Posts Tagged ‘al-qaida’
The recent attack by al-Qaida on an American airliner seemingly caught the Obama Adminstration with it’s proverbial pants down in the public relations sense. Images of Obama enjoying his Hawaiian vacation as his cabinet secretaries and political aides responded (tardily, in my view) to logical Republican comments and concerns regarding national security and the global war against al-Qaida.
Will the U.S. respond militarily to this al-Qaida attack? Despite his recent award of the Nobel Peace Prize, President Obama will most likely decide he MUST respond with some sort of overt move on al-Qaida in Yemen. Covert action will not placate the Republicans who have seized the public debate on this issue, and, after sending General Petreaus to visit with the Yemeni president, the world is also expecting some type of overt U.S. action on Yemen.
For more information on Yemen’s recent history and the wars being fought there, see http://www.historyguy.com/yemen_history_wars_politics.htm