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THE TRUMPET WEEKLYTHE TRUMPET WEEKLYO C T O B E R 1 8 , 2 0 1 3

How Afghanistan changed the German military 5

China desires new world order 7

No Ibrahim Prize for African leaders 8

The sun is setting on dollar supremacy 9

Blame bad parents for Britains ills 10

BY BRAD MACDONALD

T was . Napoleon Bonaparte, Europes

emperor and the most eared man on the Continent,had just suffered deeat in Russia. Having retreated

to Dresden to lick his wounds and plot uture action,Bonaparte agreed to a meeting with Prince Klemens vonMetternich, Austrias chancellor and architect o a develop-ing alliance o European powers.

Te exchange was tense. oward the end Bonaparte wasso rustrated, gesticulating so uriously, he accidentallydropped his hat. But it was no accident. Wily Bonapartewas measuring Metternichs subservience. A earul sub-

ject would bow and pick up the hat. Instead, Metternichignored the hat and carried on as i he hadnt even noticed.

Napoleon, he later wrote, seemed to me small. Met-ternichs action was more powerul than , words.

His message, to Napoleon and Europe, resonated: Europe

would no longer bow beore Bonaparte.In the high-stakes world o geopolitics, small gestures

matter greatly.At the Postdam Conerence in , Churchill, Roosevelt

and Stalin couldnt agree on who should enter the maindoor into the meeting room first. Afer much debate, theyfinally settled on an agreeable plan: Te leaders would enterthe room at precisely the same time using three separatedoors. It sounds childish and silly. Butfar morewas at stakethan the vanity o these men.

Each leader represented the power and place o a great na-tionBritain, America and the , respectively. On such

an important and public occasion, the leader who enteredthe room first would be perceived as

President Obama and the Phone CallThat Endangered America

see ENDANGER page 12

President Barack Obama and Chinese Premiere Li Keqiang

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks

with Iranian President Hasan Rouhani

on the phone on September 27.

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OCTOBER 18, 20132THE TRUMPET WEEKLY

MIDDLE EAST

Netanyahu: WesternSell-Out on IranTELEGRAPH | October 15

T I Prime Minister Ben-jamin Netanyahus warning todaythat the world risks making a historic

mistake i it backs away rom con-ronting Iran over its nuclear programneeds to be taken seriously.

As the Wests pathetic handling othe recent Syrian crisis has graphi-cally demonstrated, so long as thenon-conrontational President BarackObama remains in power at the WhiteHouse, there is absolutely no prospecto the U.S. and its allies holding theirenemies to account or gross viola-tions o international law.

And with this new spirit o ap-

peasement taking root in many othe worlds other major capitals,Mr. Netanyahu has every reason toear that Western negotiators arepreparing to do a deal with Iran,even i the Islamic republic showsnot the slightest intention o givingup its stockpiles o enriched ura-niumwhich the worlds leadingintelligence agencies are convinced isbeing acquired or the developmento nuclear weapons.

The Middle EastPendulumRoger Cohen, NEW YORK TIMES |October 14

T M Eastern strongmen areback. Te counterrevolutionis in ullswing. Islamists and secular liberalsdo battle. Te Shiite and Sunni worldsconront each other. A two-stateIsraeli-Palestinian peace looks impos-sible. Freedom is equated with chaos.For this region there is no uture, onlyendless rehearsals o the past.

[S]tymied by Islams battle withmodernity, inebriated by oil, blockedby the absence o institutions that canmediate the ury o tribe and ethnicity,Middle Eastern states turn in circles.Syria is now the regional emblem, a

vacuum in which only the violentnihilism o the jihadi thrives.

Just years afer the Arab Spring,talk o the utureany utureseemspreposterous. Syrias Bashar Assadhas gassed his own people. Iraqis again enguled in Sunni-Shiite

violence. Te U.S.-trained EgyptianArmy has slaughtered members othe Muslim Brotherhood. It is hardto recall the heady season o when despots ell and Arabs spoke

T -Israeli relationshipbecame so poisonous

early last year that the urkish government o PrimeMinister Recep ayyip Erdoan is said to have disclosed toIranian intelligence the identities o up to Iranians whohad been meeting inside urkey with their Mossad caseofficers.

Knowledgeable sources describe the urkish action asa significant loss o intelligence and an effort to slap theIsraelis.

Israeli anger at the deliberate compromise o its agentsmay help explain why Prime Minister Benjamin Netan-yahu became so entrenched in his reusal to apologize toErdoan about the May Gaza flotil la incident.

Netanyahu finally apologized to Erdoan by phone in

March afer President Obama negotiated a compromiseormula.

op Israeli officials believe that, despite the apology, the

severe strain with Erdoan continues. Tough U.S. officials regarded exposure o the Israeli

network as an unortunate intelligence loss, they didntprotest directly to urkish officials. Instead, urkish-Amer-ican relations continued warming last year to the point thatErdoan was among Obamas key confidants.

Te Netanyahu-Erdoan quarrel, with its overlay ointelligence thrust and parry, is an example o the kaleido-scopic changes that may be ahead in the Middle East. TeUnited States, Israel, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Egypt are allexploring new alliances and struggling to find a new equi-libriumovertly and covertly.

Turkey Blows Israels Cover for Iranian Spy RingWASHINGTON POST | October 16

with passion o reedom and personalempowerment. Te Arab securitystate has shown its resilience; it breedsextremism. As the political theoristBenjamin Barber has noted, Funda-mentalism is religion under siege.

