Iran, Yemen Posing Challenges to American Intelligence

No it doesn’t. The intelligent thing to do is stay out of there.

Radson:  Re Greg Mortenson and Cups of Tea:  The original “Three Cups” came across to me as real, an honest and dedicated man’s struggle to belp remote people get what they wanted—help to establish—schools for girls (boys routinely shunted into madrassas and girls getting nothing). He won local cooperation and local efforts throughout; was himself once under a fatwa, later revoked.  He did not peddle any religion and had no connections to the US military. Gradually he and the people there, with contributons from individuals, built 14 simple schools via his Central Asia Institute.  It is unfortunate to my way of thinking that during more recent years his success has blossomed into seeming cooperation with military efforts at least to some extent.  With that I fear for his integrity and that of the schools themselves because I fear the military has latched onto them for “winning hearts” purposes and they will become corrupt and subject to more “westernization” than would otherwise be the case—that is, belong less to the people themselves.  I hope I am wrong, but that is my recent assumption since seeing the second book.

The sexual revolution was a great achievement in the US, and it has nothing to do with “morality.”  Thankfully, not everyone has to remain stuck in loveless marriages in the US, and as a homosexual, no, I don’t think highly of the supposed “moral ground” of any country that executes young boys for expressing their love for each other.  In Iran, boys are also beaten mercilessly, tortured in jails, and shot in the street for being dissidents (anywhere from political expression to being seen holding the hands of a girl.)  Both the US and Iran have scumbag governments; that is for sure, and we should all be free, those of us who don’t speak from unison with the US empire, to critique what we like.

Gerard : Your insistence to promote the,Three Cups of Tea is appreciated ,although I have not read the book I did browse the Web somewhat and had some questions for you assuming that you had read the
book ,if not the revised edition then the original.The concept of educating the children is valiant in itself and is not the first instance historically speaking of such an endeavor ,however I understand that the US and
Allied objective is rather more dubious ,which in my estimate is based more on Assimilation hence the stated fact of the administration that it will more than likely become a rather lengthy War which will require the
assistance of the Afghan Army and Police in order to win the Hearts and Minds of the indigenous people ,but to who’s benefit ,definitely not the resistance fighters and their culture which is clearly at stake .Although
I personally don’t agree with the way that the Afghans live as compared to my own lifestyle with regards to the religious restrictions imposed on the women and the inflexibility of the Imans to consider the evolution
of the religious thought process that all people share within themselves ,I must concur that had I been born in Afghanistan the question would probably not arise.Having said that ,why should the West choose to
convert these people that basically lead a simple life ,which is more or less sustainable in itself yet archaic to our own standards but poses in itself very little negative effects on Mother Earth.

Night -Gaunt I didn’t realize that you had an interest, in my last post ,which was directed to Tao .

Sad question on “Three Cups of Tea”:  Was in a bookstore yesterday and leafed through—note: did not read, just glanced, so could be wrong (which I hope) but—it appears that Mortensen has written a sequel in which the US Forces are heavily involved in building—guess what—schools for girls suddenly increased to several hundred over a very short span of time.)  It appears to me that the original spirit of “Three Cups” has flown far away and been replaced with a much less lauditory, less unselfish motivation connected with—exploitation?  connivance?  indoctrination?

Anyhow, I was dismayed and disappointed.  Hope I’m wrong here, but .... if anybody out there knows, please fill me in.

However John Ellis here is a different perspective on the two countries.

1) Iran has strict church-state gov’t and very strict laws religious based. Enforced with violence including beatings by the religious police of any they find out of order with their Koranic edicts (as they read it) mostly women bear the brunt of it. In the USA we do not have any of that though there are those here trying to get just that. From the Christian Bible. They want a theocracy too in the land of the partially free.

2) Yes we are allowed to let our libido be satiated with pornography so that violence is reduced. Unlike in Iran that is so sexually repressed rape, sex & (which the woman pays for mostly) violence then greater repression exist. Women have a voice here, but not in Iran. [Note there are those who wish to make the USA the western Christian version of Iran.]

3) Legalized pornography in all newspaper, magazines and beauty contests, and if a man or woman is not showing off their curves, their wardrobe is out of fashion. That is a bit overboard isn’t it? An exaggeration unless your definition of “pornography” is like the mullahs or evangelicals then it would be. (We need healthy views of sexuality, not the button up or be beaten hide it because it is bad variety we see all too often.)

