Conn Hallinan, journalist
2/17/10 Meria interviews Conn Hallinan, Analyst “Foreign Policy in Focus” and columnist for Berkeley Daily Planet. Is Afghanistan a “good war”? Is Yemen the new enemy? U.S. involvement in Yemen goes back forty years; Control of the Indian Ocean and Red Sea – China; Checkmating China; Afghanistan and Yemen are connected, the regional impact of Afghanistan on India and Pakistan; war games could go nuclear; no such thing as “a local nuclear war”; Giving India nuclear material a big mistake, starting a whole new nuclear arms race; India not a signer on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; scattering the Taliban we’ve made it worse; political differences cannot be solved militarily; energy security and Afghanistan, the crossroads to Asia and Caspian oil reserves; Controlling China’s energy sources; England’s 4th war in Afghanistan; will there be a draft? 3 Talibans in Afghanistan; the Taliban Peace Plan; surge won’t work; U.S. has been in Yemen since 1979; USS Cole; Underwear bomber; Port of Aden; Horn of Africa – the jugular veins of China; Africom – why? End of old empires; solutions for future; Afghanistan-the graveyard of empires.
