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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
Location: retired
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Western culture is far superior to any other the world has ever know on any level that one wishes to compare.
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Damn right! And West = white! Actually, why the hell are you and I in Korea if it's not to just pillage the resources or control political affairs? And why am I daiting an inferior Asiatic? |
YEAH. Books are just letters and beliefs cute.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/12/18/the_god_fraud |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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Twice in the last couple of days I've seen the following blog recommended for info on Yemen. It does have some interesting articles.
http://islamandinsurgencyinyemen.blogspot.com/
The most interesting comment so far is that if you run into an article anywhere spouting off about Yemen's connection to Osama's family, gear up your skeptic radar. |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 3:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
Twice in the last couple of days I've seen the following blog recommended for info on Yemen. It does have some interesting articles.
http://islamandinsurgencyinyemen.blogspot.com/
The most interesting comment so far is that if you run into an article anywhere spouting off about Yemen's connection to Osama's family, gear up your skeptic radar. |
There is a chance I met one of the writers of that blog (the one that used to write for the Yemen Observer).
Anyway, after reading the first few entries, I have to say you've found an excellent source. Thank you. |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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| Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 8:07 pm Post subject: Re: Yemen is a backwards hole |
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| Actually I reduced the last word in my title from eight letters to four to comply with TOS. |
8 letters. Does that mean you speak British English, then? |
E.B.White's The Elements of Style recommends spelling out numbers below 10 and numeralizing numbers above nine. He is not from Britain. |
Not sure if you misunderstood, or just changed the topic cos you saw an opportunity to be cheeky. I was wondering what the 4 absent letters from the 'reduced' word might be.  |
Oh, now I get it. Its was not what you think, but a product of that area of the body. |
Ah.  |
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desultude
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf
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| Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 9:56 am Post subject: |
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Christ, it didn't take the war party long. I've been watching CNN and the others and they're just all over Yemen (and Nigeria too, but we don't have the balls for that). Here we go again.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/02/20/daily_life_in_yemen
Looks like a pretty country. I had a chance to visit last time I was in UAE but passed. Too bad. It would have been nice to see it before it gets blown to bits and torn apart. |
I feel the same way. I am now living in Oman, and would love to see Yemen before bad things happen.
As for the US, I have seen articles that put the CIA there long ago, and our interests developing over the last year. Saudi Arabia has been running bombing raids into the north (I have not doubt using armaments supplied by the US).
The current leadership has been exploitative and oppressive, and is, of course, not someone the US should be in bed with. But trying to tell the powers that be that they should hang out with that bad boy is about as effective as telling your teenage daughter not to hang out with the neighborhood badboy- it only seems to encourage them.
And, yes, Yemen is a country, not a person, and it consists of a lot of innocent people just trying to survive and get on with their lives. I have Yemenese students, and they are just like my Omani students- sweet and kind and interested in advancing their lives and caring for their families. The hyperbole notwithstanding, in reality most of the Yemenese are just like the rest of us, and don't deserve to become the targets of international animus. |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 10:44 am Post subject: |
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| FYI, it is Yemeni, not Yemenese (just like it isn't Omanese). |
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desultude
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf
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| Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 11:14 am Post subject: |
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| bucheon bum wrote: |
| FYI, it is Yemeni, not Yemenese (just like it isn't Omanese). |
Thanks!  |
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The Happy Warrior
Joined: 10 Feb 2010
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War on Terror: Yemen Edition
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| The U.S. military's Special Operation Forces and the CIA have been positioning surveillance equipment, drones and personnel in Yemen, Djibouti, Kenya and Ethiopia to step up targeting of al Qaeda's Yemen affiliate, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, known as AQAP, and Somalia's al Shabaab�Arabic for The Youth. |
Glenn Greenwald loses it.
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The illogic and propaganda driving this is so familiar because it's what has been driving the American National Security State for the last decade. There is anti-Americanism and radicalism in Yemen; therefore, to solve that problem, we're going to bomb them more with flying killer robots, because nothing helps reduce anti-American sentiments like slaughtering civilians and dropping cluster bombs from the sky. Who could have watched the last decade and have doubts about that brilliant strategic insight? As Yemen expert Gregory Johnson told The Christian Science Monitor in June, after reports of the use of American cluster bombs:
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| It is incredibly dangerous what the US is trying to do in Yemen at the moment because it really fits into AQAP�s broader strategy, in which it says Yemen is not different from Iraq and Afghanistan. They are able to make the argument that Yemen is a legitimate front for jihad. They�ve been making that argument since 2007, but incidents like this are all sort of fodder for their argument. |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 5:10 am Post subject: |
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| Our government is stuck in a 9/11 world. |
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