Senator Carl Levin (D – MI) says that military attacks and “most options” should remain on the table in Yemen, and advocated using drones and warplanes to launch unilateral attacks against sites in the country.
Sen. Levin dismissed the idea that the Yemeni government might not approve of the attacks, saying that even if they publicly criticized them “it would be expected that they would either agree privately, or accept without objection privately.”
The Obama Administration has increasingly relied on drone attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan as a way to launch attacks against suspects. Unreliable intelligence and a massive civilian death toll have led to growing concerns about this policy, however.
The US already has troops on the ground in Yemen, operating in training capacities as well as in covert roles. They also launched at least one series of missile strikes against the nation last month. Despite calls to do so, the Obama Administration insists there are no current plans to invade Yemen outright, however.
Sometimes I wonder if the objective hasn't become (or hasn't always been) the production of new "failed states".
Yemen is already pretty much "failed" but that should not be anyone's concern.
OTOH one has to wonder about the mental health of these so-called "senators" publicly advocating arbitrary killings and shrugging off any hint at possible legal or moral problems. Do they have shrinks on retainer in the senate?
How about advocating drone strikes in Israel to blow up illegal Jewish settlements for a change?
Death from above with no threat to any US servicemen. Excellent! Now if they can just have drone ground weapons and sea weapon, we will be set to wage war without the messy problem of flag drapped caskets.
When we will have our own terminators and cylons?
Do we need another war?
This guy is an idiot and I am quite suspicious of his real motives and who he is really looking out for.
Levin should move to Israel and take with him ALL of the other TRAITORS in our Congress whose ONLY loyalty is to Israel.
Don't these stinking zionists ever get tired of pushing war against Arabs!!! If the Jews in Congress are so pro-human rights, why haven't any of them–not even Alan Grayson–ever called for sanctions against Israel for 60 years of terrorism, land theft, assassinations, bombing of civilians, and war crimes? What country are they really representing?
Israel and her LOBBY is trying and succeeding into turning the USA into a carbon-copy of Israel, a psychotic, violently, out of control state that regularly commits war crimes and crimes against humanity against Israel's 'existential' enemies, which is pretty much the entire ME, except for the Zionist stooge states of Egypt, Saudi Årabia and Jordan.
so let's bomb the hell out of Yemen so Israel can remain a bigoted, racist apartheid nightmare that answers to no one.
Ditto…. WTF is going on here… The BROKE, heavily in debt empire wants to get war with 1.4 B Islam.
OOOO, & pleeze, don't acquire any weapons to defend YOUR PEOPLE as we shock and Jock R way into yer homes with our "smart" bombs… and [DEPLETED?] highly poisonous uranium munitions to wreck genetic mayhem…on the semitic peoples of Arabia and BEYOND…..
another Israeli in our american congress