Given what a prominent role “Terrorism” plays in our political discourse, it’s striking how little attention is paid to American actions which have the most significant impact on that problem. In addition to our occupation of Iraq, war escalation in Afghanistan, and secret bombings in Pakistan, President Obama late last week ordered cruise missile attacks on two locations in Yemen, which “U.S. officials” say were “suspected Al Qaeda hideouts.” The main target of the attacks, Al Qaeda member Qasim al Rim, was not among those killed, but: “a local Yemeni official said on Sunday that 49 civilians, among them 23 children and 17 women, were killed in air strikes against Al-Qaeda, which he said were carried out ‘indiscriminately’.” Media reports across the Muslim world — though, not of course, within the U.S. — are highlighting the dead civilians from the U.S. strike (one account from an official Iranian outlet began: “U.S. Nobel Peace Prize laureate President Barack Obama has signed the order for a recent military strike on Yemen in which scores of civilians, including children, have been killed, a report says”). read more
It’s about you. Comments are supposed to be at least plausibly related to the topic of the post. Yours obviously was not. Perhaps you meant to post it elsewhere. It certainly doesn’t belong here.
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…at least for this thread. You’ve posted your own diaries in the past so you obviously know how. What you’ve done is like attaching non-germane amendments to legislation, and neither is cool, IMO.
and how Coakley’s policy position change in her Senate campaign is not a flip flop?
It’s about you. Comments are supposed to be at least plausibly related to the topic of the post. Yours obviously was not. Perhaps you meant to post it elsewhere. It certainly doesn’t belong here.
…at least for this thread. You’ve posted your own diaries in the past so you obviously know how. What you’ve done is like attaching non-germane amendments to legislation, and neither is cool, IMO.