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CBC - Our World
The End of the American Era, Strawberry Fields
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THE END OF THE AMERICAN ERA

What now can be said about US foreign policy under President Bush? The
American public has turned overwhelmingly against the war in Iraq; so has
Congress, which demands that the troops come home; and so has the mighty
American foreign policy establishment. As for its allies, the US is essentially
on its own. This week the British Defence minister even admitted that the war
was a dreadful mistake, totally mishandled by Washington. By many measures,
Iraq appears to be a greater disaster than Vietnam. And it's not just Iraq
that's the problem. Allies are appalled at Washington's failure to promote the
Israel-Palestine peace talks; to join in multilateral actions on human rights
and the environment; or simply to talk to nations it doesn't like, like Syria
and Iran. Patience has run out with the sole superpower. Now a former star
diplomat from the Bush administration says bluntly "the American era in the
middle east is over." He's Richard Haass, a key Mid East policy planner in
the Bush administration, who served in every US administration since Reagan's.
Haass now sits atop the US foreign policy establishment:- as President of the
"Council of Foreign Relations" in New York, one of the oldest and most
prestigious think tanks in the world. This week he and Brian talk about the
damage to US foreign policy.

STRAWBERRY FIELDS

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict can be mind numbingly complicated, with all
its advances and reverses over the years.When we think of Gaza on the
Mediterranean Sea, in particular, we remember the news reports about Israel's
decision in 2005 to disengage from the strip and withdraw its settlers....and
all the drama that that entailed.But how often do Canadians, so far away, get
a real sense of life on the ground, for ordinary people? What is life like for
the more than one million Palestinians in that fertile but troubled strip?
Ayelet Heller, a sensitive Israeli filmmaker, was curious about life in Gaza
and set out to tell the story of Palestinian farmers.What she produced is a
remarkable portrait of the courage of people to just get on with their lives...
in the middle of a war zone.Her documentary is called Strawberry Fields and
was shown recently in Toronto as part of the international Hot Docs festival.


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