Tere is another uture or the Mid-dle East, one glimpsed during the Arab

Spring, but first it must be draggedrom the insistent clutches o the past.

Egypt-U.S. Relationsin TurmoilREUTERS | October 16

R the UnitedStates and Egypt are now in

Related: The Israel-Turkey Alliance Is a Trap

Psalm 83 reveals that when Europe

comes against the king of the south,

the Middle East wi ll be divided into

two power blocsthose nat ions

that back Iran and those that oppose

Iranian dominance. This prophetic

passage actually tells us which Middle

Eastern nations will join the radical

Islamic camp and which ones will side

with Germany.

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turmoil and the entire Middle Eastcould suffer, the Egyptian oreignminister said in remarks made a weekafer Washington moved to curtailmilitary aid to Cairo.

Nabil Fahmy told state-runAl-Ah-ramnewspaper that Egypt had beendependent on U.S. aid or too long butWashington was wrong to assume theCairo government would always ol-low its line.

U.S. officials said the aid cut reflected

Washingtons unhappiness with Egyptspath since the army overthrew reelyelected President Mohamed Morsi othe Muslim Brotherhood on July .

Egypt has already criticized thedecision and suggested it could turnto other countriesor military aid,possibly Russia.

Egypt has long been the second-largest recipient o U.S. aid afer Israel,and its militarythe largest in theArab worldhas worked closely withWashington or decades.

Te United States now aces a policydilemmahow to promote democracywhile not alienating an Arab ally whichhas a peace treaty with Israel and con-trols the strategic Suez Canal.

TW I N B R I E F

n Is Iran about to lose its proxyHamas?Tis past week, urkish Prime Min-ister Recep ayyip Erdoan hosted

I G this week, an Iranian delegation has been hold-ing talks with six other nations about its countrys nuclearprogram. Tese negotiationsthe first to take place underthe auspices o Irans new president, Hasan Rouhaniin-spired little bursts o positive rhetoric.

Afer years o no progress with Iran, why the suddengood cheer? Its certainly not because Rouhani representsa radical new strand o Iranian thinkingabout nuclearpower. Afer all, he was Irans nuclear negotiator rom to . Parts o the nuclear program were temporarilysuspended during that time, but it was never eliminated.

Iran has returned to negotiations or only one reason:Te new president wants economic sanctions lifed becausethey have taken a powerul toll on the Iranian economy.

Nor does Rouhanis new cabinet mark a proound breakrom those who have run the Islamic Republic since its

inception. As his justice minister, Rouhani has appointedMostaa Pourmohammadi, a ormer high official in theMinistry o Inormation in the bloody and violent s.Among other things, Pourmohammadi was one o thoseprimarily responsible or the mass execution o thousands

o political prisoners in . He moved on to the minis-trys oreign intelligence operations in the s, when its

achievements included the bombing o a Jewish com-munity center in Buenos Aires and the assassination odissidents in Iran and around the world.

As long as men like Pourmohammadi are still runningIrans courts and prisons, as long as the Iranian judicialsystem is subverted by a politicized version o sharia, therewill always be a limit to what can be achieved through anyconversations with ehran. alking is fine. But the negotia-tors in Geneva should leave any optimism at the door.

The Iran We KnowSLATE | October 16

Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal inAnkara or a three-hour meeting, thethird between the two within thepast year. Te two men most likelydiscussed the financial strain Hamasnow eels afer Egypts recent changein policy toward the enclave o theGaza Strip. Tis radical new policytoward Gaza has worked to stop allsmuggling trade and, with it, Hamasscash flow. Having effectively cut offboth legal and illegal trade into Gaza,

Egypt has shown it will no longertolerate Hamas having its way in theregion. Hamas has quickly ounditsel desperate or cash. Its traditionalsponsor, Iran, is in no position to im-mediately help because o its own fi-nancial woes. Could it be that Hamashas now chosen to seek lie-sustainingcash flow rom one o its moderateriends, urkey? I Hamas is turningto urkey or help, is Iran about tolose control o its proxy in Gaza? Teseismic shif in Hamass allegiance

away rom Iran is part o a mysteri-ous prophecy recorded in Psalm ,which divides the Arab world intotwo opposing actions. On one sideare the Arican nations flanking thewestern side o the Red Sea and south-ern Mediterranean, including Libya,Egypt, Ethiopia and Eritrea, all owhich will be dominated by Iran. Onthe other side are the more moderateArab states, including urkey andSaudi Arabia, among others, which

will ally themselves with a German-led Europe. For years the rumpethaswatched or the seemingly impossibleshif o Hamass loyalties rom Iran/Egypt to the Saudi/urkey alliance.Te events o the past ew months in-dicate that switch could be at the door.Te situation certainly bears vigilance.

n Why the U.S. is losing SaudiArabiaFor the first time in UN history, Saudi

Arabia has passed up an opportunityto address the world at a UN GeneralAssembly meeting. Yet without speak-ing a word, Saudi Arabia sent a clearmessageto the United States. SaudiArabia is constantly being aggravatedby what it sees as oolish and ineptoreign-policy decisions rom Ameri-cans. Te Saudis share Israels viewthat the U.S. is tipping the balance opower in avor o Iran and its prox-ies, while abandoning Washingtonslong-standing allies in the region.