Otherwise I agree with the other comments you made.

We are in a transition from a republic to an empire. Right now we are a hybrid of both and it is ill fitting in fact a kluge. We need to discard the empire part before it becomes the only part. It is the theocratic empire builders who have been forcing us away from the best days that could only improve us to the empire days that will pervert us.*

*The growth of the middle class was from 1945-1980, after that it has been down hill and out. Wages have stagnated since the late 1970’s. The Economic Police Institute has found no net job growth since 1999. [They have been lost, or sent over seas.] Counting everyone un/under employed we have had a depression era job market between 17%-22% since at least 2001 with our first “jobless recover” happened. We increase our expenditures in the military/corporate complex every year more and more. Yemen will just be another in the list. Israel is our anchor in the middle east though not our colony it is our protectorate.

To sum up if we don’t do anything to fix this mess others have put us in we will lose what is left of the Republic to a collapse—-then the theocrats will come in to “fix it” for us with their own brand of gov’t.

John Ellis, fine comment, so succinct and yet so illustrative the way you organized it.

So many still fall for the “nuclear initiator” forgeries, even after the London Times (among dozens of other pubs) broke the fact that they were fabrications.

http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49833

“Sanger and Broad were so convinced that the Polonium-210 experiments proved Iran’s interest in a neutron initiator that they referred in their story on the leaked document to both the IAEA reports on the experiments in the late 1980s and the claim by NCRI of continuing Iranian work on such a nuclear trigger.

“What Sanger and Broad failed to report, however, is that the IAEA has acknowledged that it was mistaken in its earlier assessment that the Polonium-210 experiments were related to a neutron initiator

Note that they even name who perpetrated the crime:

“This is not the first time that Giraldi has been tipped off by his intelligence sources on forged documents. Giraldi identified the individual or office responsible for creating the two most notorious forged documents in recent U.S. intelligence history.

“In 2005, Giraldi identified Michael Ledeen, the extreme right-wing former consultant to the National Security Council and the Pentagon, as an author of the fabricated letter purporting to show Iraqi interest in purchasing uranium from Niger. That letter was used by the George W. Bush administration to bolster its false case that Saddam Hussein had an active nuclear weapons programme.

“Giraldi also identified officials in the “Office of Special Plans” who worked under Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith as having forged a letter purportedly written by Hussein’s intelligence director, Tahir Jalail Habbush al-Tikriti, to Hussein himself referring to an Iraqi intelligence operation to arrange for an unidentified shipment from Niger.

What a bunch of creepy, evil spook b*stards we’ve got working “for us”!

Night-Gaunt

Sorry for being obscure. My comment was just an expression of frustration regarding current events. The Tiyoshpaye way is somewhat utopian in the modern world, but that utopian vision seems preferable to the chaos that now envelopes us. 

My comment lacked any real profundity, and it was addressed to Tao Walker and not intended to spark debate.

My Grandfather on my Mother’s side was part Blackfoot (Sihasapa;) thus my reference to a “distant Sihasapa.” “Tashunca-uitco,” is another name for Crazy Horse, which I obtained from Wikipedia. I don’t totally endorse all of Crazy Horses’ actions, the “virtues” I was referring to were his taking a vow of poverty at an early age, and donating the proceeds of his labors to the needy.

“Water markets are already well established in Yemen, ranging from opportunistic tanker sales by well owners to supply schemes for urban communities. Indeed, several towns (e. g. Zabid and Bajil) are wholly supplied by private sector utilities. But markets give no incentives to groundwater conservation. Steps need to be taken to promote the sustainable development of private supply with the concurrent aims of increasing mains access and reducing costs.” Excerpt from “Yemen’s Water Crisis” at http://www.al-bab.com/bys/article/ward01.htm which adds to the problems in the region that are growing. [So many things all happening at once and are all connected.]

Remember the USA knows next to nothing about Afghanistan & Iraq either but it didn’t stop them nor does it now. Destroying the land and the people’s mean nothing to the global planners here in the USA.

The USA (plus some few others) are involved in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan with interests now in Yemen, Somalia, Saudi Arabia and the UAEs. With 878 plus bases overseas in over 100 countries the growing proto-American Holy Empire is just widening its influence to one more poor damaged country. Remember too that for a while Yemen had been split into two countries before rejoining not too long ago. Another is possible.

