This Week’s Podcast: Richard Haass of the Council on Foreign Relations
Email"It kind of gave Off Broadway theater a run for its money," Dr. Richard Haass said of Col. Moammar Gadhafi's speech yesterday to the United Nations General Assembly.
Said Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations and a former State Department official in the administration of former President George W. Bush, "What’s particularly bizarre here was the fact that over the last few years – going back six or so years now – Libya has essentially taken itself out of what you might call the international penalty box. … Then yesterday Col. Gadhafi comes to the United Nations and he undoes a lot of any good that Libyan policy may have accomplished and obviously it reinforced the sense of problems coming from Libya after Mr. Megrahi was released by Scottish authorities. So yesterday, I think he compounded Libya’s problems in this country and the world and made it difficult even for his sympathizers to be sympathetic as he emptied out the General Assembly."
Haass was our guest on the Political Punch Podcast this week, which you can listen to on iTunes or by clicking HERE. The podcast is produced by Huma Khan.
Asked about Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's comment yesterday that further sanctions against Iran may be "inevitable" because of its nuclear weapons program, Haass said, "this is a good sign. It suggests that they might be willing to support another round. The problem is that whatever the Security Council is likely to do is unlikely to be sufficiently painful to have a material impact on Iranian behavior. But that said, if the Russians are willing to join some sort of a consensus statement to slightly increase the pressure on Iran, then the president’s trip to New York was worth it just for that."
The White House has insisted that its new strategy on missile defense was not initiated to curry favor with Russia, but after meeting with President Obama yesterday, Medvedev made a point of saying President Obama's new position "takes into consideration our concerns on the missile defense which is needed for Europe and for the world."
Said Haass: "It’s one of those great diplomatic moments where the United States wants to justify its decision — which by the way I thought was the correct decision on the basis of technology, threat, cost — but it doesn’t want to look in any way like it was sacrificing its commitment to the security of Eastern European countries in order to curry Russian favor vis a vis Iran so the United States wants to appear to delink, if you will, our decision on the missile system from what Russia might do in the Security Council on Iran sanctions. For Mr. Medvedev, it’s just the opposite. In order to justify a move in Russian policy to become tougher towards Iran, he has to point to something. So he needs to point to the American decision and say, 'They gave us something, so now we’re prepared to give them something.' So each side needs a completely different approach to this to manage their own particular politics and that’s what you saw coming to a head yesterday."
We also talked about President Obama's speech to the U.N., Israel and Mideast peace, Pakistan, and other issues.
Haass was our guest on the Political Punch Podcast this week, which you can listen to on iTunes or by clicking HERE.
– jpt
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Nice work. More Podcasts and decent interviews please! The news in not nearly as in depth as is possible with longer form articles, interviews, and stories. It would also nice if you link to, or post, all of Obama, Kaddaffi’s, and Amadinijad’s address/speech/rant for mp3 download.
Posted by: Ed | September 24, 2009, 11:53 am 11:53 am
Do we count the costs to others? Do we care what happens to our allies…. the Poles, the Czechs, the Israelis? What will happen when our allies decide we are untrustworthy? Team Obama seems short-sighted and in denial about human nature and history.
At this point, all I hear is the tune… the wheels of the bus go thump, thump, thump.
Posted by: SjB | September 24, 2009, 1:36 pm 1:36 pm
Quaddafi is a cuckoo bird. But he seems to be relatively harmless at this point and ready for a former terrorist assisted living community. Perhaps his care givers can intervene to get him to give up the tent.
Posted by: hopesprings52 | September 24, 2009, 2:39 pm 2:39 pm
Here’s the first event that we know will forever be a part of the Obama legacy:
“”The dollar looks awfully like sterling after the First World War,” said David Bloom, the bank’s currency chief.
“The whole picture of risk-reward for emerging market currencies has changed. It is not so much that they have risen to our standards, it is that we have fallen to theirs. It used to be that sovereign risk was mainly an emerging market issue but the events of the last year have shown that this is no longer the case. Look at the UK – debt is racing up to 100pc of GDP,” he said.”
