Posted on 03/21/2015 9:15:54 AM PDT by ColdOne
For years, the U.S. military has worked closely with Yemen’s government to go after AQAP, together carrying out numerous attacks like the 2011 drone strike that killed prominent al Qaeda figure Anwar al-Awlaki. And U.S. President Barack Obama has hailed this cooperation as a pillar in his anti-terrorism campaign.
“Yemen has never been a perfect democracy or a island of stability,” Obama said in January, promoting the policy of “partnering and intelligence-sharing with that local government” as the best approach in a bad situation.
“The alternative would be for us to play whack-a-mole every time there is a terrorist actor inside of any given country,” the President said.
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O-loser tips his hand.
He thinks in terms of
“whack-a-mole” instead
of overarching strategy.
The policy of the flakes in the White House have really worked with regard to Yemen. Imagine America in the process of being conquered by the likes of Mexico, Iran and ISIS!
Another Obama victory, for the Muslim Brotherhood.
Many people actually believe that retreat and appeasment is a viable strategy.
Meanwhile, Obama is attending a NCAA basketball game today.
Iran - 5
Obama - 0
This is the way Obama’s “success” ends.
A mini-Afghanistan type of withdrawal after the “nation-building” campaign went a little awry.
And this was supposed to be one of the successes. Perhaps, on some level, Yemen WAS a success.
Failure would be a terrible thing to behold.
Interesting that the administration decides to retreat from this front on the Arabian Peninsula right after Yemen becomes an Iranian proxy.
Whack-a-mole?
dontcha mean
Whack-a-Muzzie-Militant?
2015: The Perfect Arab Storm..
If Yemen is a success Lord help us if we sustain a failure!
Bingo!
I don’t think that’s going to stop the neo-cons from demanding large Pentagon budget increases.
To them 500million is a drop in the bucket.
Purdue University and Valparaiso University both lost yesterday, thus ends my interest in the NCAA tourney.
I was so hoping Valpo, near where I grew up, would beat Maryland. Yes I know the Lutheran’s of Valpo are the Arch-rivals of my Catholic St. Joseph’s of Indiana Puma’s but I still will support an Indiana team.
BINGO
Another domino going down.
Wonder how quickly the Suez Canal will be closed to us?
What Zero does best.
BUGOUT.
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