“From the offspring of a distant Sihasapa, and an admirer of the virtues of Tashunca-uitco...”

Pray elucidate for we non-Indi please, JDmysticDJ? Radison you too should at least give the rest of us what the terms you use mean. Not all comes out in context.

An alternative?  Read “Three Cups of Tea.”  The author can’t get a word in edgewise in Washington, but there are ways to help and wiser tactics to be employed.  Takes guts.  Takes determination and persistence.

(Radson, I conclude that you’re over the top in your last post, however.)

Diedaily, what you say is true, and now Obama is apparently sitting with his hand on the trigger, waiting to bomb a dozen poor villages in Yemen as “revenge,” for holding up a flight; he will kill more people and make more enemies.

When will the Wichmunga learn that the extreme capitalist system is actually destroying the Living Arrangement of us all ,is there a possibility that the Pejuta Winyan can yet cleanse
the hearts and minds of the End of Worlders and their clique of money sucking greedy raquetteers.Maka cannot sustain such blatant abuse for much longer,considering the ability of
Mother Earth to maintain and sustain the inhabitants due to the overwhelming exploitation ,which in itself is approaching a mathematical certainty,where the poor are more than likely to become the
recipients of a cheap death due to their predicament.WI beams the Earth from afar but will Niya control the beams of heat as desertification and desolation spreads,which to a large part is due to Mammon,which
in itself was never the Tiyoshpaye way.Finally will the Wagluhe awake from the mind altering poison spread by the propagandist before it’s too late .

Bonne et Heureuse Année TAO

Hoka

TAO Walker’s messages come as a healing, and I really appreciate the spirit living in his words. A cleansing medicine for our preoccoupations with “revenge” and “fight” and “terrorism!”

Another medicine:  Read “Three Cups of Tea,” as mentioned earlier.  And help promote a positive change in policy by insisting on an end to wars and to using war as a profit-making employment agency that keeps youhg people busy killing their own buddies as well as their young “enemies.”  No damage is “collateral”.  It’s all personal, intimate, calclulated, cruel and—avoidable.

Tao Walker

“From where the Sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.”

The Tiyoshpaye way can only be preferable to the ways put forth by my “tame brothers and sisters.”

From the offspring of a distant Sihasapa, and an admirer of the virtues of Tashunca-uitco;

Hokahey

Exactly lichen. Imaging Mexico bombed the snot out of Texas and killed 23 of our kids. What would we do to Mexico? But noooooo, brown people are NEVER allowed to defend themselves. If they do, they’re terrorists. (???wtf???) They should accept our freedom bombs with open arms and joy and rose petals for the indescriminate DU rounds of our brave freedom troopers. That is the brilliant logic of our gummint. Can we citizens transcend this racist logic of Obamas?

YES WE CAN!

Why shouldn’t the people of Yemen (as opposed to their traitorous government) want to seek revenge for the murderous bombing that stole the lives of 23 children recently?

December 29, 2009

CIA Determines Documents Were Fabricated

The Iranian Nuke Forgeries

By GARETH PORTER

“U.S. intelligence has concluded that the document published recently by the Times of London, which purportedly describes an Iranian plan to do experiments on what the newspaper described as a “neutron initiator” for an atomic weapon, is a fabrication, according to a former Central Intelligence Agency official.

Philip Giraldi, who was a CIA counterterrorism official from 1976 to 1992, told me that intelligence sources say that the United States had nothing to do with forging the document, and that Israel is the primary suspect. The sources do not rule out a British role in the fabrication, however.

The Times of London story published Dec. 14 did not identify the source of the document. But it quoted “an Asian intelligence source” - a term some news media have used for Israeli intelligence officials - as confirming that his government believes Iran was working on a neutron initiator as recently as 2007.

The story of the purported Iranian document prompted a new round of expressions of U.S. and European support for tougher sanctions against Iran and reminders of Israel’s threats to attack Iranian nuclear programme targets if diplomacy fails.

U.S. news media reporting has left the impression that U.S. intelligence analysts have not made up their mind about the document’s authenticity, although it has been widely reported that they have now had a full year to assess the issue.

Giraldi’s intelligence sources did not reveal all the reasons that led analysts to conclude that the purported Iran document had been fabricated by a foreign intelligence agency. But their suspicions of fraud were prompted in part by the source of the story, according to Giraldi.