Posted by: Fascist Hyena | September 24, 2009, 3:49 pm 3:49 pm
Nice work
Posted by: kaatie | September 24, 2009, 3:50 pm 3:50 pm
America is going to keep on giving Israel anything it wants because the American Government is totally controlled by the invisible hand of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) which was formed back 1921 by a group of wealthy Jews.
The main purpose of the CFR is to over-throw the American Government from within then control the whole world. That is exactly why both parties like exactly alike now, regardless which party we elect to run the country we always get the exact same polices because both parties are control from within by the “CFR party”.
The American Government has been control by “CFR Party” since it was formed by Wealthy Jews back in 1921.
A lot of people think this all just too crazy to be really happening. But, I have spent many, many hours researching the CFR and all their card carrying members.
The CFR now have so much control over every major policy decision the American Government makes. I personally think this control is so major that the American People have lost total control of the Federal Government to all of the Super wealthy Jews.
It is absolutely impossible to regain back control with the Ballet Box because the CFR have so much money they are just like any major Drug Cartel they buy everyone and everything that stands in their path to get anything they want.
This goes way beyond just the Federal Government, the “CFR Party” controls all of the TV stations, all of print and Newspaper Companies and all of the large International Banks and International Manufacturing Companies are also control by the CFR. There just seems to be no end to their power and control.
The “CFR Party” even controls the “American Federal Reserve, the International monetary Fund, the World Bank”. These are just a small part of their control.
I know you will think I am crazy.
But do you remember a few years ago they made a couple of movies about where America was secretly invade by people from another planet and they would inject something into the back of the necks of Americans and they would physically enter and take over the peoples body. They were trying to over-throw the entire world.
Well of course they are not entering your body and taking over control of your body. But, they do have this secret concerted plan of forcing their Global ideas upon every American Citizen regardless of what you want and the American people have no idea that this is even happening inside of the Federal Government.
The biggest problem is that this “CFR PARTY” plan will not work and they are destroying America in the process and they really do not care in the least what happens to America.
It almost looks like they are trying to deliberately destroy America.
Take NAFTA and the WTO as an example.
This was all part of the “CFR Party” original plan to FAST-TRACK these two International Global Trade deals through Congress back in 1992 and 1993. The Republicans were already on board so they bought off enough Democrats to get both NAFTA and the WTO passed.
Bill Clinton was the Democratic President at the time was given well over 109 million dollars after he served 8 years in the White House for his help to arm twist some Democrats to help pass both of these bills into law.
I keep telling everyone if the Federal Government really wanted out of this Depression we are in right now and make no mistake about that is exactly where America is in right now.
They all just keep saying next year, next year things will get better. They may really get better for a short period of time but, then we are going to fall right back into the SOUP again.
Here is why American is not getting out of this Depression so easy this time, till we bring all of the jobs back to American that was shipped off shore to China during the last 15+ years.
American needs many good paying Jobs right now. The only way America is going to create good paying jobs is to stop sending all of the good paying jobs off shore to China.
As soon as the American Manufacturing Industry Creates good Paying Jobs for the American Workers the big International Companies just moves them straight off shore to China.
That’s the very reason why NAFTA and the WTO was originally formed so all of the big International Companies could manufacture Products in China for $2/day slave labor and then bring the products back to America to the largest product purchasing market in the world and sell them for top dollar.
But, here is the problem with “CFR PARTY Ponzi Scheme”. Here is exactly why I call it a “Ponzi scheme”.
It will work well for a certain period of time, then at some point in time. Then just like every other Ponzi Scheme there will come a point you run out of buyers or people to fund the scheme.
If “CFR PARTY” plan continue to insist that all of the Industrial Companies all over the world continue to down size and move all of the high paying jobs off shore to $2/day slave labor in China.
Then at some point in time you eliminate all the people who can afford to buy the products being produced.
All of the workers that once had good high paying jobs will be laid-off or working at McDonald’s or Wal-Mart for minimum wage. Then all of the workers in China will not be able to afford to purchase the very products they are making.
Please tell me who in the hell will have enough money to purchase anything.
I think that is exactly where we are right now. Things should just keep grinding deeper and deeper until we fall into the Abyss.
If the American Government does not wake up and give up this Insane Global International Trade Police of NAFTA and WTO. America will continue falling until America is TOTALLY DESTROYED.
