by Patrick Lang (bio below)
Drawing Iraq’s Sunnis into the Political Process
by Vicky O’Hara
All Things Considered, November 22, 2005 · The U.S. and Iraqi governments are increasing efforts to involve Sunni Arabs in the country’s political process. But officials acknowledge that it is difficult to identify the real powerbrokers. Critics of their efforts suggest that the United States is talking to the wrong people.
I get a few words in here.
Pat Lang
Col. Patrick W. Lang (Ret.), a highly decorated retired senior officer of U.S. Military Intelligence and U.S. Army Special Forces, served as “Defense Intelligence Officer for the Middle East, South Asia and Terrorism” for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and was later the first Director of the Defense Humint Service. Col. Lang was the first Professor of the Arabic Language at the United States Military Academy at West Point. For his service in the DIA, he was awarded the “Presidential Rank of Distinguished Executive.” He is a frequent commentator on television and radio, including MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann (interview), CNN and Wolf Blitzer’s Situation Room (interview), PBS’s Newshour, NPR’s “All Things Considered,” (interview), and more .
Personal Blog: Sic Semper Tyrannis 2005 || Bio || CV
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Novel: The Butcher’s Cleaver (download free by chapter, PDF format)
“Drinking the Kool-Aid,” Middle East Policy Council Journal, Vol. XI, Summer 2004, No. 2
I can’t get that audio to play! I’ll try the front page of All Things Considered, and see if that works.
Right now, I’m listening to Maureen Dowd on KUOW.
Linking out direct links doesn’t always work for Media. Sometimes all you can do is point them to the website’s page that carries it. There is supposed to be a way to point people to the pages and have the link automatically open the media you want, but I haven’t figured that one out yet? (too busy to learn it right now!)
I don’t have time to check it out now, BUT I hope to Listen to Pat’s audio when I get back from Montreal.
Pat Lang has become one of my favorite reads here, along with people like Boo, Larry, and of course the great susanhu! lol 🙂 (Who me? A suck up? Nah… Just being honest.)
As a side note: We should do a clinic on tips for linking/posting effects/etc. one day here at Bootrib to share some of the tricks of the trade on html and other stuff. Stuff like adding audio and video (If someone has the storage), and other little things. Try and bring up the quality and effectiveness of everyone involved in the community. I know that a lot of the information can be found at places like HTMLgoodies… But it would be nice to have our own resource linked off from somewhere like the FAQ section.
I linked to the page, not to the audio. It doesn’t work.
of it ongoing incompetence at providing workable audio streams. They set it up with this multi-step hierarchy of URLs so you can’t even paste the right one into the right player. They’ve been screwing around for at least a year with something that really just ain’t that hard. I suspect it’s all about an obsession with making sure nobody ever copies a stream to their own computer — like I couldn’t just use a tape recorder anyway.
Their tech department needs a good housecleaning.
THANK YOU SO MUCH for venting ! I have had the worst problems with their audio …. not with other sites (except for some AM radio sites).
It’d also be nice if they could just provide the FULL DAMN link to the audio … not one of their internal / links.
The Chicago npr outlet has finally gotten its act together (for now, at least, until some national genius persuades them to screw it all up again). They just do the obvious thing: put up a realaudio (.ram) file like this, for example.
I have to wonder if the GOP zombies Bush stuffed onto the CPB board brought their faith-based technologies with them. It really is hard to believe they can be this incompetent by accident.
KUOW in Seattle finally got its act together too, and now it’s wonderful. I used to have an awful time when I had dial-up … but now they’ve got links for every audio system and speed.
Dave, I can’t listen to Ed Schultz’s show at all — on any of the AM station he lists. It’s not life and death that I listen to him but, for example, when Larry’s on his show, I’d like to. And of course Schultz provides almost no archives.
The other site that gives me fits: Comedy Central. My daughter says she can’t get their videos or audios to play half the time either.
I have a Mac, but I’ve downloaded all the latest Windows Media and Real Audio apps, and I don’t have any problems — EXCEPT for MSNBC. MSNBC does “not recognize” my system. FU!
NOW IT WORKS! I just tried it again … they must have fixed it.