“The Rupert Murdoch chain has been used extensively to publish false intelligence from the Israelis and occasionally from the British government,” Giraldi said.

The Times is part of a Murdoch publishing empire that includes the Sunday Times, Fox News and the New York Post. All Murdoch-owned news media report on Iran with an aggressively pro-Israeli slant.

The document itself also had a number of red flags suggesting possible or likely fraud.

The subject of the two-page document which the Times published in English translation would be highly classified under any state’s security system. Yet there is no confidentiality marking on the document, as can be seen from the photograph of the Farsi-language original published by the Times.”

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Click on link for the rest of article:

http://www.counterpunch.org/porter12292009.html

There are likely other forty-somethings with families where gerard lives-and-breathes everyday….not to mention the usual spectrum of youngsters and oldsters generally present-and-accounted-for just about everywhere.  It is also likely their habitat is sorely in-need of some precious Human attention and unconditional respect.

So the necessary potential elements for regenerating The Tiyoshpaye Way are likely also in-place.  What’s lacking, however, is probably the necessary grasp of the plain biological fact that two-leggeds who help their selfs are cut-off from their Natural support system in All Our Relations here in the Living Arrangment of our Mother Earth.  Human “individuls” do not in-fact occur and are not are not viable in Nature, nor are “nuclear” families, and so they are compelled to try forcing from Her what is given freely to Human Beings abiding within the integrity of our Organic Form and Function….call the first, in English, Genuine Living Human Community; the second, Active Components in Her natural immune system.

There’s no use running, and certainly nowhere to hide.  The “escape” that’s needed is from the smothering illusions of “individual”-ity, which set the domesticated peoples up for their tormentors’  rule-of-fear….lately metasticized again into one of its regular reigns-of-terror.  What gerard is looking for is still alive (if maybe not right now so “well”) in his own essential Humanity….and that of his proximate friends and neighbors, of course. 

Otherwise, it’s is nowhere at all.     

HokHey!

Iran and Yemen are not the only ones questioning American intelligence.  So am I, and I have been questioning it for some time now.  What’s intelligent about depending on wars to keep your economy going?  What’s intelligent about killing young people by giving them jobs to fight each other instead of an honest life work they can pursue to benefit and improve the world?  What’s intelligent about hiding these facts from your people and pretending to chase a handful of crazies in the mountains of a land thousands of miles away?  What’s intelligent about refusng to do the things that bring peace and understanding and continuing to do the things that aggravate tense situations and fuse hatred and revenge?  Answer:  Look to the roots of the problem—using war to make as much profit as possible as quickly as possible and the devil take the victims.  It’s the economic system, stupid.  If you want your kids to live to grow up, change it.

This latest botched terrorist attempt should come as no surprise to most of you ,after all most amongst you did listen to President Obama’ West Point Speech.In his speech Pres. Obama did say that the US would
chase down the bad guys were ever they were hiding and he specifically mentioned YEMEN and Somalia also the Pres. mentioned that further funding for the Homeland -security corporations - would continue .President Obama’ latest sermon,eventually will attest to the obvious holes in the security apparatus which will in turn require further modifications in order to keep all you posters safe but that will require
billions of dollars of upgrades at the airports in the US and among her Allies mainly in Europe and Canada.The Israeli and US security company’s are going to have one Hell of a new years bash and were not
invited.

Nevertheless Happy New years Truthdiggers.

Taowalker:  Specifics, specifics.  Build the bridge.  Suppose I am an ordinary but bright-enough guy.  I have a wife and two kids aged 2 and 4.  I have a job and am paying for a house and a car.  I work 40 hours a week.  We are just barely getting by.  How do I get from here to there?  Are you expecting me to pack up my family, get in my car and drive north, south, east, west?  And, and, and ....

I sense something better in what you say ... a place?  Or a state of mind?  What, where, how?

The wannabe overlords (‘n their “ladies”) are working from a script,  selected parts of which are systematically parceled-out to their papered professional media flaks on a strictly need-to-know basis.  “....your huddled masses” are kept carefully in-the-dark, except for the intentionally disorienting “strobe-lighting” that is the hallmark of the captive media’s crisis dujour “coverage,” here in the terminal (“global” feedlot) phase of the “civilization” CONtraption’s devastating career, triggering a kind of epidemic virtual seizure-disorder among the various herds of homo domesticus.