Here is why I say that.
I keep saying this and I am sure very few people understand exactly what I am saying because if they did they would be angry as HELL with the Federal Government almost to the point of CIVIL WAR.
I will say it one more time.
If American would pull out of NAFTA and the WTO now. America would start creating well over 15 million Jobs almost over night, America would have so many good Paying JOBS that the America Workers could not fill all of them.
I will Post another article and if you can do fifth grade Arithmetic then you should be able to understand it.
The only thing I ask of you is to stop believing everything that is being said by all of these HARVARD BEAN COUNTERS and do the math on the International Trade Numbers yourself.
Posted by: Harry Dingey | September 25, 2009, 10:29 pm 10:29 pm
He was the only one to stand against the lies that came out of that cabinet I solute him He is wright there not about preventing wars there all about making them’ the consequences of war is more war. here is clear evidence of the truth and the poison Americans are taking’ Text: Speech at UN by Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi
Kashmir Watch Monitoring
September 23, 2009
Text of the speech at UN by Colonel Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi
Leader of the Revolution, President of the African Union:
In the name of God.
Ladies and gentlemen, members of the General Assembly of the United Nations:
I greet you on behalf of the African Union, and I pray that this will be a historic convene in the life of the world.
On behalf of the General Assembly of the United Nations, chaired by Libya, on behalf of the African Union, on behalf of the Kingdom A traditional African, and for you all .. I congratulate our son the president, “Obama,” because for the first time to attend our General Meeting as President of the United States, and commend him because he is the host country.
We must not sell the world of vaccines that address diseases and epidemics such as bird flu pigs and perhaps in the future as long as the fish factories intelligence work, but must give it for free.
But if they were sold a high price, this means it is a trade where the virus are produced and published in the world to companies Alrosmalesp is obtained funds from the sale of medicines.
Declared that medicine and vaccines free of charge as the Bible says Green, and then it will not spread viruses even if they were true and is not engineered for the manufacture of vaccines, including corporate capital gain.
Radical solutions would earthquake architecture of the United Nations dilapidated structure and build on its ruins a new internationalist structure, based on equality between the United large and small, and free from veto and permanent seats and the other temporary, and rehabilitation of the General Assembly, the Congress of the world.
His leader’s speech, which drew the solutions put forward by the applause from the members of the General Assembly, that Libya, under the chairmanship of the General Assembly is right, will help the world is painful and miserable intimidated and threatened and feared, who wander about at this stage now, to move to world stage humane in which peace and tolerance.
I am a signatory to the Ottawa Convention, which prohibits making and transfer of mines and selling them to reconsider the cancellation and not to amend because the mine is not a means to attack, but a means of defense.
What is needed is the abolition of atomic bombs and cruise missiles to the border because they are the means of attack.
Do not disagree at all with his speech “Obama” before me, is entirely different speech from speech that any American president we ever had, the previous American presidents have been terrorizing the world and they stand on this podium, and that they will lead the world and threatened of differences.
Speech, which he said “Obama” is totally different, it calls for the disposal of nuclear disarmament seriously and this is something we applaud him, and says that America can not solve the problems of the world, but that the world must solve its problems.
Raise Obama’s slogan of change, but I take it Obama is a flash in the dark period of four years or eight years, and then I am afraid to return to their old habits Halima, who can guarantee America after Obama? .
African happy and proud that a son of Africa ruled the United States of America, this historic event after it was black in one day does not enter the cafe and restaurant in which the whites or riding the bus in which the eggs.
Now the voice of the American people unprecedented enthusiasm for Obama young black Kenyan African to be president of the United States, and this is great we Ntfajr him and consider that it could be beginning to change.
Kashmir should be an independent state .. Is neither Indian nor Pakistani, but a buffer between India and Pakistan, and end this conflict.
The Arabs have no enmity with the Jews, their cousins, and they live with them in peace.
It is you who hate the Jews and the Commissioner, the Holocaust and their Oqemtem Ohrqtamohm and the Holocaust, genocide gas ovens in Europe.
And the Arabs who have sheltered and protected Jews in the Roman days and expulsion from Andalusia and the days of Hitler’s ovens and poison gas.
You Trdtamohm and asked them to go to fight the Arabs.
