{"id":12909,"date":"2010-03-31T09:52:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T16:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=12909"},"modified":"2010-04-02T09:36:50","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T16:36:50","slug":"obamas-differs-little-from-bush-foreign-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2010\/03\/31\/obamas-differs-little-from-bush-foreign-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Differs Little From Bush on Foreign Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-033110\/2010_03_31_erlich.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-033110\/2010_03_31_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/a\/p\/rids\/20100329\/i\/r440592294.jpg?x=276&#038;y=345&#038;q=85&#038;sig=CdCiO_hjyXkDPBFndn07WQ--\" alt=\"obama afghanistan\" \/>US Admiral Mike Mullen met with tribal elders in the tiny Afghan village of Marjah yesterday. Marjah was the site of a major offensive by US troops intended to rout Taliban fighters, and a pre-cursor to a larger fight in Kandahar this June. Mullen&#8217;s meeting followed a surprise visit to Afghanistan by President Obama this past Sunday. Obama addressed US troops in the region, whose numbers have been steadily increasing under the President&#8217;s new policy. He also met with President Karzai in a meeting intended to convey a strong message over rampant corruption in the central government. Karzai had promised not to sign into law a 2007 bill that passed the warlord-dominated parliament providing blanket amnesty to all Afghan war criminals and human rights abusers. But recently the law simply took effect seemingly unannounced, causing an outcry among rights groups and other governments. Karzai&#8217;s own brother, Ahmad Wali Karzai is a well known drug lord operating in the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar. But there is another reason being cited for the President&#8217;s surprise Afghanistan visit. A week earlier, Karzai met with the leaders of Iran and China, a move that sent alarm bells ringing through the White House. President Obama has been pushing hard to garner international support for sanctions against Iran. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Reese Erlich, Freelance foreign correspondent, who has covered the Middle East for 23 years and is the author of three books. His fourth, \u201cConversations with Terrorists,\u201d will be published in September 2010.<\/em> Find out more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reeseerlich.com\">www.reeseerlich.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Reese Erlich&#8217;s speaking events in Southern California: <\/p>\n<p>Wed., March 31<br \/>\n12:30 \u2013 2pm \u2013 \u201cIran&#8217;s Popular Uprising &#8211; A first-hand account\u201d<br \/>\nUniversity of Southern California, School of International Relations Social Science Bldg, #B40<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/web-app.usc.edu\/ws\/eo2\/calendar\/175\/event\/872088\">http:\/\/web-app.usc.edu\/ws\/eo2\/calendar\/175\/event\/872088<\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThursday, April 1<br \/>\n3:30 \u201cObama, Nukes and the Green Movement\u201d<br \/>\nUniversity of California, Irvine, International Studies Public Forum<br \/>\n\u00a0Room 1100, Building A, Social Science Plaza<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/internationalstudies.ss.uci.edu\/event.php?eid=1457\">http:\/\/internationalstudies.ss.uci.edu\/event.php?eid=1457<\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n7:30 pm \u2013 \u00a0\u201cObama, Nukes and Iran\u201d<br \/>\nUniversity of California, Riverside, \u00a0location: The Barn followed by panel discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Admiral Mike Mullen met with tribal elders in the tiny Afghan village of Marjah yesterday. Marjah was the site of a major offensive by US troops intended to rout Taliban fighters, and a pre-cursor to a larger fight in Kandahar this June. Mullen&#8217;s meeting followed a surprise visit to Afghanistan by President Obama this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}