Libya: Send us more arms or face wider terrorism threat

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Libya on Saturday asked the world either to give it more weapons and other support to help restore security and rebuild its institutions or to declare outright that the conflict-torn North African state "must face terrorism alone."

Candidate for top EU post stumbles into trade minefield

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's trade commissioner-designate stumbled into a political minefield on Saturday by suggesting she wanted to exclude a controversial investor protection clause from a planned EU-U.S. trade agreement.

Rocket fired at Yemeni special police guarding U.S. embassy in Sanaa: police

SANAA (Reuters) - An unidentified attacker fired a rocket at Yemeni special police guarding the U.S. embassy in Sanaa on Saturday, police sources said, a day after the State Department told U.S. citizens to leave Yemen because of growing political unrest.

Should U.S. General Dempsey Resign?

Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivers remarks during an awards ceremony for Newman's Own grant winners at the Hall of Heroes in the Pentagon, Sept. 24, 2014. DoD photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Daniel Hinton

Is It Time For General Dempsey To Resign? -- Col. Gary Anderson, USMC (Ret.), Best Defense/Foreign Policy

General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, knows that the Obama strategy for dealing with the self-proclaimed Islamic State is doomed to fail as currently structured; he has done as much to speculate in public that it will have to be altered. Without American combat troops on the ground to physically clear the cities and towns that the forces of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi have occupied, we are in for a long and frustrating open-ended conflict that the American people will quickly tire of. Dempsey is too good a tactician not to know differently; having served with him briefly on a fact-finding tour for the deputy secretary of defense in Iraq in 2003, I found him to be one of the best commanders in the field. If he slaps his four stars on the table and tells the president to find somebody else to pitch the next inning, it will make a real difference.



In a telling study of the Vietnam War, H.R. McMaster, now an Army general officer himself, castigates the military general-officer class of that era for quietly carrying out orders that they knew to be wrong. In 2003, many generals strongly disagreed with President George W. Bush's decision to go to war with Iraq, but none resigned in protest. How does this happen?



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My Comment: It is not going to happen .... especially at this moment in time with military operations currently underway (and escalating) in the Middle East.

India's Modi wants Pakistan talks without 'terrorism' shadow

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday that he wants to hold bilateral talks with neighboring Pakistan "without a shadow of terrorism".