Posted on 05/25/2011 11:52:53 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
The State Department has just put this advisory out on twitter: We urge U.S. citizens not to travel to Yemen & U.S. citizens currently in Yemen depart while commercial transport is available. Yemen is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the north, the Red Sea to the west, and Oman to the east.
Yemen is an economic mess. It is the poorest country in the Arab world and has an official unemployment rate of 65%. The government survives off of oil reserves that are expected to be depleted by 2017.
Who is behind the current unrest? It is not completely clear, although it should be noted that control over Yemen's Aden port - the "gate to Asia" - brings huge benefits. Currently those benefits go to the US. And it is interesting that Yemen is next door to Saudi Arabia. The Saudi monarchy certainly doesn't want any changes in the Yemen regime. Saudi Arabia has been supplying troops to help quell the Yemen uprising.
If President Ali Abdullah Saleh resigns and a favorite of the US fills the power vacuum, then if I am Saudi Arabia, I get a bit nervous. Saleh has always played a cagey game and was a close ally of Saddam Hussein. A total US puppet on the border of Saudi Arabia or an anti-US regime on the border is not a positive for the Saudis. Both cause problems for Saudi Arabia, differing problems, but problems for sure.
It sure does but I'd never tell him that. And I'm still laughing at him.
“Arabia Felix” my azz.
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Liberia? Are you sure? I mistook it for Detroit.
My first reaction was to laugh at the flotation vest until I thought a bit and realized the magical thinking behind it. He heard or saw flak vests used for protection and never stopped to think of why they offered some protection, only "vest" lodged as the operative concept in his brain.Nahh, he's "Dressing For Success", for his dream job, "Somali Pirate". Either that, or he's going for tryouts at "Liberia's Got Talent!"
“Yemen” sounds like something a Jamaican would say, which probably means rastafarianism originated there, and paddled across to Ethiopia, probably in search of weed.
And damn, the state dep’t is really on top of things. It’s been two, three months of riots.
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