Marshall, December 29 at 3:03 am

Getting less and less subtle as your position becomes less and less tenable. Our troops are in so many nations for one reason and one reason only, to protect our economic interests and not for any such noble purpose as bringing peace, only bringing stability that ensures profit.

By hans-Heinrich Boeker, December 28 at 9:53 pm #
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“Get your troops back to the US and maybe the world will be at peace.”

Yeah maybe, but not likely.  The whole reason we started sending troops abroad
was because the world wasn’t at peace and the war threatened to come to our
shores.  Isolationism is an idealistic fantasy, not an effective foreign policy.  The
trick of course is figuring out where to get involved and where not to.

Get some of those brave Israeli Defense Force guys to help out in Afghanistan.
They can use some of the 2.8 billion dollars of military aid given by USA there
instead of slaughtering Palestinian woman and children while stealing their land.

“The problem is that the involvement of the United States creates sympathy for Al Qaeda. The cooperation is necessary — but there is no doubt that it has an effect for the common man. He sympathizes with Al Qaeda.”

“As if to reaffirm that message, Al Qaeda’s Yemeni affiliate released a statement to Internet sites on Sunday that put strong emphasis on the American role in the recent raids, deriding the Yemeni government for claiming responsibility.”

What’s a poor interloper to do?  Our young people are unemployed, and we are “terrorized.” We go to Yemen to “help” them prevent us from being “terrorized,” but they don’t want us to help them because it makes them get “terrorized” and their (unemployed) young people join the “terrorists”
  Note last sentence:  “The common man sympathizes with Al Qaeda.”  And why might that be?  Because the common man is unemployed too?  And could that be a big part of the entire war scene—wherever, whenever? War is the employer of last resort?

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/let-the-right-one-in/

Isn’t “rana” a frog?

Despite Marshall’s attempts at whitewashing, as well as his distortion of the “stability” of the Yemeni govt., the Yemeni rebellions have been ongoing, in fits and starts, since 1948. Hardly a model of stability except to those ,like Marshall, who care only for poisonous propaganda rather than accurate reportage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Yemen

One might expect, as the “terrorists” battle in that nation slowly gains traction, it is only a matter of time before American troops are there as well. Unless, of course, our own nation regains its sanity and tosses fascists like Marshall on the trashpile where they belong.

The article asks some good questions.

1. What’s the point of sending a hundred thousand troops to Afghanistan if the terrorists can just work out of their vacation caves in Yemen?

A: To control the resources, especially heroine and oil (in that order). To destabilize the region in accordance with Brzezinski’s great game of balkanization and proxy nations / continental wedges. To provide a platform of facilities and ordinance with which to ensure that an energy-transport regional Renaissance that would heavily favour Chine and/or Russia is forestalled.

2. Why do we have to spend billions on Afghanistan if we can suppress terror in Yemen for a lousy $70 million? That’s public radio money. We can find that in the White House couch.

A: The worst catastrophe for the neoliberal globalist plans in the middle east would be a shortage of violent enemies leading to the lack of a rationale for remaining. This is the bottom line. Additionally, Yemen is a plan to further the Shia/Sunni rift and ultimately to export civil war from Afghanistan to Pakistan (and assorted less important neighbors such as Yemen) and Iran. This has nothing to do with terrorism and everything to do with Iran and Pakistan.

3. Before we go raising another proxy army, can we at least try not to bomb people and prop up their abusive dictators?

A: Yes we can! Um, that is if we can get the war-monger Obama impeached. He’s a war criminal now. Where the HELL is the left? Where is the liberal outrage? When did the left become pro-war? These are sick times for the ill left. Let’s get to work liberals. Silence and effeminacy in the face of now over a million murders, OUR MURDERS BY OUR MURDERERS BLESSED AND ANNOINTED BY OUR INTELLECTUAL CLASS, is a foul act of complicity. Get your ass to a peace rally NOW. Burn down what little remains of Obama’s false LEFT COVER NOW! You know that attacks from the right wing only strengthen him. So where are you? Let’s get this marauder of a president out of office before another million are murdered BY US.

We train foreign despot’s troops in our export brand of
counter-terrorism (terrorism by another name) which is
then used to control the entire population. The School
of the Americas needs renaming; The American School of
Terrorist’s Counter-Terrorism.
I wonder how much longer U.S. citizens will be safe
traveling internationally? I wonder how much longer
we’ll be free to post without arrest?
Orwell was a prophet.

Afghanistan, even more than Iraq before it, is America’s version of Spain in the 1930’s.  It’s the testing ground for new weapons and tactics.  Whatever America’s Condor Legion thinks it learns in Afghanistan will be applied elsewhere.  The Cold War against the Soviet Union lasted 45 years.  The so-called Global War on Terror has the potential for lasting much much longer.  It probably won’t because the Afghans will eventually drive us out in a shower of blood and savagery.  At that point the well laid plans of mice and mice, the whole house of cards that is GWOT, will be gone with the wind.

The reason for high spending in Afghanistan is that the government is in danger
of collapse if we leave; a scenario we do NOT want.  Yemen has an established
regime which we back and is not in danger of collapse, so our efforts there
consist of training and arms, not boots on the ground which are far more
expensive.

The real question is how we get the UN to bear more of the Afghanistan burden as
is only fair.