What is the US doing in Yemen

[malaise]

intensifying airstrikes in Yemen - breaking on Anderson Cooper.
I saw US special forces inside Yemen on BBC earlier today.

[Warren Stupidity]

1. killing furry neers as usual

[inwiththenew]

2. Keeping the military-industrial complex going

Iraq is winding down so Libya and Yemen are going to have to pick up the pace. It is not ideal because we cannot send 150,000 troops in, yet...but it will do.

:sarcasm:

But seriously, I don't know. We are probably killing another one of the score of "high ranking" members of Al Qaeda or some terrorist group.

[ProgressIn2008]

3. War pigs. nt

[Alamuti Lotus]

4. losing, at the moment; and thus, thrashing around blindly

The dictator fled to Saudi Arabia after being targeted by a powerful rival; the US is seeking to avoid a total failure of its bad policies and is encouraging whatever state violence it thinks may stifle the resistance. I expect Saudi/GCC military forces to intervene any day now. (US forces, beyond a few so-called tactical units, are quite unlikely)

[Parker CA]

5. Drones and fighter jets. Weiner has been a great distraction from this as well as other real news.

[humbled_opinion]

6. Bottom line...

The anti-war folks have decided to sit out any and all warfare conducted by the Obama administration. Mabye its because Obama got a Nobel Peace prize who knows but it is kind of strange becuase it gives all the ammunition to the right to call the anti-war protestors unserious and strictly anti-Bush.

The real danger is the entire anti-war message will be uncredible probably when we need it to be most credible.

[malaise]

7. Huh? n/t

[humbled_opinion]

15. I meant marches and protests at the White House

if they are happening they are being supressed by the media or something because I don't see them...

[xiamiam]

10. not this anti war person..im disgusted as we all should be

nobel peace prize my ass..

[Sirveri]

8. Trying to get Zarqawi.

[Shagbark Hickory]

9. Malaise, if you turned off msnBS for 10 minutes and turned on one of the actual news channels

you'd know what is going on.

What cable or satellite provider do you have?

I highly recommend Al Jazeera's english news updates.
Also if you get World Link TV, there is a program called Mosaic, where they compile a bunch of broadcasts from middle eastern news channels and translate them.

There's loads of other channels that talk about what's going on in the world, unforunately none of them are the Lamestream(R) media channels.

[malaise]

12. I watch a lot of AJE

Thanks

[xiamiam]

13. i watch al jazeera online..cant bring myself to ever again watch lamestream..

its a joke..the only way i know about what they focus on is by reading the threads here..its silly..unintelligent and definitely not the news.

[Shagbark Hickory]

14. Me too! I've been trying to get Malaise to join the ranks of the better informed...

albeit less "infotained".

[Horse with no Name]

11. Did I miss Congress authorizing another war?

Or do we have some flimsy backdoor excuse that we belong there or something?

[tekisui]

16. Obama does love his drones. There is no foreign policy issue that they can't solve.