Yemen
The drum beating is extremely strong from all sectors of the media and political hierarchy about Yemen becoming the new center of Al Qaeda:
Wall Street Journal : Al Qaeda’s Clear Message
NY Times: Obama Seeks to Assure Nation after Bomb Attempt
Council on Foreign Relations: Fraying Yemen’s Terroism Problem
What if any does the nation-state of Yemen have to do with terrorism, nothing, but the population does have separatists movements in the south. Any country can harbor and train a multitude of extremists, and by acting as if they have some sort of base, it makes them seem stronger than they are. It does allow us the cover to aid in crushing a separatist movement in an area where we fund brutal despots (Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Yemen).
The American public thinks that terrorists are capable of actual damage to the U.S., comparable to what damage we have caused in Iraq and Afghanistan. Except these people who we are supposedly at war with (does not follow any definition of real war) do not own tomahawk missles, F-16′s, or drones. They can barely build a bomb correctly, yet we are wasting billions (some would say a trillion dollars) trying to snuff them out.
Can we all just take a step back and admit to ourselves this is all about power. Power has to project itself, it has to seem dominant or it does not feel powerful. We ransacked and pillaged the middle east and central asia projecting our power, and these were the repurcussions. That these miniscule in scale attacks (World Trade Center= roughly 3,000 deaths; War in Iraq= over 300,000 deaths, some reports put it over 1,000,000 deaths many are civilians) show just who is the oppressor and who is the oppressed, because in reality we are the ones that kill, maim, and destroy in such a technological fashion that we accomplish what the terrorists are incapable of doing attempting to fight back.
One guy on a plane who can barely blow up a home-made make-shift bomb is considered a threat. Are we just ignorant, or blind, maybe dumb? Instead of evaluating our actions, we continuously use this us and them dichotomy from hell. This, they are the ‘other’, they hate us because of our freedom bollocks charade. Grow-up, if your dumb enough to believe that, then your dumb enough to believe that we are fighting a war on terror. We are controlling geopolitical interests in order to remain in dominant standing in the world.
We destroyed the economy for war and fake money, and we seem to be continuing down that same line of thinking. Until Americans grow the hell up and start acting like reasonable adults examining all the facts and being critical, we can just watch the slow demise of what was once a great civilization.
