The U.S. decision in 2006 to send Ethiopian troops into Somalia was one of the stupidest moves in a very stupid decade. Last week, some of the chickens spawned by that decision came home to roost. - JAPAN TIMES
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George Packer goes on to explain why it isn’t entirely ignoble. Read it all. I’ll just remark on why it is partly ignoble: because even as President Obama spoke, some Marines were preparing to return to Iraq, having been recalled there, despite the fact that their tours were supposed to be over. - THE ATLANTIC
Add comment September 1st, 2010
Il a fait de son mieux, c’est sûr. Il s’applique. Barack Obama est un studieux. Ce n’est donc pas surtout un « peut mieux faire » mais un « rien n’y fait » et un « rien à faire » qu’il faut écrire sur sa copie -son discours du bureau ovale de fin d’engagement militaire en Irak. Qui avait raison, qui avait tort ? Pour tout auditeur ou lecteur du texte, la réponse est nette : W. !
Nous avons persévéré car nous partageons avec le peuple irakien une croyance : celle qu’un nouveau début peut sortir des ruines de la guerre dans ce berceau de la civilisation. Dans ce chapitre remarquable de l’histoire des Etats-Unis et de l’Irak, nous avons assumé nos responsabilités. Il est désormais temps de tourner la page. » - RUE89
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Bien sûr, on pourrait être tenté, en Europe, de se réjouir de la révision à la baisse des chiffres du PIB américain, publiés vendredi 27 août. Au deuxième trimestre, la croissance dans la zone euro a été nettement supérieure à celle des Etats-Unis : 4 %, contre 1,6 % en rythme annuel. Il y avait bien longtemps que le Vieux Continent n’avait à ce point distancé le Nouveau - LE MONDE
Add comment August 28th, 2010
With a state budget nearly two months overdue and California facing the prospect that it could run out of cash within weeks, the Sept. 9 trip would come at a politically awkward time for the governor. Thousands of vendors who do business with the state are not getting paid. And the checks to health clinics that care for the poor are on hold until a budget is signed. Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders have been locked in a stalemate all summer, with no indication a budget deal is within sight. - LA TIMES
Add comment August 27th, 2010
The first of Boeing’s long-awaited 787 “Dreamliner” aircraft will not be delivered until early next year, the U.S. manufacturer confirmed Friday, adding to a string of delays that has dogged the project and set back the introduction of the 300-seat jet by more than two years. - NY TIMES
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Add comment August 27th, 2010
Homeownership has let us down. For generations, Americans believed that owning a home was an axiomatic good. Homeownership could even, in the words of George H.W. Bush’s Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Jack Kemp, “save babies, save children, save families and save America.” A house with a front lawn and a picket fence wasn’t just a nice place to live or a risk-free investment; it was a way to transform a nation. But the dark side of homeownership is now all too apparent: foreclosures and walkaways, neighborhoods plagued by abandoned properties and plummeting home values, a nation in which families have $6 trillion less in housing wealth than they did just three years ago. - TIME
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The CIA is making secret payments to multiple members of President Hamid Karzai’s administration, in part to maintain sources of information in a government in which the Afghan leader is often seen as having a limited grasp of developments, according to current and former U.S. officials. - WASHINGTON POST
Add comment August 27th, 2010
On May 1, 2003, US President George W. Bush announced the end of combat operations in Iraq. This month, President Barack Obama will end the fight for a second time. But who won? Certainly not the Iraqis. - SPIEGEL ONLINE
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Le nombre de soldats américains déployés en Irak est désormais inférieur à 50.000, l’objectif avancé en vue de la fin des opérations de combat prévue le 31 août, annonce mardi l’armée américaine. - REUTERS
Add comment August 24th, 2010
While America’s super-rich congratulate themselves on donating billions to charity, the rest of the country is worse off than ever. Long-term unemployment is rising and millions of Americans are struggling to survive. The gap between rich and poor is wider than ever and the middle class is disappearing. - SPIEGEL ONLINE
Add comment August 23rd, 2010
Commander says camp will take months to shut – and he’s still waiting for the order - While politicians on Capitol Hill worry about how to put the Guantanamo genie back in the bottle, Admiral Harbeson said his focus is the detainees, the majority of whom have been held for eight years without charge or trial. - THE INDEPENDENT
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