Te deluge o all iance-damagingoreign policy is taking its toll in theMiddle East. Instead o strengthen-ing ties with old riends, the U.S. issubordinating their interests in hopeo attaining better relations withother powers. Tese mistakes arequickly detaching the U.S. rom itsallies. rumpeteditor in chie GeraldFlurrywarned in , [D]ont orgetthat the Middle East crisis involvesyoumuch more than you can even
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EUROPE

G giant is waging a campaign o in-ternal warare against one o its own firmsSwedensflagship submarine manuacturer Kockumsputting keydeense deals at risk, sources have told Te Local.

German industrial conglomerate TyssenKruppbought Kockums in to orm part o what is knownas TyssenKrupp Marine Systems (), a firm whichalso owns German submarine maker , a direct com-

petitor o Kockums.A source told Te Local that the purchase was aimed at

getting rid o Germanys Swedish submarine rival and that was jeopardizing Swedish export deals .

Kockums and its predecessors have been building shipsor the Swedish navy or centuries . But according to aGerman naval manuacturing consultant with ties to ,TyssenKrupp is actively trying to sabotage Kockums exportoperations to the advantage o Germanys , a strategy hedubbed ber alles and slammed as suicide.

Earlier this year, the German firm decreed that the

Swedish shipbuilder officially change its corporate nameto TyssenKrupp Marine Systems, scrapping the Kock-ums brand name that has been a part o Swedish industrysince the early s.

Te Swedish government, as well as officials with theprimary deense procurement agency, the Deense Mate-riel Administration, has been made aware o the situationand have become so unhappy they have asked Swedish

deense contractor Saab to look into a possible purchase oKockums .

Discussions are taking place right now, according tothe source, who agreed that is trying to strangleSwedens ship-building industry. Te only reason owns Kockums is to stop them rom exporting, theSwedish source explained, adding that the Swedish firm

could not exist without export contracts. Submarine building capabilities are essential or our

armed orces and our ability to deend ourselves, he toldTe Local .

Germans Look to Sink Swedish Sub MakerTHE LOCAL | October 15

imagine! We can see that our oil sup-pliers have a lot o hatred or Israeland the U.S., and it is intensiying

very rapidly. Middle Eastern rela-tions should captivate your attentionbecause a specific alliance will ormin the Middle East that is prophesiedin your Bibleand the immediate

results o it will be terrible world ca-lamity. Tis alliance, ound in Psalm, will be bent on the destruction othe leaders o the democratic world:the U.S., Britain and Israel.

n Israel gives gas field toPalestiniansIsrael will soon transer sovereigntyo the Gaza Marine gas field to thePalestinian Authority, according to afilereport published Saturday.Te field was discovered just opposite

the Gaza Strip in . It is estimat-ed to contain trillion cubic eet ogasenough to supply all uel needsor the Gaza Strip and or all thepower acilities slated to be built inthe West Bank. Israel also has agreedto exclude the gas field rom the

region cut off by its Gaza Strip navalblockade. Israels decision to give thefield to the PA shows that the Jewishnation is bending over backwardsin trying to placate the Palestinians.But ceding territory to its enemieshas never succeeded beore. Instead,such moves are typically perceived

as indications o weakness and onlyserve to intensiy anti-Israel senti-ments among Arabs.

n Netanyahu pleads with Europefor helpStop it now while you are in a strongposition to do so. Tose were thewords issued by Israeli Prime Minis-ter Benjamin Netanyahu in a serieso interviews with European newsstations on October . Israel is call-ing on Europe to do moreto stop

the Iranians obtaining the nuclearbomb. Mr. Netanyahu was quick toexplain the stark realities that wouldcome rom Iran having the bomb. I[the Iranian regime] is not stoppedimmediately, there wont be justtwo bombs pointed toward you [the

Europeans], but . Netanyahusplea to Europe is the latest example oIsraels stepped-up ocus on convinc-ing European nations to intervene.On March , Israeli President Shi-mon Peres stood beore the EuropeanParliament and begged or moreEuropean involvement in the region.

It was the first time an Israeli leaderhas addressed the body in almost years. President Peres ocused on twospecific issues: the importance o theEuropean Union branding Hezbollahas a terrorist organization, and takingaction against Irans nuclear ambi-tions. During Netanyahus interviews,the Israeli prime minister told Europeto be strict, be strong, be consistent.O course, this is exactly how Bibleprophecy says Europe will act! TeEuropean mindset has been evident

over the course o history. As rumpeteditor in chie Gerald Flurry wrote,

Germany has been at the heart oseveral resurrections o the HolyRoman Empire spanning more than, years. It thinks in terms o theReich,which means empire.
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o the eurozone came about in early, when the debt crisis was at itspeak and there were legitimate earsthat Greece could be orced out othe currency union, or that the wholeEuropean project could disintegrate.

With the global economic debatedominated by the United States and,

increasingly, China, the EuropeanUnion risks losing its influence unlessit can speak with one voice.

Herman van Rompuy, the presi-dent o the European Council, whichbrings together the EUs memberstates, was asked by leaders to drafa report detailing what was requiredto strengthen the single currency andoverhaul the monetary union.

Te ocus was on our buildingblocks that would complete monetaryunion: a banking union to strength-

en the banking sector, a fiscal unionto improve coordination o budget-related policy, an economic unionto urther integration and finally a

political union to make the projectmore democratic.

Van Rompuy presented a prelimi-nary report, grandly titled owardsa Genuine Economic and MonetaryUnion, to European leaders in Juneand they gave him the go-ahead todevelop the ideas urther, which took

up much o the rest o . Fast-orward to the present day andthe is sti ll holding the ort. Itsas-yet unused bond-buying planhas deterred speculative attacks on thecurrency bloc, but the vision o a moreintegrated eurozone is almost entirelyunulfilled.

