Posted on 02/10/2015 9:36:58 AM PST by tcrlaf
Another US-friendly regime has folded completely, and after bumbling US foreign intervention in Libya and Egypt made the countries into terrorist breeding grounds where Americans are kidnapped on sight or worse, it is now Yemen's turn: another country in the Middle East whose president until recently was backed by the US government, and which will now be nothing more than civilian casualty fodder for remote-controlled US drones.
YEMENI EMPLOYEES SAY US AMBASSADOR IN YEMEN INFORMS STAFF THE EMBASSY IS CLOSING DOWN COMPLETELY, AMBASSADOR TO LEAVE BY WEDNESDAY
For those Americans who are still on location, fear not: you are in good hands:
US TO ASK TURKEY OR ALGERIA TO LOOK AFTER ITS INTERESTS IN YEMEN WHILE THE EMBASSY IS CLOSED - YEMENI US EMBASSY EMPLOYEES
And now it's time for Obama to discuss just how "isolated" Putin really is.
Rulers that want most of us dead, the rest in chains.
Another Ozero success story.
Nope. They’re Iran, I mean Shia.
This can’t be, Obama said the media is overstaing the terrorist threats...is the media shutting down the embassy or Obama?
“Does it pose a threat to Saudi Arabia?”
Big time.
Seizing the Saudi oil fields and Mecca are strategic goals of the Iranians.
The Saudi oil fields and oil infrastructure are concentrated in the Eastern Province, which has long had a large native Shia population.
With Yemen, Iran can land shiploads of heavy weapons on the Arabian Peninsula. They can mass an army, and smuggle arms and explosives into the Kingdom.
If they have the combined oil of Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia; they will control oil prices for the world, and be fabulously resourced to expand. Coupled with nuclear weapons, they will become a much greater threat than Saddam threatened to become by seizing Kuwait and massing by the Saudi border.
The army that saved Saudi Arabia from Saddam has been dismantled. The heavy US VII Corps which swung around wide and crushed the Iraqi Republican Guards no longer exists - inactivated, and colors cased.
If the Saudis invite the Turks in, Erdogan is unlikely to leave. Egypt has a thousand tanks, and might be able to muster a few hundred operational.
It is so weird to watch history unfold before our eyes. It’s impossible to care about Saudi Arabia, with their complicity, at the very least enabling terrorists. Is what emerges going to incredibly anti-US, more so than the regimes that were ousted by US-inspired change?
G-d grant our people safe passage home, and be with those who helped us and remain.
Shooting war with Canada, my you’re the optimist aren’t you?
(I kinda figured on an invasion by the Bahamas.)
That about sums it up. It took the western Roman empire several generations to fall apart. We might do it in less than 2.
Obama brought Cook County Democrat economics and politics to the national level. Look what that has done for our country.
As POTUS, Hillary will bring her successful Libyan/Yemeni policies next. Just imagine.
Another Obama Administration foreign policy success.
I’m so glad we are getting out of that hellhole. They were never really on our side.
I still mourn all those young sailors who died on the Cole.
Will the last drone out, shut off the lights ?
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