Repeated promises that the US would never have “boots on the ground” in Yemen have been broken, and as US drone strikes and US-backed invasions escalate the overall violence in the country, they find themselves pulled deeper and deeper into the conflict.
What was once a red-line against deploying troops has become a deployment of hundreds of special forces troops, nominally “trainers,” in a myriad of advisory positions, and pledges of ever growing support to the regime of new US-backed ruler Maj. Gen. Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
Officials say they are escalating these sorts of operations as an alternative to a full-scale military invasion, yet they seem to be setting the stage for more violence, more anti-US sentiment, and more excuses for that invasion.
President Obama is said to be determined to “capitalize” on the single-candidate election that installed Hadi, but so far this has meant pushing Hadi into launching massive offensives that his military seems ill-prepared to follow through on, and which are dividing the nation all the more.
At least thirty five U.S. combat dead in Afghanistan for May 2012.
Imbecile pretend empire juggernaut lunges along with lackeys pretending we can't be expected to jam the wheels.
Death to Amerika.
“Danger of a good example” — Why not risk it?
Why can’t we support at least one popular democracy for a change? For both our military and CIA do nothing but keep democracies from getting popular, support only despotic tyrants fighting some kind of civil war, and all because “The danger of a good example” is such a sacred cow.