WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Short stay miffs Norwegians
You just can’t make this stuff up!
But he skipped several other activities, including lunch with the king, a news conference at Oslo’s Grand Hotel, CNN’s traditional interview with the prize winner and a "Save the Children" benefit concert, where organizers replaced him with an Obama cardboard cutout. Obama also won’t be around for Friday’s Nobel Concert.
Well… at least cardboard has substance!
And the Russkies saluted his Nobel Prize win for Obama’s work in nuclear disarmament with the launch and subsequent failure of a new inter-continental ballistic missile.
The Associated Press: WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Short stay miffs Norwegians
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Pakistan is “a broken reed…”
According to a DebkaFile article, Pakistan is “a broken reed in military terms and too vulnerable to lean on.”
Apparently the Taliban took over the army headquarters and key nuclear arms cities as a demonstration that if the government tries to shut them down in Waziristan, they can shut the govt down, including the military control over nuclear arms.
Since Pakistan and Afghanistan are joined at the hip, this is worth watching
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