Barely Mentioned in the News

[KeithE]

[Jim]

Counting the pork-amendment- and cloture-elements, the whole population could die by the time the Senate could act on anything. Anyhow, the evil republicans might bring up the subject of the USS Cole, thus more gridlock.

[KeithE]

[Jim]

[Sandy]

[KeithE]

[Jim]

K: Are you supporting the Saudis in what is essentially a Yemenese civil war?
There's no civil war in Yemen. There was until Saleh quit his dictatorship and quit the government. Obama told him to do so back in the glorious April Uprising days but that's not why he left, although he may have thought the paper-tiger would actually send help to the insurrectionists (like in Syria...remember the red lines). The Big O decimated Libya, which had a population half the size of the Big Apple's (or something like that) but only 76,000 troops, which could have been annihilated by the NYC Police Department. The “war” in Yemen is strictly religious, if Islam can be called a religion—the Sunnis vs. the Shiites, a minority. The fat princes back the Sunnis (and the U.S., as in Iraq, Syria, Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Shiites can hope for help from the Iranian ayatollah, if any. So...Muslims are killing Muslims, with an occasional missionary thrown in.

[KeithE]

[Sandy]

Notwithstanding Jim's hyper-exaggeration of Obama's involvement in the Middle East, the Saudis have a lot to do with what happens on the Arabian peninsula. I have a hard time buying the argument that "US Interests" require the kind of military and financial support that has involved us in so many conflicts in the region. That includes Israel.

[Dave Roberts]

[Jim]

[KeithE]

[KeithE]

[KeithE]