The Jews will need one day for the Arabs, but the Arabs will not Ihamohm protected them in the future as in the past.
About 1/3 in he gets cut off after saying Food Crises, can you tell us what he say? Please??!!!
This summit convened in a series of challenges that face us all, and that the world should unite and join hands to serious efforts to defeat these challenges, which are their common enemy:
“The challenges of change, and the financial crisis Owalinhiar capitalist economic crisis and food and water, desertification, terrorism, migration and the spread of diseases from human and synthetic non-synthetic, because some devices manufactured by viruses as a weapon of war, and lost control.
May be a bird “nose goat pigs”, are among the viruses that have not been under control, a synthetic in the laboratory as a weapon of war.
As well as the terrible nuclear proliferation, as well as other terrorism, the proliferation of hypocrisy and fear and disbelief, and the degradation of morality and the rule of the article.
All of this is a common enemy of us all.
We deal with piracy wrong, and we deal with terrorism, wrong, and we deal with diseases error.
With regard to Darfur, I hope to become the global aid organizations talking about the development projects, industrial and pastoral and agricultural.
And now Darfur live in peace and not the war, and you who Kbertmoha to interfere .. You to be a foothold, and for oil, and Tdhon the people of Darfur.
Two-state solution for the issue of Palestine, a solution is impractical and impossible, I should not talk to him again.
The solution is one democratic state for Jews and Muslims and Palestinians, Christians and others, such as Lebanon, now there is no two adjacent but are overlapped completely overlap, and can not partition it inevitably failed.
Before the General Assembly vote on the relocation of the headquarters of the United Nations or not the central globe, where candidate Sirte, Vienna, or east of the capital of India in Delhi or Beijing, China.
to address the phenomenon of piracy, which may spread in all seas, the world must respect the economic Somali region-specific international maritime law, the “200″ nautical miles.
We must open the door of the General Assembly to investigate massacres “Sabra and Shatila” and “Gaza 2008.”
We must open the General Assembly opened an inquiry into the assassination of “Lumumba” and “Auditorium” and “Kennedy”, and “Luther King”, and Kamal Nasser, Kamal Adwan, Abu Yusuf in the process of “Verdun” in Lebanon, and “Maurice Bishop” in the invasion of Grenada, and “Khalil al-Wazir.”
We must verify the General Assembly in the genocide of the major invasion of Iraq, and in the execution of prisoners of war in Iraq during the invasion, and in the crimes of Abu Ghraib, a shameful affront to humanity
General Assembly, led by “Triki” We must open the investigation in the Korean War and wars of Suez, Vietnam, Yugoslavia and the invasion of Panama and Grenada and the bombing of Somalia and the invasion of Iraq and the war in Afghanistan as of now .. Of this letter and the presence of forty, “Ali Triki,” the association, cross-examined in the General Assembly energy chief ElBaradei and the IAEA before, I searched on whether the stock of atomic states of the IAEA? Does watching this stock increase and reduction? .
If he said it under him, then we also have a bow.
If he can not close to the major powers at which the atomic bombs, is not subject to him and it does not have the Sultan, if we also do not come near us do not recognize them, and lock the door in her face.
International Atomic Energy Agency an important institution in the United Nations, we’ve found are on us we just are not subject to large States. If the international, are subject to all the countries of the world, but if we were not international lock the door in her face and recognize them
We reject a multi-polar world, and we want a world where all nations are equally large and small
The Leader of the Revolution, President of the African Union: Africa is entitled to compensation of $ (777) trillion countries colonized
General Assembly is on the compensation for countries that were colonized even Aitakerr colonization, and repeated migration of these peoples to countries that were looted wealth
Africa United Nations reform Oobdonh, deserves a permanent seat on the Security Council benefit from the past, like China
The war against us since the establishment of the Security Council in violation of the Charter
The Security Council since it was created in 45 and so far, did not provide us security, but fear of sanctions, and is used against us now, so we are not obliged to obey the Security Council in its current lineup, but nobody can force us to stay, as of this discourse in SESSION (64 )
it must be permanent seats and veto power to those who have power, it is Gore and terrorism can not be that we live in anymore
The young black Kenyan African does not have my support. He is only a puppet and the world knows it.
