"Um, they're just, like, looking for jobs or something, OK? You conservatives just can't understand the nuance of what I'm saying! Geez!"
Posted on 04/22/2015 10:09:50 AM PDT by mulder1
The facts are the facts. A US carrier battle group does whatever it is ordered to do. Who is gonna stop it ? So we must assume it successfully completed its mission. The result of which appears to be the safe docking of Iranian warships. The Houtis are enemies of Al Qeada and ISIS so not far fetched that they are allies in that fight in Yemen. The crooks running DC are just playing both sides of the coin.
Don't think they've docked, yet.
Do you realize you're suggesting we are militarily taking the side of Iran against our regional allies? Even Carter didn't do that.
An outrageous thing to say, think I suggested the same thing yesterday on another thread.
I'm not privy to what's going on, but if the ships dock without Saudi/Egyptian interference, the world will believe we backed our allies down. With military force. Hope that's not what's happening.
Yes, well I’ve got a lot of confidence in Obama’s ability to screw things up across the board.
the decision has been made to disregard Obama. The way forward has been decided.( a dissed black man with with no respect is the Obama legacy)
You left out Jordan
What would have had the US Navy do? Get into a shooting war to support the Saudis? I think not. Anyway, about ten minutes after we start shooting, the missiles would hit the Kingdom’s oil harbors. What would THAT do to our economy.
Yemen is not our problem. If the KSA wants to go in there, have at it. And it seems they do.
The whole thing is about to blow up. I don’t see where we need to START it.
It is a four way cluster puck. Arabs against Persians against Terrorists against Israel. Arabs and Persians are both fighting the Al Qeada and ISIS terrorists. Russia just named ISIS their number one enemy. So US forces are supporting both the Arabs and the Persians. Hey, that is the genuis of allowing the country to be run by a community organizer.
commie-unity organizer.
Putin’s certainly watching and so is China....
You know what's ironic? We should be on the same side with Iran on many issues. We should be helping Iran back that brutal SOB in Syria who goes by the name of Assad. That dude is a secular strongman who protects the Christians.
Oh, Iran is supporting the Iraqi government against the ISIS. Yeah, we hate those guys too.
What else? The Houtis' greatest enemy is Al Qaeda and ISIS. So why aren't we bff with Iran right now?
Well that is probably what Val Jar is whispering into Obama’s teleprompter. Unfortunately Iran also supportd Hezbollah and caused the loss of numerous US troops in Iraq. Not to mention they want nukes and call the US and Israel Satan and vow to destroy us both. Iran was an ally until it was overtaken by religious zealots during Carters last years. The Arabs can live without nukes if the Persians do not get them. Unless of course you believe the tinfoil theories that the recent massive mushroom cloud like explosion in Yemen a couple days ago was a Saudi tactical nuke.
If the Iranians would like to have their navy kill muslims in Yemen, we should stay out of the way. How can this be bad?
Maybe the muslims in Yemen kill some Iranians or sink their ships.
Seems like a win-win no matter what happens.
So now our Battle Group is considered Pirates???
Arrrrrrrrghhhhhhh...
Don’t stop him, he’s on a roll...
Dandruff???
Or I hope its sarcopic mange...Yeeeaaahhhh!!!
Dude. He’s going to escort them with our military. That’s what is going to happen. Or assist in their Yemen fight.
AQAP is more interested in destabilizing the KSA. I understand that AQ attacked us, but the fact that almost all of the attackers were from SA tells me something about how SA feels about us as well.
The middle east is a mess. It has been since long before 2001. The US keeps making the same mistakes, over and over. We think that a democracy or republic form of government will work over there. Clearly with their penchant for corruption and tribal BS that is not possible.
We dug ourselves a hole. As Powell said, we broke it—we bought it.
When you dig yourself a hole, the first thing you do to solve the problem is to stop digging.
I think a lot of this is Obama’s fault. But I think getting ourselves into another mess in the middle east is not in our national interest.
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