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Ah, the Balkans - the gift that keeps on giving. Methinks this story is long from over. A week into the political turmoil caused by reactions from Banja Luka and Belgrade to High Representative Miroslav Lajčak's latest measures, Mesić told Croatian Radio that the Republic of Srpska (RS) leadership wished to see disintegration of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Ethnic Serbs and Croats, as well as Bosniaks, are the three constituent nations in the two entities the country has been divided into after the end of the 1992-1995 war there.
"This is a serious gamble with Bosnia's and with their own future, since the international community cannot in any case accept the breakup of Bosnia-Herzegovina," Mesić said.
First week in DEC will be a big one for you old Kosovo hands. May need a new Balkans tag. Hey, there it is.
When things like this take place, you know you have much more problems with the adults than the children. A 13-year-old junior high school student was given two days of detention after school officials spotted her hugging friends after school last Friday.
Megan Coulter, an eighth-grade student at Mascoutah Middle School, was hugging her friends goodbye after school Friday when vice principal, Randy Blakely, saw her and told her she would receive two after-school detentions.
Blakely had previously warned Coulter that she was in violation of the school's policy on public displays of affection after she was seen hugging a student at a football game.
The school's policy says that “displays of affection should not occur on the campus at any time.”
Coulter's mother, Melissa Coulter, says she has requested to speak with the School Board at its next meeting, and is mystified about the punishment leveled at her daughter.
Mascoutah Superintendent Sam McGowen said today that the district's policy helps prevent misunderstandings and unwelcome expressions of affection.
Where are the parents storming the School Board building with torches and pitchforks? Do they know? Do they care? Or, as I suspect, are they mindless slaves to those who they outsource their children to?I bet Anne has no problem with hugs.
Some of my non-USN readers who have no problem with Rep. Sestak (D-PA) hanging out with "Baggy-socks" Sandy Berger or the German-American Bund ... errr... CAIR, might wonder why, almost to a Sailor, no one in the Navy cared much for the guy. Why within hours of becoming CNO the present Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff fired him. Well, I hope most of you know the movie "Office Space." If so, this clip should explain a lot.
Don't like the Senate now? Think about the number 60.
Is getting a lot better. A lot better.In a dramatic turnaround, more than 3,000 Iraqi families driven out of their Baghdad neighborhoods have returned to their homes in the past three months as sectarian violence has dropped, the government said Saturday.
Saad al-Azawi, his wife and four children are among them. They fled to Syria six months ago, leaving behind what had become one of the capital's more dangerous districts—west Baghdad's largely Sunni Khadra region.
The family had been living inside a vicious and bloody turf battle between al-Qaida in Iraq and Mahdi Army militiamen. But Azawi said things began changing, becoming more peaceful, in August when radical anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his Mahdi Army fighters to stand down nationwide.
About the same time, the Khadra neighborhood Awakening Council rose up against brutal al-Qaida control—the imposition of its austere interpretation of Islam, along with the murder and torture of those who would not comply.
The uprising originated in Iraq's west and flowed into the capital. Earlier this year, the Sunni tribes and clans in the vast Anbar province began their own revolt and have successfully rid the largely desert region of al-Qaida control.
Could the SECDEF be reading CDR Salamander??? Naw....but still.Gates said before the NATO session that he was not satisfied with the allies' efforts. In Heidelberg he was more direct and specific, telling the army chiefs that the stakes in Afghanistan were great.
"If an alliance of the world's greatest democracies cannot summon the will to get the job done in a mission that we agree is morally just and vital to our security," he told the European army generals, "then our citizens may begin to question both the worth of the mission and the utility of the 60-year-old trans-Atlantic security project itself," referring to NATO, which was created in 1949.
Time to end the "American occupation of Europe?" From the Left and right - many would buy off on it. Screw up AFG - and you just may get that.
