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We have all heard the story of the American AQ member in Yemen that is the recruiter for the organization…that he is on some sort of list for neutralizing…..and we have all heard of the training camps in Yemen, the …..well you get the drift here…..
On to my question…..will Yemen become the newest frontline in the war on terror?
With the opening of a new front in Yemen for the CIA’s drone “targeted killing” program, the Obama administration is steadily escalating the role played by both the covert agency and secretive US military Special Operations forces as a global Murder Incorporated.
“The White House, in an effort to turn up the heat against Al Qaida’s branch in Yemen, is considering adding the CIA’s armed Predator drones to the fight,” reported the Associated Press on Thursday, citing senior Washington officials.
“The US military’s Special Operation Forces and the CIA have been positioning surveillance equipment, drones and personnel in Yemen, Djibouti, Kenya and Ethiopia” in preparation for the stepped-up killing spree, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
The Washington Post quoted intelligence officials as saying that the CIA now views Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula as a “more urgent” threat than the Qaeda organization in Pakistan.
If this continues, how long will be be before troops are needed to fight the enemy properly? Or will it be just the drone strikes to avoid the use of troops?
I feel like Nostradamus…..for I predicted an expanding role of the US in Yemen at the first of the year in my annual predictions…..and NO one needed a decoder ring to figure out what I had said…..
Yes, good post…
I wonder, does the spread of AQ and the obsession with fighting it have echoes of the spread of communism and the West’s apparent need to the fight against it wherever it appeared?
Of course, AQ’s approach is different. But in view of that, is the US at last, just perhaps, learning to modify its response accordingly?
If so and if AQ really is the problem it’s made out to be (which I suspect it probably is, since, like so many similar things, it’s based on pointless and wasteful hatred – rational or not), perhaps the US is at last learning the lessons of Vietnam??
Good comment and thoughts…..I think that the US has learned a lesson from the VN days…but they will not change their mindset…..instead of doing the damage and backing out they want to stay and help build some form of democracy…at least that is the pitch they use to the people….
Yeah… I don’t personally put much store in pitches 😈
Me either…and this country is full of pitches…and I will be writing about most of them in the coming weeks….it started with the vague concept of traditional values….