what TV program was on that night or if there were people wanting campaign money raised. Do we need Hillary's comment here?
It's worse than ANY of that. Golf, not basketball is the real issue here.

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John Kerry is the Secretary of State, and he's already commented.

[Gutenberg]

He hasn't been indicted, but he deserves to be. Countrywide and Merrill Lynch weren't the only companies juggling the books. The only reason a bunch of those major banks are still around is the Doctrine of TBTF.

[OWC Jamie]

Bush and Biden's New World Order have vanquished al Qaeda and the Taliban.
The War is over. We won.

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Gutenberg wrote:
He hasn't been indicted, but he deserves to be. Countrywide and Merrill Lynch weren't the only companies juggling the books. The only reason a bunch of those major banks are still around is the Doctrine of TBTF.

I agree that the federal government saved the big banks with loans that are being (or have already been) repaid. What would make more sense than saying we'd never do that again (because it might be the right thing to do) is to reinstate regulatory conditions more like those of the Glass Steagall era that would prevent this from happening to begin with.

I don't know what law was specifically violated by Ken Lewis that could lead him to be indicted.

[Black]

Lemon Drop wrote:
Hopefully we'll have diplomats in Afghanistan long after the troops have left. I admire this young woman and what she was trying to do and how she wanted to represent our country.

I was making a dig at the Benghazi nuts, who will no doubt barely take notice of this latest death in the middle east, since there is no looming election.

A case could be made (or not) that this shows the President is right not to withdraw troops too hastily, as this country is obviously still unstable and violent.

Then there's this, to make the heart sink even more...
At least 10 Afghan children were killed Saturday in a joint military operation by Afghan and NATO forces, according to two Afghan officials.

Not sure what this thread is about-- the link in the top post only goes to a story about the children being killed.

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Black wrote:
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Hopefully we'll have diplomats in Afghanistan long after the troops have left. I admire this young woman and what she was trying to do and how she wanted to represent our country.

I was making a dig at the Benghazi nuts, who will no doubt barely take notice of this latest death in the middle east, since there is no looming election.

A case could be made (or not) that this shows the President is right not to withdraw troops too hastily, as this country is obviously still unstable and violent.

Then there's this, to make the heart sink even more...
At least 10 Afghan children were killed Saturday in a joint military operation by Afghan and NATO forces, according to two Afghan officials.

Not sure what this thread is about-- the link in the top post only goes to a story about the children being killed.


Fighting has intensified in Afghanistan recently as the weather has warmed up and the so-called fighting season has kicked into gear. On Saturday, a suicide bomber attacked a convoy of Afghan and United States officials in Zabul Province, killing three American soldiers and two civilians, including Anne Smedinghoff, a 25-year-old diplomat in the public affairs division of the State Department. Another employee remains in critical condition.

In an emotional eulogy to the staff and families of the American Consulate in Istanbul, Secretary of State John Kerry talked on Sunday about Ms. Smedinghoff, from Illinois.

Mr. Kerry said Ms. Smedinghoff had previously served in Venezuela. He deplored the “harsh contradiction” of her death, which occurred as the Americans were bringing books to a school.

“The folks who want to kill people, and that is all they want to do, are scared of knowledge,” Mr. Kerry said. “They want to shut the doors, and they don’t want people to make their choices about their future.”

That incident, the deadliest for Americans in Afghanistan this year,

[SteveG]

samintx wrote:
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I need to know if the President was in his PJ's or playing basketball during this very tragic event. Obviously he could have prevented it.

Check what TV program was on that night or if there were people wanting campaign money raised. Do we need Hillary's comment here?

It's always a joy to see the Wingers go into one of their colorful ethnic dances.

[max]

Lemon Drop wrote:
A case could be made (or not) that this shows the President is right not to withdraw troops too hastily, as this country is obviously still unstable and violent.

So how long, in your esteemed opinion, do we have to keep our troops in Afghanistan, to bring the state of peace and keep the country stable AFTER we leave?...