Bob McCarty Writes

Yesterday, I published a post about plans of the BBC’s World Have Your Say radio program to broadcast a 45-minute recording of a question-and-answer session with a representative of the Taliban.  Today, I had a chance to listen to a podcast of the session and found it worth sharing if, for no other reason, to [...]

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The BBC’s World Have Your Say will, according to this update, air 45 minutes of a Taliban spokesperson (a.k.a., “terrorist spin doctor”) answering questions from listeners to the radio program and others who posted questions in the comments section of the program’s blog.  This news comes 13 days after I published news about the internationally-broadcast [...]

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Across the pond, the folks at the BBC’s World Have Your Say radio program are providing a forum via which visitors to their web site can “talk” to the Taliban (i.e., radical Islamic terrorists). If you would like to communicate with one of these ruthless Jihadist murderers, I encourage you to visit their web site [...]

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The video above shows what sometimes happens to reporters in war zones. BBC’s Gavin Hewitt was reporting on the Russian military assault of Georgia from the front line near the town of Gori, he and his crew came under attack from a passing Russian fighter jet.

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A BBC news report offers a look at the war from the Georgian viewpoint and shows evidence of Russian attacks against civilian targets in the former Soviet republic. Click here or on image above to view report. See also: ‘Russia Has Declared War on Us!’ — Georgia (includes several updates) Propaganda Accompanies Russian Attack John [...]

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Yesterday, I had the opportunity to discuss questions of foreign policy with a former U.S. ambassador to Israel when I appeared as a guest on BBC Radio (see this post for details). Today, I’m interested in a rather simple question the folks at Vets For Freedom pose to Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama in the [...]

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As promised in a post this morning, I made a guest appearance on BBC’s WORLD Have Your Say program at Noon (Central). To my surprise, the appearance afforded me the opportunity to exchange views on the subject of diplomacy versus appeasement with some real foreign affairs heavyweights, including Daniel C. Kurtzer, former U.S. Ambassador to [...]

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