Posted on 04/05/2015 2:15:14 AM PDT by Libloather
April 2, 2015: In late March Saudi Arabia destroyed the Yemeni Air Force. How that came to be is a strange tale indeed. Saudi Arabia began airstrikes against Yemen on 25 March 2015 in response to requests for assistance from the internationally recognized Yemeni government. The call for help was triggered by a rebellion by northern Shia tribes, seeking more power for themselves and less corruption overall. Over the last year the Shia rebels have gradually taken control of over a third of the country. The elected government was preoccupied fighting Islamic terrorists and separatist Sunni tribes in the south and east and suddenly, at the end of 2014, the Shia rebels were close to taking control of the government.
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Can we say now it’s obama’s fault? How rediculous that this one loser in life has caused so much turmoil in the world and at home. The shroud of racism has dibilitated us all becuase we allow it
Wahabbi vs Shia ... old story
Yes he’s a loser in life who lives better than any royal king in recorded human history. A Sunni Shi’ite muslim marxist homosexual whose actions result in fewer muslims.
One of Satan’s minions?
We report you decide.
Obama orphans allies, cuddles up to Iran. Perception becomes Iran will be allowed to have nukes.
In a matter of weeks....
Disfunctional Arab League becomes......functional.
Arab military coalition mobilizes.
Issues of Saudis, Egypt, Bahrain, UAE, Sudan, Jordan, Turkey, and to an extent, Pakistan, suddenly align with those of .....Israel.
Palestinian issue goes to the back of the bus.
In attempting to isolate Israel, Obama succeeds in isolating Iran?
Turkey makes abrupt u-turn, begins to make nice with Israel. Others also.
Obama un-freezes armaments and bucks to Egypt’s al-Sisi, AFTER Arab Coalition attacks Iranian interests in Yemen. Hmmm...can’t get my head around that one.
Saudi Arabia admits agreement to allow Israel to use their air space to attack Iran.
Bibi gets the green light to bomb Iranian nuke assets?
Unintended consequences “fundamentally transform” the region.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Muslim slaughtering Muslim...All is well in the world.
Yes, we can rejoice BUT...it will be playing in a theater near you, soon...
That’s the problem. They are at war with all of us, starting with themselves.
As the US-backed Saudi bombing of Yemen enters its second week, more than 500 people — including many civilians — have been killed, what infrastructure existed in the impoverished country has been destroyed, and the ousted president cheers on the destruction of his country within the protective embrace of the country that is bombing his own.
What is less reported in US mainstream media is that one group in Yemen seems to be making out quite well in the US-backed and Saudi-created chaos: al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Yes, al-Qaeda. The group that the US has been droning in Yemen since 2010. The drone strikes that set the population and especially various tribes like the Houthis against the US-accommodating Hadi. The Houthis who had been fighting al-Qaeda in Yemen before they started being bombed by Saudi Arabia. That al-Qaeda.
A Thursday prison raid by al-Qaeda operatives in the port city of Mukalla freed one of their commanders, “emir” Khaled Batarfi. Barfi celebrated his freedom by taking up residence in the abandoned regional governor’s palace as Saudi planes continued to bomb al-Qaeda’s enemy in Yemen, the Houthis. Barfi even used the palace telephone apparently to issue orders to his minions. It must have been hard for him to believe his incredible good luck!
The Saudis are said to have air-dropped weapons to supporters of ousted president, Mansur Hadi, in the battleground port city of Aden. How long before al-Qaeda shows up with these gifts from the Saudis by way of the US military-industrial complex?
So why is the US backing the Saudi attack on its neighbor? It is complicated. According to US government logic, when Yanukovych was chased by a mob from his office in Ukraine, by leaving the country he lost legitimacy. In Yemen, on the other hand, when president Hadi was chased by a mob from his office he retained his legitimacy and Saudi airstrikes were approved and coordinated by the US to put him back in office.
It had something to do with democracy, it was said. However, Hadi was “elected” after overthrowing his predecessor in a coup and standing for office as the only candidate on the ballot. Not surprisingly in the circumstance, he “won” more than 99 percent of the vote. Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was effusive in her praise, claiming the Soviet-style election and inauguration “were promising steps on the path toward a new, democratic chapter in Yemen’s history.”
Yanukovych, in contrast, was elected in a contested election judged to be “free and fair” by international monitoring bodies.
Watching State Department Spokesman Jen Psaki defend these double standards is one of those golden comedy moments that makes you laugh and then cry.
So the US backs Saudi attacks on Yemen in the name of democracy even though neither country is remotely democratic, and even though none except al-Qaeda and the US military-industrial complex seems to be benefitting. Is this incompetence, arrogance, ignorance, or something darker?
But we all know better...
Genesis 16 Verse 11 and 12:
You shall call his name Ishmael,
because the Lord has listened to your affliction.
He shall be a wild donkey of a man,
his hand against everyone
and everyone’s hand against him,
and he shall dwell over against all his kinsmen.”
Genesis 16
11 The angel of the Lord also said to her:
“You are now pregnant
and you will give birth to a son.
You shall name him Ishmael,
for the Lord has heard of your misery.
12 He will be a wild donkey of a man;
his hand will be against everyone
and everyone’s hand against him,
and he will live in hostility
toward all his brothers.”
Concurring bump and well written synopsis.
The world can expect more of the same from the good old USA if Hillary Clinton is elected President.
1) Dar Al Islam
2) Dar Al Hareb
1 = A world where all humanity is Islamic = Garden of Eden.
2 = A world living on the sword of Jihad, until number one can be achieved.
That means that they are in a perpetual state of war with the rest of humanity.
Seems to fit...
Send both sides more weapons.
I would say no
The war in Yemen is the result of old tribal scores being either settled or attempted to be settled. The war is the result of the Brits pulling out way back there .
When the Brits pulled out, North and South Yemen were established and that is the condition being contested again now with Isis, Al Qaeda and Iran and Saudi Arabia thrown in to the mix to make it interesting.
Yanukovich was a hated kleptocrat who was a sock puppet for Herr Putin who ordered his police to murder protestors.
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2014/mar/01/ukraine-haze-propaganda/
And this has less then nothing to do with why we are backing Saudi in Yemen. The Houthis’ are Iranian Shia sock puppets, and it’s not in OUR interests to have them destabilizing a friendly nation and theatening to enable Iran to control 2 of the worlds major chokepoints for oil and commerce.
I feel like I am living in the Bizarro world.
Saudi Arabia and France are fighting terrorism harder than the USA.
That's fine with me. It's about time they put in the money and soldiers to fight. They are closer hence more threatened. Why do we always have to fix the world's problems? Why do our soldiers always have to be the one at risk? Why do we (American taxpayers) have to pay for all the worlds woes?
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