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The Obama regime ordered the closing of more than 20 embassies and announced a worldwide travel alert for Americans in reaction to intelligence that a "major operation" planned by al Qaeda was in the works. The latest is that this latest terror threat comes from Yemen.
Yemen? That sounds familiar -- oh, yes -- seems Obama has been ordering drone strikes in Yemen to prop up the US dictator their. And oddly enough, the Yemeni people don't like that: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/08/201381141830129979.html
"America’s actions are legal" claimed President Obama in a speech on drones earlier this year. It was the latest in a string of attempts made by his administration to justify covert strikes carried out by the US overseas - in countries including the Arab peninsula’s poorest nation, Yemen.
But back in Yemen’s capital Sanaa, it appears the country’s civil society disagrees. Members of Yemen’s National Dialogue Conference (NDC) - a US-supported initiative which will map out Yemen’s post-Arab Spring future - overwhelmingly voted to criminalise drone strikes in Yemen. The Yemeni people have spoken. Now Presidents Hadi and Obama must listen - for their own sake, as much as that of Yemen.
While it is clear that no leader may lawfully authorise another sovereign to slaughter his own people, the decision to criminalise drones strikes sends a clear warning message to Hadi - if the current practice is to continue, it may well lead to a criminal prosecution.
So the very means that's supposed to be aimed at reducing terror threats is actually increasing them. Drones are the weapons of cowards, and the folks on the receiving end have had enough.
Maybe -- just maybe -- we should consider ending this morally indefensible and counter-productive tactic. Just an idea.
posted by Old Rebel @ Sunday, August 04, 2013
http://lsrebellion.blogspot.com/2013/08/yemen-is-source-of-latest-terror-threat.html
Yemen? That sounds familiar -- oh, yes -- seems Obama has been ordering drone strikes in Yemen to prop up the US dictator their. And oddly enough, the Yemeni people don't like that: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/08/201381141830129979.html
"America’s actions are legal" claimed President Obama in a speech on drones earlier this year. It was the latest in a string of attempts made by his administration to justify covert strikes carried out by the US overseas - in countries including the Arab peninsula’s poorest nation, Yemen.
But back in Yemen’s capital Sanaa, it appears the country’s civil society disagrees. Members of Yemen’s National Dialogue Conference (NDC) - a US-supported initiative which will map out Yemen’s post-Arab Spring future - overwhelmingly voted to criminalise drone strikes in Yemen. The Yemeni people have spoken. Now Presidents Hadi and Obama must listen - for their own sake, as much as that of Yemen.
While it is clear that no leader may lawfully authorise another sovereign to slaughter his own people, the decision to criminalise drones strikes sends a clear warning message to Hadi - if the current practice is to continue, it may well lead to a criminal prosecution.
So the very means that's supposed to be aimed at reducing terror threats is actually increasing them. Drones are the weapons of cowards, and the folks on the receiving end have had enough.
Maybe -- just maybe -- we should consider ending this morally indefensible and counter-productive tactic. Just an idea.
posted by Old Rebel @ Sunday, August 04, 2013
http://lsrebellion.blogspot.com/2013/08/yemen-is-source-of-latest-terror-threat.html
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