Those being evacuated are the last American troops stationed in the Arab nation, which is home to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the terrorist group also known as AQAP. The United States closed its embassy in Sanaa last month, after Houthi rebels took over the Yemeni capital. And hundreds of al Qaeda members escaped two Yemeni prisons Thursday and Friday, raising further security questions.
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.
As far as I'm concerned, this is a good thing. Let the barbarians kill each other since it seems that's what they like doing best. We might even see which side is losing, and then give that side some ammo, so they fight each other in perpetuity, and leave us alone.
There's no reason for us to leave SPECOPS in Yemen. There's no reason to be in Yemen at all.
ReplyDelete"He closed his eyes briefly turning back to the years Dr. Brown asked about. Yemen presented a completely different lifestyle than anything Deever experienced up to that point. Everything that crawled in Yemen was toxic. Chiggers and sand fleas were uncomfortable, scorpion venom hurt and the antidote tasted like old burned transmission fluid. Deever brought a case of scorpion anti-venom with him from the Marine Corps, so the stings weren’t fatal. Taken as a whole, the biting, stinging insects were better than the people who lived in the inhospitable shit hole that is modern Yemen. He found Yemen to be a nation of warring tribes who thought they were living in the eleventh century. The people of Yemen struck no sympathetic cord. They lived to fight as they clawed with each other for advantages in life. For sport, they threw their six-year-old sons into human cockfights to defend family honor, as wagers were quietly uttered and dirty currency passed. Every day, the Yemeni people proved themselves to be savage, heartless beasts feeding on each other’s barbarism. They were as sneaky as jackals, cowardly when confronted, hateful and malevolent. " - The Black Scorpions: Outsourced War by LL (available on Kindle)
Yep, that's Yemen. I used to work for the Marine Col that was the lead on the Cole bombing and had a role in the interrogation of the suspects....who all mysteriously escaped custody. I'm not in favor of turning the place into a parking lot. No. They have not suffered enough.
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