Following President Barack Obama’s promise earlier this week to escalate attacks on militant factions in Yemen, the Yemeni Ambassador to the United Nations says that while intelligence assistance from the US was welcome, the nation isn’t encouraging American attacks.
That claim may come as a surprise, as just two weeks ago the US launched cruise missile attacks as part of a strike coordinated with the Yemeni government, and that government has also bragged about US aid in its failed assassination attempt against US-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.
The Yemeni government was quite eager to sign a military pact with the US, guaranteeing American cooperation in its assorted domestic conflicts. Yet the prospect of a full scale American war in the nation seems to have them balking, at least publicly.
Which probably isn’t surprising. Yemen’s credibility as a sovereign nation is at stake, particularly with the nation already struggling with multiple separatist movements. Getting on the US gravy train is one thing, but becoming a government that exists purely at the pleasure of an American invasion force is quite another.
Still, US officials say they already have a new list of potential targets drawn up, a list made in concert with Yemeni intelligence agencies. In the wake of the failed Christmas lap bomber, the Obama Administration seems to feel the need to do “something,” even if it is just lobbing missiles heedlessly at Yemen.
News Flash. They do not hate us for our Freedom or Liberties or what we
Stand for. They hate us for what we are doing to them. If my Brother and his Family were handcuffed, dragged into the street and shot like Dogs i would hate you too. If i was an 18 Year old Nigerian that has a Family member rotting away in a USA Military Prison without ever being accused of a Crime i would react too.
If a FOREIGN Government like the USA would be financially supporting a local Regime that is unwanted by the People, I would react too.
They hate us for what we are doing over there. Ever see an al Qaeda member with the Logo stamped on the Forehead? Our child soldiers get 8 weeks training and shoot everything that moves. This is how terrorists are made.
The people in control of our army do not want this war to end. It is up to us to stop it.