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Editor's note: The man called the "Butcher of Bosnia" has finally been caught. Radovan Karadzic led Bosnian Serbs back in the 1990s. He also allegedly led a campaign to kill Bosnian Muslims in what was widely called ethnic cleansing. CNN's Chief International Correspondent, Christiane Amanpour, joined us on AC360°. She offered this perspective earlier by phone.
This is a very good day for international justice. Radovan Karadzic has been on the run for more than 10 years now. He was indicted twice back in 1995, not just for the siege of Sarajevo and the wholesale slaughter of Bosnian Muslims and Croats around Bosnia, but also more specifically for the massacre at Srebrenica on July 11, 1995, when more than 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were separated and slaughtered.
This was the worst massacre in Europe since World War II. And after the U.S. brokered the Dayton Accords, which ended the Bosnian war, Radovan Karadzic was meant to be handed over, along with his fellow henchman, the former Bosnian Serb General, Ratko Mladic, who is still on the run.
This, of course, has been a great shame for the international community. They have refused to get too far into trying to capture him while NATO forces were in Bosnia. They were afraid of getting hurt. They were afraid of all sorts of instability, and they did not go after him hard enough.
His being at large has held up Serbia's full integration into the international community and the European Union. His capture and Mladic's capture have been a condition for accepting Serbia into the European Union
And now he's been captured after many, many years hiding out, finally captured in Serbia. It's been welcomed by the head of the War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague, where Radovan Karadzic will shortly be dispatched to hear the formal charges and face prosecution.
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Maureen Miller
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Good Evening! Senator Barack Obama is 6,200 miles from the campaign trail and trying to look presidential. Do you think it's working? Today the Democratic presidential candidate met with Iraq's Prime Minister, Nuri al-Maliki. The Iraqi government says it hopes U.S. troops will be gone by 2010. Yes, if you're checking your 2009-2010 calender, that's similar to Obama's 16-month timetable for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq if he's elected. But don't think that's an Iraqi edorsement of Obama. We'll have the raw politics, tonight on 360.
We're also looking at the decision by the New York Times to reject an op-ed written by John McCain.
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Sen. John McCain campaigned in Kennebunkport, Maine, today with former President George H.W. Bush. Here is a CNN political correspondent Dana Bash's report from the trail:
Dana Bash
CNN Political Correspondent
In the presser below you see that Bush 41 declined every opportunity to dive into the Iraq debate, or anything campaign related at all, except to say that he supports McCain.
After the presser, McCain walked away a lot faster than Bush... and Bush made his way over to us in the press corps to say hello and welcome.
Our camera was still rolling, so I tried to go back at Bush one more time, asking "would you indulge just one more question?"
"I'll indulge it but I might not answer it," Bush replied.
"I have a whole new philosophy," he said.
"What's that?" I asked.
"To stay the hell out of public way, stay out of the press," said Bush.
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Jeff Goldsmith
Author, THE LONG BABY BOOM: An Optimistic Vision for a Graying Generation
The chorus of doomsayers wailing about the impending “retirement” of the aging baby boom is almost deafening- legions of boomers quitting work, moving to Florida, playing MahJongg, and listening to their old Jimmy Buffet records, swamping our fraying safety net with Social Security and Medicare costs.
What’s the problem with this scenario? Simply, no-one seems actually to have spoken to a boomer about it. The vast majority of us have no intention of retiring as our parents did. Our parents were bored silly in retirement; according to gerontologist Ken Dychtwald, today’s retirees watch 43 hrs of television a week, and half wish they were still working. Their health and mood both deteriorated sharply when they stopped working.
Learning from our parents’ experiences, more than 80% of baby boomers plan on working past age 65. While some boomers who haven’t saved enough to retire would suffer a massive drop in their living standards if they didn’t work, for most of us, it is simply that we don’t know how to not work. FULL POST
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Joe Klein
TIME Magazine columnist
The Iraqis have been sending signals for months. They didn't want long term U.S. bases. They didn't want U.S. troops acting independently any more. They wanted some sort of drawdown...and now this, which will have different meanings in both Iraq and the United States.
In Iraq, it means that Maliki now feels confident that he is in charge of the government–and that the government's internal opposition, the Sunni insurgent remnants and the followers of Muqtada al-Sadr don't have the strength to threaten him (or his Kurdish and Hakim family allies). It may also mean that he feels he has the strength to handle, by inclusion or exclusion, the Sunni Awakening forces that were raised and funded by the U.S. military. It should also be clear that Maliki isn't commenting on the military viability of a 16 month withdrawal schedule: he has no idea about the logistics or problems involved in removing 130,000 troops and huge amounts of equipment from the theater of battle.
In short, what Maliki is saying is: Please leave, as soon as possible. He may be saying this for local, political reasons, in the runup to the regional Iraqi elections, but he's saying it.