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U.N. Staff Flees Yemen As Yemen President Urges Decisive Air War
Middle East exploding and Obama is busy trying to decide between a 5 iron or 6 iron.

Quote:SANAA, Yemen (AFP) — UN staff were evacuated from Yemen’s capital Saturday after a third night of Saudi-led air strikes, as President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi urged his Arab allies to bomb Iranian-backed rebels into submission.

The impoverished and deeply tribal Arabian Peninsula state, on the front line of the US battle against al-Qaeda, is the scene of the latest emerging proxy struggle between Middle East powers.

A Sunni Arab coalition, led by Saudi Arabia and other Gulf monarchies, is battling to avoid having a pro-Iran regime on its doorstep, as Shiite Houthi rebels tighten the noose around Hadi’s southern stronghold Aden.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/un-staff-fl...e-air-war/

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Nero is fiddling as the world burns.
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(03-29-2015 09:16 AM)EagleRockCafe Wrote:  Middle East exploding and Obama is busy trying to decide between a 5 iron or 6 iron.

Quote:SANAA, Yemen (AFP) — UN staff were evacuated from Yemen’s capital Saturday after a third night of Saudi-led air strikes, as President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi urged his Arab allies to bomb Iranian-backed rebels into submission.

The impoverished and deeply tribal Arabian Peninsula state, on the front line of the US battle against al-Qaeda, is the scene of the latest emerging proxy struggle between Middle East powers.

A Sunni Arab coalition, led by Saudi Arabia and other Gulf monarchies, is battling to avoid having a pro-Iran regime on its doorstep, as Shiite Houthi rebels tighten the noose around Hadi’s southern stronghold Aden.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/un-staff-fl...e-air-war/

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Why is Yemen our responsibility? Seriously. If the Saudis and the Iranians wish to fight a proxy war in a third country that is equally awful and where we have little if any strategic or economic interest, why get involved in any significant way?

Why should we really care if Iran's Houthis or Saudis Sunnis win there?

And why is Saudi dominance any better than Iranian dominance?

Obviously, we don't want war. But why is this our problem and not Europe's? Europe imports oil and conducts trade through the Red Sea. We largely don't.

Go play golf Obama. Its much better than committing troops to a land war.
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(03-29-2015 01:16 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  
(03-29-2015 09:16 AM)EagleRockCafe Wrote:  Middle East exploding and Obama is busy trying to decide between a 5 iron or 6 iron.

Quote:SANAA, Yemen (AFP) — UN staff were evacuated from Yemen’s capital Saturday after a third night of Saudi-led air strikes, as President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi urged his Arab allies to bomb Iranian-backed rebels into submission.

The impoverished and deeply tribal Arabian Peninsula state, on the front line of the US battle against al-Qaeda, is the scene of the latest emerging proxy struggle between Middle East powers.

A Sunni Arab coalition, led by Saudi Arabia and other Gulf monarchies, is battling to avoid having a pro-Iran regime on its doorstep, as Shiite Houthi rebels tighten the noose around Hadi’s southern stronghold Aden.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/un-staff-fl...e-air-war/

Iran's Master Plan

Why is Yemen our responsibility? Seriously. If the Saudis and the Iranians wish to fight a proxy war in a third country that is equally awful and where we have little if any strategic or economic interest, why get involved in any significant way?

Why should we really care if Iran's Houthis or Saudis Sunnis win there?

And why is Saudi dominance any better than Iranian dominance?

Obviously, we don't want war. But why is this our problem and not Europe's? Europe imports oil and conducts trade through the Red Sea. We largely don't.

Go play golf Obama. Its much better than committing troops to a land war.

You really are a piece of work. Anything to support Obama. Obama has sided with Iran and now the Arabs don't trust him. The consequences wiil be severe for Obama's actions. Saudi Arabia wants nukes now after seeing Obama cave to the Ayatollah. So you just keep wishing Obama plays golf while the Midfle East explodes. It's call leadership and Obama doesn't have a f'n clue.
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(03-29-2015 01:54 PM)usmbacker Wrote:  
(03-29-2015 01:16 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  
(03-29-2015 09:16 AM)EagleRockCafe Wrote:  Middle East exploding and Obama is busy trying to decide between a 5 iron or 6 iron.