While the relative recent calm inmarketswith eurozone bond yieldslower and the euro stablehas re-moved a lot o the pressure on govern-ments to push ahead, the long-term

goals have not been orgotten by [President Mario] Draghi.

In a speech to students at Harvardlast week, he talked about Europespursuit o a more perect union, andemphasized how the political willo Europes leaders had helped holdthe eurozone together, against theexpectations o some U.S. hedge unds,which bet the region would shatterand lose money.

Tey had underestimated the

depth o Europeanscommitment to the euro,Draghi said, adding that apragmatic ocus on policyefficacy should be thedriving orce or urtherintegration.

In that respect,

Draghis views marryclosely with Van Rom-puys. Te relationshipbetween the two, orged inthe months afer Draghi took over the in November , is deep. Bothhave an iron grasp o economics andunderstood instinctively what wasneeded to reassure financial marketsabout the euros uture.

You have to remember, they areboth Jesuits by education, an adviserto Van Rompuy said.

Among the principles Jesuitsadvocate is a pragmatic approach toproblem-solving and a willingness tolearn rom experience. One o VanRompuys avorite phrases is JohnMaynard Keyness dictum: When theacts change, I change my mind. Whatdo you do?

Te question then will be: Are theyjust going to tinker around with thetreaty, or are we going to get a trulymeaningul change to it that will

allow or the realization o the ourpresidents report? asked PimcosBosomworth.

History shows no other monetaryunion o that genre endured, theyeither ell apart or evolved into a po-litical and fiscal union, he said.

TW I N B R I E F

n EU tightens its grip on theMediterraneanTe European Parliament approved

a new big brother surveillanceprogram or the Mediterranean Sea onOctober afer an overcrowded boatull o migrants sank off the Italianisland o Lampedusa, killing . Tenew program, , is marketedas the solution to the tragedy. In real-ity, it is nothing o the sort. SpiegelOnline called the program preciselythe kind o monitoring apparatusAmericas intelligence servicemight dream up. Te program

establishes drones and satellites tokeep a vigilant watch on the Mediter-ranean, aided by offshore sensors andother intelligence equipment. It alsoincludes a system or the EU to sharethis inormation. Another program,thinly disguised as an anti-immigra-tion effort, is Libya. Scheduledto be ully operational by December , is a group whose stated aim is

to help Libya manage its border andtrain its customs officials. While it willhelp prevent would-be emigrants romleaving Libya illegally, its real purpose,as EU Observer writes, is that thenew HQ in ripoli will become an EUintelligence asset. gives theEU a oot in the door in Libya, an op-portunity to influence the government,and a base it can use to keep an eye onthe terrorist groups moving in to fillthe power vacuum. Europe is taking

offensive measures against the spreado Islamic terrorism in Arica throughits military deployment in Mali andnow in the Central Arican Republic. is a deensive counterpart tothese efforts. Europe has obviously be-come more aggressive and assertive inNorth Arica and the Near East, areasit considers part o its sphere o influ-ence. Watch or this trend to continueas Europe prepares to conront radicalIslam and Iran without American help.

n Pope invited to EU ParliamentEU Parliament President Martin

Schultz invited Pope Francis to visitthe European Parliament during ameeting with the pope on October .According to the Vatican InsidersGiacomo Galeazzi, the pope wouldntbe satisfied with merely visiting theparliament and having a ew photoswith politicians. Bergoglio is noan o blown up media campaignsunless he can see concrete results,

MATTHEW MIRABELLI/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

Migrants arrive at Hay Wharf in Valletta

aboard a patrol boat on October 12,

the day after their boat sank.

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Related: Russias Dark Rider

so a papal visit to Strasbourg wouldmean a crammed schedule with lotso topics to discuss, he writes. I thepope visits parliament, he wants his

visit to make a difference. Anotherintriguing part o the v isit was thegif Schultz presented to the popeabook o Sunday prayers, and a book

on Aachen Cathedral. Tis Cathedralis where Charlemagne is buriedEu-ropes violent medieval ruler whosought to unite Europe using theCatholic Church. Despite his bloodyhistory, European politicians ofenlook to Charlemagne as an inspira-tioneven naming a prize afer him.

Schultz was born near Aachen andis apparently a lover o its history.In Charlemagnes day, the CatholicChurch had great influence over theaffairs o statein much the sameway the pope appears to want. Watchor the Catholic Church to grow ininfluence in the EU.

Russias MilitarySpending BoomLIGNET | October 16

R in the midst o its biggestrearmament drive in a generation,with a recently released deense budgetshowing spending on nuclear weaponsincreasing by percent and spendingon conventional weapons increas-ing by percent over the next threeyears. With the U.S. military acingcuts and members indifferentto the need to modernize, Russiasresurgence as a military power shouldworry the West.

Russias sharp increase in deensespending contrasts sharply with cuts

in U.S. deense spending that havealready affected U.S. military readi-ness and will soon require cuts intothe muscle o U.S. military capabili-ties, such as by reducing the numbero aircraf carriers. Te U.S. interestis to recognize that the geopoliticalcircumstances that allowed the UnitedStates and its allies to reducedeense spending in the post-ColdWar period cannot last orever. In theinternational arena, change and newchallenges are inevitable.

On October , the Russian Dumasdeense committeeroughly equiva-lent to the U.S. Senate and HouseArmed Services Committees com-binedreleased its official budget orRussian military spending through. Te budget increases annualspending on nuclear weapons by morethan percent, according to Russianofficials and state-run news service Novosti.

otal Russian deense spending will

rise rom . billion in to .billion in , according to the report.

