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Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Yemen Drone Strikes

The news this morning is that America is evacuating all non-essential personnel from Yemen and warning its citizens to leave that country.  The warning comes together with reports that drone strikes killed four members of AQAP in the last few days.  To be clear, none of the terrorists killed by the drones were the ones about whom the prior warnings and embassy closures were directed.

It seems to me that Washington and president Obama in particular have lost it.  Is there a threat against the American installations in Sana, the Yemeni capital?  I don't know.  We just know that Washington says it is time for the folks working there to leave if they are not "essential".  Think about it.  We know from the government that they intercepted communications between al Zawahiri and the head of AQAP.  That means that Obama does not think that protecting our information or out sources is important.  So why is there no news about threats to the American embassy in Yemen?  We also know from Obama that al Qaeda is on the run, right?  Remember the campaign?  Al Qaeda is decimated and bin Laden is dead!

Some day the folks in the White House will have to come to understand that the world does not respond to political lies told in the USA.  They don't care about those lies.  The truth, however, is that eventually the American people will care about the lies.  We are stuck with Obama for more than another three years.  He is just about totally tuned out now by the majority of the country.  If he keeps going this way for another three months, no one except the zealots who watch MSNBC will pay him any attention.  That will leave us leaderless for three perilous years with only fools in charge.  I just hope that they don't panic over some other alert and order the evacuation of New Jersey.




 

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