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[PHOTO]Majlis Doa Selamat Di Kediaman Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim Bersama Ustaz Dato Ismail Kamus
Romney’s Approach to Foreign Policy: ‘Deja Vu All Over Again?’
Siasatan Kes Scorpene Berjalan – Peguam
Jelajah Merdeka Rakyat, Simpang Pulai, Perak 07/10/2012

[PHOTO]Majlis Doa Selamat Di Kediaman Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim Bersama Ustaz Dato Ismail Kamus

Posted: 08 Oct 2012 09:41 PM PDT

Nota Admin: Semalam telah berlangsung majlis doa selamat dan tahlil serta tazkirah yang merupakan acara rutin di kediaman Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim. Majlis kali ini disertai tetamu khas iaitu Al-Fadhil Al Ustaz Dato Ismail Kamus yang juga merupakan pengasas pusat perubatan islam Darussalam di Gombak Setia , Gombak , Selangor. Majlis turut sama mendoakan kejayaan kepada kesemua anak-anak Malaysia yang bakal menduduki Peperiksaan Penilaian Menengah Rendah ( PMR )

Romney’s Approach to Foreign Policy: ‘Deja Vu All Over Again?’

Posted: 08 Oct 2012 09:22 PM PDT

From Huffington Post
By John L. Esposito

Mitt Romney, like GWB before he was elected and some might add after he was elected, knows little about foreign policy. Therefore, he has to rely on others for his foreign policy. But this, as we saw with Bush when he was faced with contending advice from Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfled vs. Secretary of State, Colin Powell, becomes dangerous, in a time of crisis (post 9/11) or, as we see now, major transitions in the Middle East.

Facing the next presidential debate with President Barack Obama, he has decided to remedy that perception. But, at the end of the day, it looks like Deja vu all over again?

“The 21st century can and must be an American century.” Romney’s major foreign policy speech reclaims George W. Bush and Republican neocons “New American Century,” speaking now for an “American Century.” Good for U.S. and its friends and allies who have “a longing for American leadership in the Middle East.” Who are they: Gulf rulers, “our partners,” who fear the spread of the Arab Spring “virus” to their countries? Remnants of former dictatorships (military, political, bureaucratic and economic elites) who yearn for return to power and the privileges they enjoyed? Netanyahu’s longing for a return to a president, who like GWB, recognizes (as one senior IDF official said to me) that Israel and the U.S. are “joined at the hip.”

Romney seemed to affirm that uncritical stance with his declaration that “the world must never see any daylight between our two nations,” and his promise of increased military assistance to Israel appeared in the same sentence as its threatened pre-emptive strike against Iranian nuclear facilities. No wonder his commitment or, as he put it, recommitment of “America to the goal of a democratic, prosperous Palestinian state living side by side in peace and security with the Jewish state of Israel” will ring hollow to Palestinians. Moreover, Romney’s return to American century smacks of the long-term unilateralism that even our EU and other global allies resented.

There are many things that have made America a great country, but to fall back on the rhetoric of American exceptionalism, its “proud history of strong, confident, principled global leaderships,” and that “so many people across the world still look to America as the best hope of humankind” is to be deaf to what major polls have reported: that while we are admired for many of our principles, values and accomplishments, many in the world, let alone the Middle East fault us because we do not walk the way we talk. This was true for attitudes towards GWB and, though Obama has articulated a different vision, also for the Obama administrations failure to live up to that vision. This is what fuels anti-Americanism among majorities in many countries who have lived under the dictatorships that the U.S. supported and propped up with their lack of democracy and violations of human rights.

Mitt Romney is correct in stating that there is a “struggle that is playing out across the broader Middle East — a region that is now in the midst of the most profound upheaval in a century.” But to conclude that, “the fault lines of this struggle can be seen clearly in Benghazi itself” is to see diverse populations and progress in nation building in Tunisia, Egypt, Syria and elsewhere through a single lens. He is correct in his analysis regarding U.S. policy in Syria that appears to be in gridlock, supporting the Syrian opposition with words but not weapons, a criticism leveled by many Republican leaders and an increasing number of Democrats. But his promise to include preconditions (he speaks of “clear conditions”) “to urge the new government to represent all Egyptians, to build democratic institutions, and to maintain its peace treaty with Israel” espouses a policy of dictating rather than discussing and negotiating (which he seems ready to do with “our [unelected] partners in the Gulf) with a democratically Egyptian leadership of a sovereign government.

Romney doesn’t get it

Yes, American leadership has been important and remains important in the coming decades and in the midst of post-revolutionary emerging democracies in the Arab world. But that will not happen if the U.S. retreats to the failed policies of the recent based on a conventional wisdom that:

.Failed to live up to U.S. principles and values regarding the right to self-determination, freedoms, and the rule of law.

.Supported and continues to support friends and allies who are autocrats, self-styled Democrats, too many of whom are illiberal secularists.

.Failed to distinguish between terrorists and mainstream Islamists in the past, and now to deal with those who are legitimately democratically elected as partners not clients.

Siasatan Kes Scorpene Berjalan – Peguam

Posted: 08 Oct 2012 07:57 PM PDT

Malaysiakini

Peguam hak asasi manusia, William Bourdon, yang berpejabat di Paris, berkata tidak timbul soal “perbicaraan sedang berjalan” berhubung dakwaan rasuah dalam pembelian kapal selam Scorpene kerana dua hakim Perancis yang dilantik untuk kes itu masih menjalankan siasatan mereka.

Katanya, Tribunal deGrande Instance telah mengadakan siasatan jenayah di mana kumpulan hak asasi manusia di Malaysia, Suaram telah diterima sebagai pihak parti sivil sejak Mac 2012.

Beliau berkata hanya apabila selesai siasatan itu barulah hakim penyiasat akan membuat keputusan sama ada perbicaraan penuh akan diadakan untuk mendengar kes tersebut.

Bourdon (kiri) menyifatkan kenyataan pendakwaraya kerajaan Perancis, Yves Charpenel bahawa “tidak ada perbicaraan” terhadap kes tersebut, sebagai “bercanggah sama sekali” kerana keputusan sama perbicaraan perlu diadakan, akan diputuskan oleh hakim-hakim berkenaan apabila siasatan mereka selesai, dan dan bukannya pihak pendakwa.

“Setahu kami, pendakwaraya yang bertanggungjawab terhadap kes tersebut, tidak membuat sebarang kenyataan seperti yang disuarakan oleh Charpenel.

“Kedua-dua hakim berkenaan – Roger Le Loire dan Serge Tournaire – sedang meneruskan siasatan mereka terhadap kes Scorpene itu.”

Semalam, Bernama melaporkan seorang pendakwa kerajaan Perancis yang terkenal menafikan laporan media yang tersebar di kalangan beberapa portal berita online Malaysia berhubung perbicaraan yang sedang berlangsung di Perancis, mengenai dakwaan rasuah oleh sebuah syarikat Perancis berhubung pembelian dua kapal selam Scorpene buatan Perancis oleh Malaysia pada tahun 2002.

Yves Charpenel dilaporkan berkata media di Malaysia harus dapat membezakan antara khabar angin dan fakta dan antara siasatan dan perbicaraan.

Jelajah Merdeka Rakyat, Simpang Pulai, Perak 07/10/2012

Posted: 08 Oct 2012 08:09 AM PDT