by august 31st and any extension beyond that deadline will depend on the taliban which is not a great place to be and there is really no reason for things to have fallen apart this way. trace: and there is just a cow a prominent anchorwoman in afghanistan, we are getting word that now the taliban has now suspended her end of the female employees. she goes on to quote, i m a journalist and i m not allowed to work. what will i do next? everything we have achieved for 20 years will be gone and the taliban is the taliban, they have not changed. the taliban later came out and said there s no political system there. this is sharia law and that s it. that s right. i think last week women could go to work and to go school and they could have dreams and it s all become incredibly uncertain. the taliban have publicly promised they will respect women s rights within islamic law but there is a really wide interpretation of that law and
it is working in putin s favor. always a chess game. it seems like it is the chess game has become far more complicated. read an excerpt from the wall street journal. it minces no word on the president s foreign policy. valt mir putin uses russian special forces to cow a neighbor and steal territory while mr. obama agonizes about what to do. we know mr. obama didn t run for president to engage in great power politics still part of the job description. is he interested in doing his job. there has been plenty of criticism heaped on this president and foreign approximately see. i feel so insofar he has had levers he tried to pull them. do you agree? i do agree. the main lever. the sanctions. not very sexy. they have driven down the russian stock market. making business people around putin nervous. the tool they should be using here. putin is good at this. trying to create an incident. he said 11 people were killed. ukrainian government says no. it is very important the
always a chess game. it seems like it is the chess game has become far more complicated. read an excerpt from the wall street journal. it minces no word on the president s foreign policy. valt mir putin uses russian special forces to cow a neighbor and steal territory while mr. obama agonizes about what to do. we know mr. obama didn t run for president to engage in great power politics still part of the job description. is he interested in doing his job. there has been plenty of criticism heaped on this president and foreign approximately see. i feel so insofar he has had levers he tried to pull them. do you agree? i do agree. the main lever. the sanctions. not very sexy. they have driven down the russian stock market. making business people around putin nervous. the tool they should be using here. putin is good at this. trying to create an incident. he said 11 people were killed. ukrainian government says no. it is very important the ukrainians to me not overreact. and create a vi
some kind of federation with much more latitude for russian speakers. that s fine. but why should ukraine do this? it s not okay. it s not okay with the international community. and the u.s. in this case has to lead from the front. you know, jane, a lot of people are suggesting the president is not doing that. the wall street journal this morning says putin acts, obama assesses. the white house on monday said there was overwhelming evidence that russia is stirring the unrest in eastern ukraine but president obama hasn t yet decided if further sanctions are warranted. it s a perfect summary of the current state of the u.s. foreign policy. vladimir putin uses russian special forces to cow a neighbor and steal territory while mr. obama agonizes about what to do. we know mr. obama didn t run for president to engage in great power politics, but it is still part of the job description.