Quote:SANAA, Yemen (AFP) — UN staff were evacuated from Yemen’s capital Saturday after a third night of Saudi-led air strikes, as President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi urged his Arab allies to bomb Iranian-backed rebels into submission.

The impoverished and deeply tribal Arabian Peninsula state, on the front line of the US battle against al-Qaeda, is the scene of the latest emerging proxy struggle between Middle East powers.

A Sunni Arab coalition, led by Saudi Arabia and other Gulf monarchies, is battling to avoid having a pro-Iran regime on its doorstep, as Shiite Houthi rebels tighten the noose around Hadi’s southern stronghold Aden.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/un-staff-fl...e-air-war/

Iran's Master Plan

Why is Yemen our responsibility? Seriously. If the Saudis and the Iranians wish to fight a proxy war in a third country that is equally awful and where we have little if any strategic or economic interest, why get involved in any significant way?

Why should we really care if Iran's Houthis or Saudis Sunnis win there?

And why is Saudi dominance any better than Iranian dominance?

Obviously, we don't want war. But why is this our problem and not Europe's? Europe imports oil and conducts trade through the Red Sea. We largely don't.

Go play golf Obama. Its much better than committing troops to a land war.

You really are a piece of work. Anything to support Obama. Obama has sided with Iran and now the Arabs don't trust him. The consequences wiil be severe for Obama's actions. Saudi Arabia wants nukes now after seeing Obama cave to the Ayatollah. So you just keep wishing Obama plays golf while the Midfle East explodes. It's call leadership and Obama doesn't have a f'n clue.

Saudi Arabia probably already has them. Its not like our existing policy is really doing much to prevent Iran from getting the bomb. They only way to do that would be to INVADE and occupy Iran. We aren't doing that. And everyone knows it. Not because of 'thanks Obama', but because no credible American leader of either party is going to do that.

Why should we side with the Arabs versus the Iranians? And how is reducing sanctions to levels HIGHER than when he came into office siding with the Iranians?

Obama wants out of the region. We don't need their oil. We're not going to stop anyone from getting nuclear weapons. The friggin' Pakistanis have them. Nuclear technology is over 100 years old. You can't keep that under wraps forever.
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Obama may want out of the region, but he's not acting like it. We're getting involved in more places, not fewer.

The ongoing half-assed engagements are the problem. Every one of those has the potential to be another Vietnam. And those are continuing.
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(03-29-2015 02:45 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  Obama may want out of the region, but he's not acting like it. We're getting involved in more places, not fewer.

The ongoing half-assed engagements are the problem. Every one of those has the potential to be another Vietnam. And those are continuing.

Actually, I like his half assed model.

Libya - Not one troop is there. We spent little there.
ISIS - We're making others fight them. We will only get involved in a disaster scenario.
Yemen - We aren't doing much there either. It looks like our aid involves little more than a ship parked in the straights to collect KSA air personnel that bail out.
Syria - No troops.

The Middle East will be a FAR safer and more stable place when every potential dictator, faction, or leader can't run to the US, feed us a bunch of lies and get us to do their bidding.

Its not as satisfying to the conservative macho men as bombing and invading willy-nilly, I suppose. But this policy conserves our resources in order to apply when our interests really are at stake. And it compels our allies to try first.

China and Russia want us bogged down in the Middle East. We no longer need Middle Eastern oil. What's our interest in the region?
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(03-29-2015 02:45 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  Obama may want out of the region, but he's not acting like it. We're getting involved in more places, not fewer.

The ongoing half-assed engagements are the problem. Every one of those has the potential to be another Vietnam. And those are continuing.

Obama needs something foreign policy related thats a success, so that the rock carvers will pull their chisels out and start carving his yolo'ing dufus head on the side of Rushmore. Since everything he has gotten into so far has blown up,I expect hm to get on his knees and blow Iran with the enrichment deal.
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