Hardly a bombing goes by an Iraq that the Iraqi government and American forces don’t blame on the remnants of the Ba’athist regime overthrown in the 2003 invasion. It is constantly alleged that the Ba’athists are secretly in league with al-Qaeda, though evidence for this is always lacking.
But now, some of Saddam Hussein’s top spies, having fled to Yemen when America invaded, have found a new and unlikely ally in the United States, which is recruiting them into a rival spy agency within the Yemeni government, created specifically to tackle al-Qaeda.
The Ba’athist spy agency was created at the behest of the US, but it likely didn’t take much coaxing of Yemeni President Saleh, a long-time ally of Saddam Hussein who has been known as “little Saddam” himself.
Though it is perplexing policy when coupled with repeated official statements against the Ba’athists, it is hardly surprising that the US has once again gone down this road, having eagerly allied with Saddam’s Ba’athist regime before eventually declaring it an enemy and invading. Whether the Saleh government will share the Saddam government’s fate remains to be seen.
Well, in a matter of fact from my piont of veiw, it's not about Ba'athists, but it's about people who can help to do the job, the AQ is spreading like a pligue in this earth, and it has to be whatever it take's to eleminate them, also fighting this culture (the extremists like AQ and others) is a must for everyone who believe in making world a safer place and clean it from all extremists..
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also fighting this culture (the extremists like AQ and others) is a must for everyone who believe in making world a safer place and clean it from all extremists..
just like the soviet union… minus the huge industrial base, huge army, huge following of committed supporters.
other than that i guess empowering any one and every one who happens to be aligned against al quaeda at the moment seem like a great idea, with no possible consequence 20 years down the line
Yemen is a opening corridor for US and European militarism or if you will NATO into Africa, the invasion of Iraq was based on the idea by Paul Wolfowitz, Bush and his little Neo Fascism law and military enforcements to occupying Persian gulf, now the mess is grater then before and things are getting more complicated and uglier then ever before.. LOOK.., the Second World War was about dominating the world.. Adolph Hitler made a mistake invading Russia, this neo fascism group of people reverse the idea by invading Iraq…, therefore that war .., the second world war.., is not finished yet and the sad part of it is that the way is going it well never end.., unless there is a total withdraw of all military forces’ from the area, unfortunately this idea is not on the table by US nor the Europeans so this war will lead to another and another will lead another and so on.. There is a saying that: a stupid man throws a valuable stone so far that hundreds of intelligent men have to look for it for years.., question is if they ever find that stone.
The poor Baithists in Yemen dont they know it is suicide to be a friend to the US ,
Our stated purpose is to bring stability and democracy to all these countries, but that's not the real, unstated purpose of all our interventions and occupations.
The actual institutional imperatives at work here are 1) profits for the MIC and investors like Richard Perle, Michael Chertoff and Diane Feinstein's husband, 2) Congressional pork that goes with militarism, 3) career enhancement for our officer corps, State Dept/CIA employees and think tank fellows, 4) the elite need to distract the people from ongoing domestic disasters like employment, retirement, education and healthcare. To further those institutional goals, we need more not less instability in the world, to justify larger and larger MIC expenditures. Any dissidents such as Mathew Hoh are quickly marginalized.
When measure against stated objectives, US policies are a consistent and dismal failure. However, when measured against the above institutional imperatives, those same policies are wildly successful. Expect more of the same until the people wake up.
Excellent points!
The point is not whether the Ba'athists were enemies of the U.S. government in the past and are now friends, or whether Osama Bin Laden was a friend of the U.S. government in the past and is now an enemy. The point is this: the U.S. political-military-industrial complex MUST always find enemies to destroy in order to wage endless war for endless profits.