Given the number and scale o theseprograms, it is no exaggeration to saythat Moscow is engaged in the biggestrearmament drive in a generation.

However, the budget put orth by

the Dumas deense committee cannotaccurately reflect either the real costo Russias growing expenditures onnuclear and conventional orces or thereal size o deficits being run up tofinance increased military spending.

Russian President Vladimir Putin,a ormer agent, has been contentto keep secret Russias real militaryspending and offer to the world theDumas fictional deense budget.

Vladimir Putin campaigned or

president in on a pledge to restorethe Russian military. He is now carry-ing out that promise.

TW I N B R I E F

n China desires new world orderOver the years, the rumpethas exten-sively documented the looming implo-sion o Americas fiat currency. Nowit is being trumpeted in headlines all

over the globe afer China called ora new world order and an end to thedollars status as the worlds reservecurrency. For most short-sightedWesterners, the solution is to let Wash-ington borrow ever-greater amountsthat the people o America wont everbe able to pay back. But China saysAmerica has proven itsel unreliable.Now is perhaps a good time or thebeuddled world to start consideringbuilding a de-Americanized world,

an October editorial in Chinasstate-run Xinhua said. Such alarm-ing days when the destinies o othersare in the hands o a hypocriticalnation have to be terminated, anda new world order should be put inplace . o that end, several corner

stones should be laid to underpin ade-Americanized world. On Turs-day, despite the U.S. having resolvedits two-week debt-ceiling deadlock, aChinese ratings agency downgradedits U.S. sovereign credit rating. Watchor more moves by Chinato pushtoward a de-Americanized world.

n Beijing bares its dictatorial teethChinese police are holding a car-toonist and an influential blogger in

custody amid an intensiying clamp-down on online rumor-mongering,a lawyer or one o the individuals saidTursday. Rights groups say that sinceAugust, hundreds o Chinese nation-als have been arrested. And whilemost have been released, some are stillbeing detained on various criminalcharges. Te targeting o bloggersindicates that Chinas new govern-ment, headed by President Xi Jinping,is enlarging its suppression on dissent.Te clampdown exposes the insecurity

o Chinas leaders, said Bo Zhiyue, aproessor o Chinese politics at Singa-pores National University. Tey aretrying to send China back all the wayto the Stone Age, Bo said. Where isthe hope or political reorm? Zero.Te recent history o regimes in Russia,Germany, China and other nationsshows that a crackdown on dissentofen indicates a government bent ondictatorial rule and overturning theglobal status quo.

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Reforms Have Left theArmy in ChaosTELEGRAPH | October 16

C to restruc-ture the Army are ailing becausecuts to the deense budget are puttingoff potential new soldiers and makingBritain a hostile recruiting environ-ment, according to a leaked document.

Te memo, which is understood tohave had wide distribution within theMinistry o Deense, says that disap-pointing recruitment to the new ArmyReserve means that targets or a largerpart-time orce will not be reached.

Te recruitment crisis means theArmy aces increased risk to its

structure and operational capability,according to the document, which hasbeen seen by the elegraph.

Te coalition is cutting the ull-time Army rom , to about, soldiers. Tose cuts are sup-posed to be offset by a major expan-

sion in the part-term reserve orce,which was expected to grow romabout , to ,.

Te -page report, dated August and marked restricted, claims theArmy is currently recruiting barelyhal the number o new reservistsneeded to hit that target.

One o the problems identified is aconcern among potential recruits thattheir mental health could be compro-mised i they join.

MIA: $230 Million inSpare PartsFOREIGN POLICY | October 16

T o spare parts by theU.S. military is a big business, withmore than billion worth o screwsand widgets kept in storerooms. It isalso a notoriously sloppy one.

[]he Pentagon has successullyexported its spare parts mismanage-ment to Aghanistan. It seems that amultinational, U.S.-led military officecalled the Combined Security ransi-tion Command-Aghanistan (-)spent million rom throughthe middle o this year on spare partsor vehicles operated by the Aghan

H laws and health and saety regulationscould hamper British military operations in the field,according to experts.

Te authors o a report by think tank Policy Exchangesaid recent rulings showed a misunderstanding o how thearmed orces work and were placing impossible bureau-cratic burdens on troops.

Te Ministry o Deense (MoD) aced , claims ordamages between and , leading to million(. million) in lawyers ees, the report stated.

It also drew attention to a Supreme Court ruling earlier

this year which allowed amilies o soldiers killed in Iraqto launch claims against the ministry under human rightsand negligence legislation.

Deense Secretary Philip Hammond said recent

judgments could make it more difficult to carry outoperations.

Te study warned a oreign power could, in the uture,sponsor damage claims in order to paralyze the Britisharmed orces through legal process.

Laura Crof, a military lawyer and retired U.S. Armylieutenant, who co-wrote the report, said: [Tese rulings]are placing impossible burdens on the bureaucracy o mili-tary operations.

By setting precedents which can barely be satisfied intodays limited conflicts the courts risk paralyzing them-

selves and the military in a war o national survival.Te paperwork alone would simply overwhelm theMoD even i the findings o the eventual inquiries ascribedno blame.

European Laws Could Paralyze the ArmyTHE TELEGRAPH | October 18

ANGLO-AMERICA

AFRICA/LATIN AMERICA

No Ibrahim Prize forAfrican LeadersCNN | October 14

F second consecutive year, noleader has been deemed worthy

o the million Ibrahim Prize orAchievement in Arican Leadership.