Meantime, William Pfaff and his still relatively comfortable colleagues are nearing that point in the process where they will be of no further use to their “sponsors,” and so abandoned to the tender mercies of the rootless mobs they’ve been so instrumental in leading so terribly astray.  Theirs are not moccasins this old unreCONstructed Savage would willingly walk even a step in….nevermind that “green-mile” they’re already a long ways down today.

There is another Way, tame Sisters and Brothers.

HokaHey!

“In a media universe where you’re likely to find right-wing conservatives on ABC, Fox, or NPR, the facts don’t matter; only the framing. And in the hands of biased pundits posing as objective journalists, the framing is always going to be the same: promilitary, pro-government, and pro-war.”
(David Potorti)

“The biggest political joke in America is that we have a liberal press. It’s a joke taken seriously by a surprisingly large number of people… The myth of the liberal press has served as a political weapon for conservative and right-wing forces eager to discourage critical coverage of government and corporate power ... Americans now have the worst of both worlds: a press that, at best, parrots the pronouncements of the powerful and, at worst, encourages people to be stupid with pseudo-news that illuminates nothing but the bottom line.”
(Mark Hertzgaard)

“The problem the United States faces is that almost all of its invasions violate international law, and sometimes, as in the case of Iraq, in a blatant manner. So how do the political elite and the news media reconcile this contradiction? Simple: They ignore it. It is virtually unthinkable for a mainstream U.S. reporter to even pursue this issue.”
(John Nichols and Robert McChesney)

“The real threat to U.S. military power is nuclear proliferation, because if every little country has nuclear weapons it becomes very tricky for the United States to engage in military action.”
(Immanuel Wallerstein)

“The United States has no tradition of subordinating itself to international treaty-based law, and it has no interest in a world order in which military force becomes operational only as a last resort.”
(Peter Gowan)

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
(Joseph Goebbels, German Minister of Propaganda, 1933-1945)

“With each newly minted crisis, US leaders roll out the same time-tested scenario. They start demonizing a foreign leader ... charging them with being communistic or otherwise dictatorial, dangerously aggressive, power hungry, genocidal, given to terrorism or drug trafficking, ready to deny us access to vital resources, harboring weapons of mass destruction, or just inexplicably “anti-American” and “anti-West.” Lacking any information to the contrary, the frightened public ... are swept along.”
(Michael Parenti)

“There have been times, living in America of late, when it seemed I was back in the Communist Moscow I left a dozen years ago. Switch to cable TV and reporters breathlessly relay the latest wisdom from the usual unnamed ‘senior administration officials… Everyone, it seems, is on-side and on-message. Just like it used to be when the hammer and sickle flew over the Kremlin.”
(Rupert Cornwell in the London-based Independent newspaper)

“Who needs censorship when we have self-censorship. When news is being withheld, or neutralized, at best, how can we expect anything but cynicism from those who read our daily papers? Maybe the reason many aren’t buying newspapers isn’t that they can get information for free on the Internet, but because they don’t believe what they read, and how can they?”
(Jane Lyn Stahl)

Oh for pf*ck’s sake Truthdig, spare us any more of the pfulminations of the pf*ckwit Pfaff whose “dollar each way” puff pieces are starting to get on my tits.
We know what’s going on.

hello. war is hell, and this is not war. you may be
correct, conditions are inhumane in Iran and Yemen,
and similarly in the upcoming long, continuing list
of invade able countries. it is a military
information network making it newsworthy, and
necessary to sell weapons. we know our military is
extended now, and not getting involved anywhere else,
so this has to be more distraction. have you noticed
the countdown to the loss of the space station? the
military needs all the money. our infrastructure
bridges are falling down. eventually it will be safer
to drive in other countries working for our military.
let them kill each other, we do not need to be
involved. let someone attack us, and then we can
fight. i do not mean solo recruits, from whom knows
where. i mean an organised, legitimate, bold and
accomplished, strong force of fighting soldiers-
proud of what they are doing: no phony enemy.
overkill skirmishes in wastelands are wasting too
much money and American lives (unfortunately many
more Americans are surviving- maimed for life). we
need to shift our economic trump card away from
military spending. electric automobiles, new energy
technologies, everything developed from intelligence
gained in space: can be welcomed ahead of choosing
mass murder by military conflict abroad. warmongers
are insane. now that he joined them, he ought to
return the peace prize. green recovery may require
planting seeds in gun barrels.

