Clinton: Yemen War a Global Threat
Declares Time for International Community to Take Action
Speaking after a meeting with the Qatari Prime Minister today, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared the ongoing war in Yemen a threat to the entire world.
Clinton noted that the various civil wars in Yemen “seem to just get worse and worse with more players involved,” adding that it was time that the international community to lay out its “expectations” to the Yemeni government.
Yemen has sought to downplay the threat posed by al-Qaeda, and insists that it is more than capable of tackling the militants without international help. At the same time, the government has already turned to the US to provide increasing amounts of training and even weaponry.
Despite Secretary Clinton’s comments about laying out expectations, it appears that the US support for the Yemeni government is secure, and the question is exactly how large of a military commitment the Obama Administration intends to make to the conflict.
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mrraven
January 5th, 2010 at 5:26 am
Ugh Shillery looks and talks more like Mussolini every day. Here are our "expectations" and if you don't meet them you will be invaded and occupied is quite literally the gangster talk of fascism.
m70270
January 5th, 2010 at 2:54 pm
Here again comes the contemporary "Iron Lady", how she can speak to the issues involving Yemen with a straight face is mind-numbing. These "hawks in dove feathers" lecture the world in behavioral manifestations, as they go, casually about, destroying the world. There are no words to properly portray what has become the most dangerous and peace shattering political hacks on the planet. While we lament and demonize the actions of Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Truman, Kissinger et al, were there a Nobel Prize given for the worst skunk at the lawn party, I would nominate the aforementioned.
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January 5th, 2010 at 9:50 am
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doalive
January 5th, 2010 at 9:54 pm
somebody really should tell thair fractured and divided civil populice what they got planned for the masses,what ya got Johnny,thats right ,it's a brand new war,or if ya perfer police action,with all that petro wealth just pouring out and all over everything just upstream no wonder the straights of Hormuz are so conveiyeintly arrayed right near as made famous in the veins of what really goes on ,step by step and why or how,if they just had a bomb that would provide alturstic cover and plausable denialability,instead they just got wahabist (maligned) and Agent Ladens' recruited,nomanated,or ancestral homeland-?,well that and location probably really nice on the desert coast of the Indian Ocean,OO,does any body know,send pictures,I think Sindbad (genuine) used to pass by or live ,,,do you really know anything if ya have been told only by strangers ,probably really nice thair except for the spirit that perpetually seeks war or a balkanazation(patent pending) of Arabian front porch countries,etc exzample etc
ignoremus
January 5th, 2010 at 10:04 pm
After 8 and more years of War on Terror we can see how Al Qaida instead of been defeated has spread to countries wher it was not there in 2001 : Iraq. Yemen, Somalia, Mauritania. We should ask ourselves if the policy of bombs and more bombs is achieving the purpose of winning the war or helping to create the fertile soil for more antiameicanism around the muslim world.
Ira7Epstein
January 5th, 2010 at 9:11 pm
Only a person rendered incapable of thinking critically by years of indoctrination in government schools would believe that the outcome of the tribal wars in Yemen somehow represents a global threat. If Yemen were to vanish from the face of the earth tommorow it would not make one difference in the lives or liberties of the American people, or any other people that are commonly associated with the advanced industrial civilization made possible by free market capitalism. Any "threat" posed by Yemen can only manifest itself in the form of blowback by outsider interference in the various tribal conflicts in Yemen. If the yahoos in charge of the United States government would just mind their own damned business, the world would be a much better and more peaceful place.
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