Te oundations prize committeeannounced [October ] that it haddecided not to award the prizetheourth time there has been no winnerin its seven-year history.

Winners must be democraticallyelected leaders who have steppeddown in the past three years afer serv-ing their constitutionally mandated

term, and have demonstrated ex-cellence in office. Te committeesailure to again find a prize winner hasled some to comment that its selectioncriteria are too narrow, and should be

broadened to include those showingleadership in civil society.

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National Army. But last year, it con-

firmed that it could not account or million worth o the spare parts,according to an October report bythe Special Inspector or AghanistanReconstruction.

[]he military relied on the Aghansto keep records o its inventory. And theAghans, according to the audit, did notkeep those records up to date. Whenauditors asked, the office couldnt findany written justification or the newparts orders. Nor could the officeprovide any documentation confirming

that the Aghan Army actually receivedall the parts that were ordered.

Some o the purchases are continu-ing, apparently on autopilot, witha stream o revenues going to thecompanies that make the vehiclesand their components. And it mayget worse, since the multilateral officeintends to turn over the authority tomake spare parts purchasesundedby U.S. and allied grantsto the A-ghan Army itsel.

U.S. Congress Ends

Default ThreatREUTERS | October 17

C o political brink-manship that had unnerved globalmarkets, President Barack Obamaquickly signed the spending measure,which passed the Senate and Houseo Representatives afer Republicansdropped efforts to use the legisla-tion to orce changes in his signaturehealthcare law.

Te White House budget officetold hundreds o thousands o ederalworkers, the bulk o whom had beenidle or the past days, to be ready toreturn to work on Tursday.

Te down-to-the-wire deal, how-ever, offers only a temporary fix anddoes not resolve the undamentalissues o spending and deficits thatdivide Republicans and Democrats.It unds the government until Janu-ary and raises the debt ceiling until

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February , so Americans ace the pos-

sibility o another bitter budget fightand another government shutdownearly next year.

aking the podium in the WhiteHouse briefing room on Wednesdaynight, Obama said that with finalcongressional passage, We can beginto lif this cloud o uncertainty andunease rom our businesses and romthe American people.

Hopeully next time it wont bein the th hour. Weve got to get outo the habit o governing by crisis,

Obama said.Te standoff between Republicans

and the White House over unding thegovernment orced the temporary lay-off o hundreds o thousands o ederalworkers rom October and createdconcern that crisis-driven politics wasthe new normal in Washington.

A empiresrom the Greek, to the Roman, theSpanish and the Britishhave at their heart a domi-nant means o exchange which is very much part o theirpolitical and social hegemony. Once upon a time, it wasRoman coinage which was the worlds preeminent cur-

rency. In more recent times it was the British pound. oday,its the U.S. dollar to which international investors flock asa sae haven or their money. Highly liquid and apparentlyreliableuntil recently at leastnothing else comes evenremotely close to the greenbacks dominant position in theinternational monetary system.

Tat this positionwhat Giscard dEstaing reerred toas Americas exorbitant privilegecould so casually beput at risk by politicians on Capitol Hill is an extraordinaryspectacle that may be indicative o a great power alreadyseriously on the wane.

With the pound, the all rom grace was swif. Britainemerged rom the devastation o the First World War an

irreparably damaged economic and military power, withcrushing debts and a deeply impaired manuacturing sec-tor.

Te dollar was able quickly to usurp the pounds posi-tion. Final deeat or sterling came with Britains decisionto leave the gold standard in rom which it neverrecovered.

Yet rarely beore has international dissatisaction withthe dollars role as reserve currency to the world been as

great as it is now. Te most visible anger comes rom China,with more than trillion o dollar oreign exchangereserves, . trill ion o them held in U.S. reasuries. Forordinary Chinese, it has come as a revelation to discoverthey own so much American debt. Tat they own it in a

country which because o political brinkmanship mayactually deault has provoked understandable ury.

It is perhaps a good time or the beuddled world tostart considering building a de-Americanized world,Chinas official government news agency has said.

A steady erosion o trust which began with the financialcrisis five years ago has reached apparent breaking pointwith the pantomime antics on Capitol Hill. Te search orlong-term alternatives to the dollar is on as never beore. Everyone can only look on in horror as the U.S. commitsapparent economic suicide.

U.S. reasuries are the very backbone o the globalfinancial system. Tey are the supposed risk-ree asset

against which everything else is benchmarked, and assuch are the collateral o choice in a huge array o financialmarket transactions. Te dollar is also the currency used toprice most commodities, rom oil to gold.

Serious alternatives to the dollar, such as a globalreserve currency, are still a long way off, but the latest she-nanigans on Capitol Hill have given the search or themrenewed and added momentum. Te U.S. is recklesslythrowing away its uture.

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Why the U.S. Shouldbe DowngradedMichael Casey,MARKETWATCH |October 16

T

has lost its aith in the

U.S. It no longer deserves to be ariple-A credit.Tis was encapsulated in the nods

o agreement that were seen in apacked auditorium at a Washingtonconerence o international bankers[last] Friday.

When men and women who controltens o trillions o dollars in U.S.investments are indicating theyvelost their aith in America, it goes tothe very question o whether the U.S.deserves to be at the center o world

finance its clear now that the dys-unctional American political systemno longer justifies a riple-A ratingrom anyone.

It matters not whether the U.S. isactually orced into a devastatingdeaultstill an extremely unlikelyevent. riple-A credits do not behavelike this.