Iran, Yemen Posing Challenges to American Intelligence
Posted on Dec 29, 2009
By William Pfaff

It’s no challenge to American Intelligence since
everything is going according to plans & is being cheer
leadered by the mainstream media as it sells the new
lies to the numbed & dumbed down American masses. Yes
indeed, everything is going according to plans by the
MILITARY INDUSTRIAL CONSPIRACY & the NEW WORLD ORDER:ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT miscreants & expedited by Bush3.
And just think how many lives & real estate weren’t sacrificed in NYC this time.

Pretty good report. “While the government of Iran reels under the continuing pressures of popular uprising” is a bit of a laugh, but all in all pretty good. We’re a little too scared of Iran to hit them directly, so instead we’ll kill a whole bunch of Shias in neighboring states. Everyone getting that yet?

hey pfaff…

the msm hinted at a stolen election, but it does not make it so.

now it you want yo see a real theft, look at 2000 and 2004…

remember msm telling us bush really won even though if you dug it was incontrovertible that he didn’t…  “red is really blue, war is peace, ignorance is bliss”.  Which side were you on?

Iran’s election was NOT stolen, western and zionist intel pumped their propaganda machine, without any proof ever, just innuendo.

and that becomes a fact in your book?

a bit one sided pfaff?

what about honduras?  The orebama coup plotters puppets and election riggers are assassinating folks left and right right now…

and yet not a word or article on that ever?

Bah, you’re not even worth commenting on.

I think this is a good analysis but Americans continue to fail seeing the Iran situation with clear eyes. Can we really call the current protests a full “popular uprising” yet? I know in America we hate to discuss issues like “class warfare” or “class distinctions,” but the situation in Iran is divided among classic class lines. The Green movement has justified demands, but it has not been able to win over the poor or working class masses, which is what any true revolution needs to win. Love him or hate him, Ahmadinejad still commands the loyatly of a large segment of the urban poor, as seen in today’s big rallies (unreported by the West of course). Until the Greens present a real political platform, and not just marches, the standoff will continue, maybe end in a bloodbath, and Israel will be closer to igniting another war.

isn’t it amazing…

as soon as we want to hit some new country…

magically some western educated native from that target country initiates some kind of unsucessful (what luck) terrorism…

giving use the excuse that we are the victims when in fact the us is the war ciminal comitting crimes against humanity, civilians, women, children ,etc…

so…

I tell you… it seems there’s more western educated and lifestyle living folks in al quada than regular turban wearing, camel riding terrorist stereotypes, religious fanatics, etc…

Although perhaps that makes plenty of sense don’t it?

this is getting pretty transparent…

Memo to cia:  C’mon you got to let some of these ‘merican civilians actually fry…  this is becoming farcical, these false flag events must give us chills, we must see them suffer and fry live on TV. Otherwise it’s a waste and ineffective.

It’s endless: Here’s the substance of a request that might come to us from Yemen any day now:  “We have a couple hundred or so terrorists here in Yemen.  Please send money.  Send military equipment.  Send training for our police.  We cannot afford to train them.  The average pay of nearly 20% of our population is $1.25 per day or less. Our oil supply is rapidly depleting.  Our birthrate is high and our system of education is poor.
  “Since 2004, a civil war is being fought in Northern Yemen between Yemeni forces and Shiite Houthi rebels. In 2009, it spilled over into the neighbouring border region of Saudi Arabia. This conflict is increasingly becoming a danger to regional stability according to news reports by CNN [24] and the BBC [25] as various countries are said to be involved, e.g. Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan [26]. The United Nations [27] and UNDP Yemen [28] report about a growing problem of civilians fleeing from the region.” (This paragraph quoted from wikipedia)
“We have only 3 doctors per 10,000 people, and children die from diseases for which vaccines and medicines could be available but are not.  Please send money for training and developing our military sector so we can help you fight terrorism.”
  See any connection between how our “war on terror” feeds our military-industrial complex and answers our unemployment problems, and the “war on terror” abroad enables other countries to get financial support from us for their employment needs, building up their military to “fight terrorism.”? 
  Question: How can this mutually beneficial relationship from one war to the next be unhitched?  Answer: Read “Three Cups of Tea” immediately.