Preamble says that the nations are equal, large and small.
Is permanent seats, we are equal in it? Ever, we are not equal.
The preamble says that the United Nations large and small, have equal rights.
Ok .. Is the right of veto where we are equal?!.
The preamble says, “Nations large and small, are equal in rights” .. Such a preamble, and this is that we have approved.
Then veto the Charter, the permanent seats against the Charter, and this we do not recognize and does not accept it.
Charter says in the preamble “We have committed not to use armed force in the common interest” .. This is the preamble, which we are happy we are, and we signed it, and joined the United Nations building it, which says that armed force is used only in the common interest of all nations.
But there have been 65 after the war by the United Nations and the Security Council after the Bkevith present and after this pledge, the lives of millions more than the World War.
Are these wars that took place and the aggression that took place and the power used in the 65 war, is for the common interest?! Never .. Are of interest to a particular country or two or three countries – and will come out of these wars to see whether it is for the interest of the joint or for the benefit of a particular State -.
This is in stark contrast with the preamble of the Charter, which we we like it and we joined this organization.
And if he does not walk according to the preamble, which we agreed upon, even our presence in the organization does not walk as of now.
We do not appease, not to say words diplomatically, and we are not afraid, and we are not greedy, we can not appease the fate of the world.
We are now talking about the fate of the world, the fate of the planet, the fate of the human race .. In this issue of vital importance to human courtesy and there is no hypocrisy in diplomacy, because complacency and hypocrisy and fear has led to the occurrence of 65 after the war by the United Nations.
The preamble says, “If the use of force must be a UN force, joint force” .. United Nations Military Staff Authority is using force, and not a state or two or three .. The entire United Nations decide to use force so as to protect world peace.
If an aggression by one State against another after 1945 after the establishment of this Organization, the United Nations are combined to deter this aggression.
I mean if attacked Libya to France – for example – should the United Nations to deter aggression against Libya because France has an independent state and member of the General Assembly of the United Nations, and sovereign.
We are committed to defend the sovereignty of nations collectively, but there are 65 war of aggression without deterring the United Nations, and has them – eight major wars raging in the millions of victims – the nations with permanent seat in the Security Council and owner of the veto.
States that we assure them, and we believe it is that will protect the security and protect the independence of peoples, which threatened the independence of peoples and used brute force.
We believe that it is deter aggression and protect the people and trust in the broadcast world, but we find these nations are using brute force, which has a permanent seat on the Security Council, and endowed with the given itself the right of veto.
This is the thing that we agreed upon, but the advent of power then it is not mentioned in the Charter.
Had they told us that the veto is what we joined the United Nations, we have acceded to and that we are equal in rights.
But that appears after that state then the right to object to all our decisions and then a permanent seat, it is given a permanent seat!? .
These four countries gave themselves the permanent seat.
And the only state that voted in the Assembly for its permanent seat, is China, China gave her our voices in order to have a permanent seat on the Security Council.
This state only its presence and existence of democratic, while the other four seats to its presence is not democratic but dictatorial imposed on us, do not recognize it does not apply to us.
and not in the present Charter shall authorize the United Nations to intervene in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any State.
Means that the system of government is an internal affair of a State, no one is entitled to interfere in it, your system is working, the dictatorial or democratic or socialist or capitalist or reactionary or progressive, this is the responsibility of society itself .. An internal matter.
Voted in Rome in one day for “Julius Caesar” to be a dictator as the Senate gave him a mandate to be a dictator, because they believe that a dictatorship at the time useful to Rome .. This is an internal, from Rome to say to what worked, “Julius Caesar, a dictator”?!
Nice deed dude, i am right now translation it into spanish, based both on your translation and the geek who does it live in the videos i’ll try to do my best, anyway, canyou let me know whenever you have more of the entire speech or any addendums or ammendments?
Thanks and keep on working for freedom of expression, hijacked by certain groups of economic groups, disguised as national interests, by disguises of banks, corporations and joint ventures who covers up a few family names who are the ones who had stolen our rights..
Thanks again and, as Gervasio Artigas said “with truth neither i offend, nor fear anything”
Posted by: richardsievert | September 27, 2009, 10:19 am 10:19 am