Obama Administration Prepares Public Opinion for Attack on Yemen
Five days after the unsuccessful attempt by a Nigerian student to set off a bomb aboard a Detroit-bound passenger jet, US military and intelligence officials are said to be preparing expanded military action against targets in Yemen, the Arab country where the student allegedly received terrorist training and was equipped with an explosive device.
A series of US media reports suggest that new US-backed military attacks inside Yemen are imminent. Citing “two senior US officials,” CNN reported: “The US and Yemen are now looking at fresh targets for a potential retaliation strike.”
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Yemen: Pentagon's War On The Arabian Peninsula
Yemen will become a battleground for a proxy war between the United States and Saudi Arabia - whose state-to-state relations are among the strongest and most durable of the entire post-World War II era - on one hand and Iran on the other.
It is perhaps impossible to determine the exact moment at which a U.S.- supported self-professed holy warrior - trained to perpetrate acts of urban terrorism and to shoot down civilian airliners - ceases to be a freedom fighter and becomes a terrorist. But a safe assumption is that it occurs when he is no longer of use to Washington. A terrorist who serves American interests is a freedom fighter; a freedom fighter who doesn't is a terrorist.
Yemenis are the latest to learn the Pentagon's and the White House's law of the jungle. Along with Iraq and Afghanistan which counterinsurgency specialist Stanley McChrystal used to perfect his techniques, Yemen is joining the ranks of other nations where the Pentagon is engaged in that variety of warfare, fraught with civilian massacres and other forms of so-called collateral damage: Colombia, Mali, Pakistan, the Philippines, Somalia and Uganda.
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so, the lucrative business of weapons sale for 'both' sides of various world conflicts continues - nowadays it is trendy to blame islamic terrorists and thus justify involvement in retaliatory attacks against them (or their supposed allies)
it is logical to expect a continuing series of conflicts with substantial usa involvement in most (if not all) of them - the sad fact is that they managed to involve other countries (nato countries like in afghanistan) to support them in these deranged military worldwide abuses, exploiting local dictatorship (and militant groups) ambitions to keep conflicts alive or ever-erupting, and in such scenarios making nice profits from it
the question is will the nato countries finally awaken and refuse to cooperate in such actions?
and also will the usa citizens finally get fed up with constant foreign involvement in various conflicts and refuse to send any more soldiers overseas, at the same time demanding the return of already deployed ones?
it is estimated that military expenses of just one year could alone finance decades of all UN programs
Funding death and destruction under the guise of security and maintaining sovereignty has become the world’s leading industry, and is among the highest expenses in terms of government expenditure.
The facts regarding the obscene amounts the world spends on the military are available everywhere and yet in all the UN reports on financing the MDGs and implementing the MC, the words military or defense are not even mentioned. This $1339 billion is like the elephant in the room – everyone knows it is there, though no one talks about it. While policy makers and economists scurry to find ‘innovative’ and different ways to finance development, everyone pretends this $1339 billion does not exist.
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