U.S. Announces Embassy Closing In Yemen Because Of Al-Qaida Threats
(h/t Mike.)
I'm cautiously optimistic that the administration so far appears to be reluctant to barreling into yet another war in Yemen, even if the beloved Joe Lieberman thinks it's a good idea. Starting a war in Yemen would be catastrophic, not the least because the country has urban areas surrounded by tribal, fundamentalist villages in difficult terrain. And as we've seen, American invasions only strengthen Islamic fundamentalism, they don't stop it:
SAN'A, Yemen -- The U.S. and Britain closed their embassies in Yemen on Sunday in the face of al-Qaida threats, after both countries announced an increase in aid to the government to fight the terror group linked to the failed attempt to bomb a U.S. airliner on Christmas.
The confrontation with al-Qaida's offshoot in Yemen has gained new urgency since the 23-year-old Nigerian accused in the attack, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, told American investigators he received training and instructions from the group's operatives in Yemen. President Barack Obama said Saturday that the al-Qaida offshoot was behind the attempt.
The White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan said the American Embassy, which was attacked twice in 2008, was shut Sunday because of an "active" al-Qaida threat. A statement on the embassy's Web site announcing the closure cited "ongoing threats" from the terror group and did not say how long it would remain closed.
In London, Britain's Foreign Office said its embassy was closed for security reasons. It said officials would decide later whether to reopen it on Monday.
The closure comes as Washington is dramatically stepping up aid to Yemen to fight al-Qaida, which has built up strongholds in remote parts of the impoverished, mountainous nation where government control outside the capital is weak.
The U.S. also provided intelligence and other help to back two Yemeni air and ground assaults on al-Qaida hideouts last month, reported to have killed more than 60 people. Yemeni authorities said more than 30 suspected militants were among the dead.
We've got plenty of money for wars, and lots of available cannon fodder because of the poor job prospects here at home, plus it's a "road to citizenship" for foreign nationals. Bring it!
Okay, you know I don't really mean that. I see this as a horrific step.
"Courtesy is owed. Respect is earned. Love is given." --Unknown author, found in Guide to Texas Etiquette by Kinky Friedman
One thing you can be certain, the pudgy, doughy, pastey white conservative chickenhawks at Redstate and other right wing blogs will be pushing for this war....though none of the would enlist to fight in it.
wanted to start a war it couldn't...we're spread too thin as it is. They'd have to institute a draft.
That's all we need to know that it's a bad idea.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
We need a new song. Bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Yemen - just doesn't sound right. Has gramps McCain been singing a new tune?
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
Give McCain a mission to fly a fighter jet over an Al-Queda base of operations. He's certain to crash his plane into it.
I'd expect something to explode in his pants first, and I don't mean PETN...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
if McGoo would quit messin' around and just draw the damn map to show Barry where Osama is hiding....we could be done with all this ME, Muslim chasing, stuff... which would give us more time to build the darn oil and gas pipelines.!
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
...even if the Republicult has to wait until they "win" another election.
There's too much profit to be had (not that the people whose blood will be greasing the gears of the war machine will ever see any of it).
of the defeatocrat cut-and-run tactics. How bad was the "language" before our cry baby president and his woman Secretary of State decided to turn tail and run? You would have never seen such yellow diplomacy during GW's terms.
Execuse me, but GW closed that embassy 3 times and he had a Lady Secretary of State as well.
Yah, but .... um... I can't remember past yesterday so well. I think that's why I voted for GW, twice, I think...
Sometimes you have to catapult the propaganda . . .
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
Do you ever propapult a cat?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2Je1CEPkUM
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I would but the ammo is too hard to catch.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
Why don't the United States Military Industrial Complex just drop a bomb on every country and get it over with? May all those advocating violence and perpetual war burn in HELL. Oh and F.U. to Congress and President Obama for abandoning the citizens of this country by continuing this whole charade of spreading democracy and going after terrorists when the real aim of the establishment is to gain control of the world's energy resources and destroy anything that dares get in the way. War is a racket and those in Congress supporting this bullshit are lost souls. Is it time to include the United States government as part of the so-called Axis of Evil yet?
Yes, I know this is me feeling an extreme sense of outrage and probably going a little overboard but damn it I just needed to let this out. Better to let it out than keep it bottled up.
This is one of the best places for it.
Otherwise the steam will find a way out - not of your choosing. That can be bad.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
Kinder like "President Mgumbe" in Zimbabwe.
All the dirty furriners were kicked out, and now they can't provide themselves with basic essentials. He's barely holding on to power by his fingertips, and appears to have lost his last election, but he voided it, still trying to blame us for the economy he mismanaged.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
totally manufactured bullshit.
Some stuff you can't make up!
First they manufacture a problem.
"Courtesy is owed. Respect is earned. Love is given." --Unknown author, found in Guide to Texas Etiquette by Kinky Friedman
Send Joe, I'm certain they'll revere him there as much as the Democrats do here. Maybe they'll make him the Yemeni Prime Minister or give him an important chair in the ruling elite. Leave it to Lieberdouche to suggest yet another military conflict. What a fucking douche!
a secular, socialist bulwark against Islamic fundamentalism AND capitalist imperialism.
Ben Bella, Nasser, Mosaddegh, Ataturk...where have you all gone? :-(
..."30 suspected militants". I'm sure it's just a long long string of coincidences how that number keeps coming up.
People from that region of the world call it 'The Yemen', how weird is that? Commence the Shock and Awe in 3.. 2.. 1...
I think they're closing the embassies because we are getting ready to bomb the shit out of them, not because there is a threat there that wasn't there yesterday.
out of oil.....
Perhaps experimenting with some slant drilling under Saudi soil?
You mean like Kuwait was doing to Iraq?
Some dipshit sets his jockstrap ablaze on the way into Detroit? Detroit? He wants to erase General Motors? Chrysler? And now we are going to war with YEMEN? Sorry, I just don't get it.
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