In top-rated countries, politi-cians do not use instruments like theederal debt ceiling as an extortionist

political tool. In allowing that tohappen, the U.S. is abrogating itsresponsibilities as issuer o the worldsreserve currency and as protector othe risk-ree rate.

With so much at stake, the U.S.cant depend on oreign investors

to keep rolling over its debts justbecause the dollars reserve-currencystatus locks them into that trade. Itsno coincidence that Chinese newsagency Xinhua ran an op-ed Mondaycalling or a de-Americanized world.

Pushing Teachers toWear Pro-Gay Badges

Robby Soave, DAILY CALLER |October 10

L A public schools are en-couraging teachers and staff to wearbadges that identiy them as allies and supporters o the pro-gaymovement.

Superintendent John Deasy kickedoff the effort Tursday, which he saidwas necessary to prevent gay kids rombeing bullied. Te move is part othe L.A. Gay and Lesbian Centers

Out or Sae Schools initiative.

Te ront sides o the badges havethe word ally written on them inseveral different languages, whichwill help teachers celebrate the abu-lousness o gay students, gay ellowteachers, and other gays, whose gay-ness automatically merits universal

applause and celebration. Allies arestraight supporters o gay people andgay marriage.

Te reverse sides o the badgesinclude a handy list o resourcesavailable to gays and their supporters.Te list handily includes the public-sector unions United eachers LosAngeles, , and Associated Ad-ministrators o Los Angeles, allowingL.A.s organized labor community torejoice in the school districts saluteto gayness.

Because nothing deters bullieslike having their victims specialnesspublicly praised by authority figures,the L.A. Gay and Lesbian Centerapplauded the school district or its

groundbreaking work in applaudinggay students.

Friday marked the beginning o theinitiative, to coincide with NationalComing Out Day, during which theEnglish-speaking peoples unite inpaying tribute to gays.

I remarks about the social breakdowno Britain, Sir Michael Wilshaw, the chie inspectoro schools and social care, attacked hollowed out andragmented amilies where parents suffer a poverty oaccountability.

Sir Michael made the comments as Osted [schoolinspection office] published a national report on the state osocial care, which showed that almost six out o councilsare ailing to do enough to protect vulnerable children andrevealed that , youngsters are growing up in homesblighted by drug or alcohol addiction.

But he said child abuse and neglect was not the ault olocal authorities alone. Such issues were the product o a

social breakdown, he added.Sir Michael warned that the problems exposed in child

abuse scandals were being deepened by an apparent na-tional obsession with pussyooting around and makingexcuses or bad parents.

Abuse and neglect do not happen randomly, they are theproduct o social breakdown. He cited figures that showed, children were being raised by people addicted to

hard drugs.But Sir Michael said many children were alienated

rom their natural ather and that this lay at the root o thewider problems.

Some people will tell you that social breakdown is the

result o material poverty. Its more than this, he added.Tese children lack more than money: they lack parents

who take responsibility or seeing them raised well. It isthis poverty o accountability which costs them.

Tese children suffer because they are not given clearrules or boundaries, have ew secure or sae attachments athome, and little understanding o the difference betweenright and wrong behavior.

I we believe that the amily is the great educatorandI certainly do believe thatand the community the greatsupport system, then we as a society should worry deeplyabout the hollowing out and ragmentation o both.

He continued: Children [are] abused because their bio-

logical parents were long ago alienated rom each other andthe new man in the houseofen the latest in a successiono menis violent and resentul.

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n Chinese downgrades U.S. debtratingChinas main credit rating agencydowngraded Americas sovereigndebt rating on October . Dagong

Global Credit Rating noted thatpolitical division and Americasoverall economic condition remain

unchanged despite the last minute

F recipients in Louisianathought they hit the jackpot onSaturday. A glitch caused their oodstamp debit cards to show unlimitedspending benefits. How did many othem repay the generosity o their

country?Lets just say it didnt take long or

word to spread. Masses o shoppersdescended on the local Walmarts in Mansfield and SpringHill, Louisiana.

It was definitely worse than Black Friday. It was worsethan anything we had ever seen in this town, said Sprin-ghill Police Chie Will Lynd. Tere was no ood lef onany o the shelves, and no meat lef. Te grocery part oWalmart was totally decimated.

So many shoppers began to cram into the stores that po-lice had to be callednot to stop shoppers rom raudulentlyusing their ood stamp cards to stealbut or crowd control.

Shoppers were lined up with two, three, six, even ten shop-ping carts stuffed to the brim with ood and other goods.

In Spring Hill, one Walmart eventually had to shutits doors to shoppersagain, not to prevent Food Stamp

raud, but because so many people were crammed insidethat the store was becoming a fire hazard.

Spring Hill police said they inormed Walmart that ithad the right to reuse the aulty ood stamp cards, butWalmart corporate headquarters told the local stores to letthe people purchase whatever they wanted with the cards.

When the Spring Hill Walmart announced on itsspeaker system that the ood stamp glitch had been fixed,shoppers abandoned their stuffed shopping carts wherethey stood.

Tis whole episode says a lot about America. Tousandso shoppers eagerly stole as much as they could. Americasbiggest retailer abetted them, ostensibly to ensure theycould get ood or their amilies, and the police whencalled, were unable to do anything about it besides makingsure the looting was orderly and efficient.

Americas culture is rapidly degrading. When so manypeople not only see absolutely no problem with stealingand stealing rom people trying to help thembut also go

out o their way to steal as much as possible, casual ly, inbroad daylight or the whole nation and world to see, youknow bad times are ahead.

