Yemen
Bret L
>> "In yet another example of the workings of the bipartisan wisdom that “Because we must invite the world (it’s unthinkable not to), we therefore must invade the world to be safe,” Washington has responded to Nigerian Underwear Bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s fizzled attempt to blow up a plane headed to Detroit on Christmas by escalating American involvement in Yemen.
Senator Joe Lieberman declaimed, “Iraq was yesterday's war,
Afghanistan is today's war. If we don't act preemptively, Yemen will
be tomorrow's war.”
President Barack Obama sent General David Petraeus to Sana, the
medieval capital city of Yemen, more than 7,000 feet up in the densely
populated but isolated highlands of that remote country, to help
coordinate America’s role in the Yemeni government’s war on its
rebels.
The logic of invite the world, invade the world is simple: Because we
are so helplessly vulnerable to Muslim terrorists flying to the U.S.
and blowing stuff up, we must tighten American hegemony over the
entire Muslim world, even unto the highlands of Yemen, until they
learn to stop resenting us.
The bombings of Muslim countries will continue until Muslim morale
improves!
Yet, before getting bogged down in another high altitude, tribal
Muslim country, one of even more negligible strategic significance
than Afghanistan, perhaps we could step back for a moment and ask: Do
we really have to invite the world? Did we have to wave Umar Farouk
Abdulmutallab onto that Detroit-bound plane with a friendly, non-
discriminatory smile?" <<