[DWPittelli]

The Yemen attack violates basic rules of sovereignty. It is an act of war where no war has been declared. It killed people, some of whom who may have been criminals, but who will never now face trial.

First, it is not an act of war against Yemen if Yemen is OK with it.

Second, we are legally at war with al Qaeda and its allies: 1) because they attacked us. 2) because of the Sept 2001 Congressional Resolution; and 3) because of actual combat in several countries with Muslim populations, most notably Afghanistan and the Phillippines.

Third, soldiers are shot in wars, often from too far away to check papers and ask for weapon-surrender. This is of course always true when airplanes shoot at surface targets (and vice versa).

[DWPittelli]

Why "execution" and no arrest? Been there, tried to do that:

Yemeni officials say al-Harethi went into hiding in 2001 after being tipped off that he was wanted for questioning by US investigators in the Cole bombing. Between August and November of last year, al-Harethi spent several months in Hosun al-Jalal, a poor village in Marib – a region of gun-toting tribesmen where government forces venture only with permission of local chiefs.

Al-Harethi lived in the village along with Mohammed Hamdi al-Ahdal, another al-Qaida suspect who is also wanted for the Cole attack. Last December, Yemeni special forces, trained by US instructors, moved into Hosun al-Jalal to search for al-Qaida suspects. In the clash that followed, 18 soldiers and six tribesmen were killed, the government said.

The two al-Qaida suspects got away. Yemen's foreign minister, Abubaker Al-Qirbi, said earlier this year that al-Harethi and al-Ahdal took refuge in the Rub al-Khali or Empty Quarter, the world's largest sand desert which straddles Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Oman and the United Arab Emirates.

[dts32041]

Whoa Guadian, one area at a time, The georgia staging for chechens rebels will get it turn.

[Poohbah]

Living his presidency like Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan

This one's priceless.

[okie01]

"All the world's a battlefield for Mr Bush. The United States of America, 001: licensed to kill.

"Zap! Crunch! So where next for the drones of death?"

Did I miss something? Did The Guardian hire Maureen Dowd?

This certainly reads as if it came straight out of Her Shallowness' word processor...

[facedown]

BTTT for ya!

[mfreddy]

To the author:

Hey dipshit--Yemen has invited us into their country to help expell or exterminate Al Queda forces in their country. They are with us. Are you?

[bfree]

What the hell is the problem with the drones? I think it's an outstanding idea. Only loser liberal whiners feel bad. Tough s!!!

[Cicero]

I hope The Guardian has activated its air defenses.

[Billthedrill]

Well, I'm thinking that WTC was just an itty bitty bit of a violation of our sovereignty, which might be news to the moral paragons of the Red Guardian, but it's still sort of fresh in the national consciousness.

Sovereignty, whether the term applies here or not (and it doesn't, IMHO) is one important principle. But it is not the only pertinent principle. Of equal or greater importance is the principle that terrorists may no longer exploit that restraint to cover their own international operations. The Guardian wishes to invoke international law when it's to our disadvantage, and ignore it when it isn't, siding with murderers when it suits their politics. If the worst thing these most blatant of hypocrites can do is accuse us of hypocrisy, we must be doing all right.

[secretagent]

You covered it. I haven't heard the Yemini government complain.

[freethinkingman]

Yemen has asked us to come and clean up their AlQueda problem, so whats it to you how we do it? Ya big Goof.

But seriously folks, When they start qouting Alexander Herzen, a Russian born socialist-liberal, we should expect this from the gaurdian.

[cavtrooper21]

ping
Remind me again WHY I DON'T GET P!$$ED OFF when I read this kind of spinless drivel spouted by my "fellow" Americans? Tell me that this is just a passing moment of homicidal madness and that my deep desire to beat them into a coma with a dead carp will last only as long as my next cig!
The only excuse that comes to mind for them is that they were too wrapped up in a Ext/white wine fueled steambath group grope on 9/11/01 that they missed the murder of 3000+ civilians by these "now reduced to something resembling road kill" terrorist's buddies.
Tell me PLEASE that this is really a humor page with really bad taste. AAGH!

[Ben Hecks]

Maybe the Yemeni Highway Patrol asked for our help in apprehending a fleeing felon?

[goodnesswins]

Hey....get over it, the DRONE did it.....not a person.....just like "guns" do it... (isn't that what all the lefty's think?)

[ApesForEvolution]

Aren't socialists/communists sweet? They don't want to go to war because people get killed, but we can have airplanes-guided missiles crashed into buildings murdering thousands. We find ways to effectively conduct war without putting troops in harms way whenever possible, and they start whining like stuck pigs. World communists are a waste of resources.

[VaBthang4]

"Or Finsbury Park perhaps?"

Perhaps.

[Angelus Errare]

Anybody else find it funny that the Arab Yemenis are soaking in the praise for working with the US, yet the Euro leftists are aghast with anger that we would even think of such a thing?

[SevenDaysInMay]

The Guardians should change their nappies.

We will not engage in another battle or the Somme, in which the best of Britain perished for stupid generalship.

British utopians may face a terror from the thousqands of muslim illegals now swarming the Isles. Disarmed, innocent British bystanders will only be killed by jihadists, rather than the odd homegrown psychopath.

The USA has a new sheriff in town and he has a hell of a posse. "Peace in our time" is not our style. We will win this bloody war the way wars are won.

VSOB Day is coming.

[doug from upland]

Look, up in sky. It's a bird. It's a plane. No, it's a drone right over the Guardian building>

[river rat]

The "boys" at the Guardian should spend more time playing with themselves in the closet - and leave the real world to the men in charge...

Those clowns at the Guardian are so light in their loafers - that the pennies in them are the only thing keep them on the ground.

Semper Fi