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deal to temporarily raise the debtceiling. Te agency warned that debtgrowth ar outpaces tax revenue andAmericas is stagnant. Underthese conditions, it said it was orcedto cut Americas rating rom A to

A- with a negative outlook. BecauseAmerica relies on borrowing moneyrom oreign nations to pay back loansthat are coming due, America stands

on the verge o a deault crisis thathas no easy resolution, it said. TeBible warns o the dangers o debt andspecifically against borrowing romoreign nations. Now America is pay-ing the price.
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having precedence, a greater sense oimportance, over his counterparts. Byentering the room synchronously, allthree had equal importance.

Tis is geopolitics in the age oman: inantile, embarrassing, and soofenin a shake-your-head, let-out-a-

big-sigh sort o wayentertaining.In , Russias oreign minister stormed rom a post-

war victory celebration in Paris afer he was seated in thesecond row, behind his counterparts in the first row romFrance, Britain and America. Te man was livid! Te warhad ended, and Stalin had helped deeat Germany andJapan. Te was a first-rower now!

Te history o international relations is filled with anec-dotes like this.

Why bring this up? Because human nature hasntchanged in , years, and it sure hasnt changed over thelast . Even today, in our age o sophisticated internation-al politics, small gestures continue to carry great meaning.

Which brings us to Americas president and his chronichabit o committing gestures o disrespect and hostility toalliesand worse, gestures o weakness and subservienceto competitors. Most recently, it was Mr. Obamas phonecall to new Iranian President Hasan Rouhani. Tis hap-pened weeks ago and was airly widely reported on, buthave we really thought on the significance o this gesture?

rumpeteditor in chie Gerald Flurry called this themost shameul phone call thats ever been made by a leadero this land.

Te president initial ly wanted to meet Rouhani on thesidelines o last months UN General Assembly in New

York. But the meeting never happened because, as Haaretzand others reported, Iran decided a meeting[duringthe UN conerence] would be too complicated. Reject-ing Obamas advance was a play designed to establishdominance in the relationship. Rouhani might be a rookieamong world leaders, but he plays the game like a veteran.Once jilted, Mr. Obama should have lef Rouhani alone.Afer all, Iran is eeling the pain o economic sanctionsand domestic pressure is intensiying. Instead, Mr. Obamahurriedly grabbed the phone and made the call.

Te call that every American president since JimmyCarter, Democrat and Republican, was smart enough notto make.

Te call to the regime that longs to destroy America, Israeland the West, and thus create the global violence and anar-chy needed to usher in the Islamists messiah, the Mahdi.

Te call to the regime that sustains and leads globalIslamist terrorism.

Te call to the regime most responsible or Middle Easttension and instability.

Te call to an undemocratic, radical Islamist regime thatrejects every basic human right o its citizens.

Te call that struck ear into the leaders o Saudi Arabia,Jordan and the Gul states.

Te call that punctuated the reality to Israel, yet again, that

America couldnt care less about the threats encompassingAmericas most loyal riend and partner in the Middle East.

In America, the reaction to Mr. Obamas call, especiallyin the mainstream media and among liberals, was largelypositive. Many considered it a major breakthrough, thestart o a resh new dialogue with Iran. Meanwhile, ewstopped to consider how Iranperceived the phone call.

Wow, this is antastic, said Armin Kay, an Iranian

engineer reacting to the news. Te most important thing isthat Obama took the initiative. Tis will go down really wellwith our leadership.Rouhani boasted about it on his wit-ter page, though the tweets were later removed.

Irans currency, the rial, rose percent against the dollaron the open market ollowing the landmark call.

Who cares what the New York imesor naive journal-ists thinkthey have no practical bearing on the end goal.What really matters is the impact o this gesture on theregime in ehran. A - !

We see gestures conveying this message regularly romMr. Obama. Remember the now inamous photo o his

bowing beore Saudi Arabias King Abdullah? Aides at thetime said the president was merely leaning orward to shakethe kings hand. But that lie was exposed a ew months laterwhen he visited Japan and bowed, this time convincingly,deliberately and unapologetically, beore Emperor Akihito.Like the phone call to Rouhani, this was a first in history:the first bow by a U.S. president beore a oreign leader.

Mr. Obama has made gestures o equal significance toriends and alliesonly on these occasions theyve beengestures conveying disrespect and hostility. One o his firstactions upon moving into the Oval Office was to get rid oa bust o Winston Churchill, a gif rom the British govern-

ment signiying the historic riendship between Americaand Britain. When ormer British Prime Minister MargaretTatcher died earlier this year, President Obama didnt at-tend the uneral, and reused to send even a single servingmember o his administration.

In , when he met Israels prime minister or the firsttime, Benjamin Netanyahu was made to enter the WhiteHouse through a side door and into a meeting room wherepress cameras were not allowed. In September last year,when Netanyahu visited New York and Washington, thepresident reused to see himthe first t ime a U.S. presidentreused to meet a visiting Israeli prime minister.

Each o these gestures conveyed a powerul message to

the nation and leader involved, and to the world at large.What is going on here? Why is the White House doing

this? It isnt a matter o mere inexperience or poor school-ing in the symbolism o international relations. o thecontrary, the precision, the attention to detail, the growinglist o such gestures, reveals an astonishing malevolenceor America and its role in the world. Something deeper isaoot here. One can sense it in multiple acets o the gov-ernment too, not just oreign policy. What is it?

I youre seriously interested in finding out, then readour bookletAmerica Under Attack.

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