Posted on 05/02/2015 6:41:38 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The Wall Street Journal, citing a State Department official, reports that any evacuation point designated in a country where an Al Qaeda affiliate is active and an unstable security picture puts Americans and any U.S. military assets involved at risk.
Instead, State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf has pointed to an online system where Americans stranded in Yemen can register to receive updates on opportunities to leave the country. The department has also talked to other countries about Americans joining their rescue missions, she said.
The decision of saving Americans puts U.S. authorities in a tight spot. They must choose between rescuing Americans abroad or becoming a target for armed groups, including an Al Qaeda branch and anti-American Houthi rebels.
Usually, the journal says, the U.S. evacuates citizens when commercial methods of transport are cut off. However, the State Department made clear that no such operation was in the works for Yemen, where airports have been bombed and seaports are closed to commercial traffic.
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Hope you never get in any trouble any where while the Obama Admin is still around
This from the twit that told us Yemen policy was a success.
Still more Obama chickensh*t.
OMG !
Maybe the French will step in and help them.
How does one get “stranded” in Yemen? I am assuming that any American there is there of his own free will. It is not the government’s business to bail out citizens when the results of their choices go wrong.
The exception would be a sudden catastrophic change that could not be foreseen; that is not the case with Yemen.
Hillary Clinton was running guns in Libya.
John Kerry is trying to organize a nice charter tour of Yemen.
Democrats.....really good at stealing, not so good at anything else.
From Bloombergview:
...Desperate Yemeni-Americans are taking any offer they can get to leave.
The number of Americans still in Yemen is unclear. A 2010 embassy inspection report placed the number of American citizens in the country at 55,000, but Ayoub said the State Department now believes there are between 4,000 and 5,000 remaining. It would not be new ground for the department, which led an evacuation of 15,000 U.S. citizens from Lebanon in the summer of 2006, with Pentagon assistance.
But the State Department won’t engage Arab-American leaders on the issue, and groups including the ADC, the Council on American Islamic Relations and Asian Americans Advancing Justice have taken matters into their own hands. They filed two lawsuits against the State and Defense Departments to compel them to get Americans out of Yemen...
Ever noticed that Yemen rhymes with lemon? Is there a connection there?
So Obama’s just going to have the drones kill them.
Why in the world would anyone want to become an American citizen ? Our government will abandon you in a foreign nation. It will demand the domestic police force fail to protect you. Our government will allow non citizens to vote and receive aid. It will punish legal immigrants and reward illegal immigrants. It has one of the highest captial gains taxes in the world. And our government has amassed the highest debt load in world history. Time for the states to take back their destinies.
I’m all in favor of America turning the entire country into Yemen-ade.
In the old days there would be a Marine Battalion Landing Team offshore with a Marine team ashore evacuating American citizens...
Todays limp wristed “leaders” haven’t got the stones to let the real men of this country do their duty......
For at least 80 years the Dept. of State has had waaaaaayyy too much influence in what should be military assessments.
They wont evacuate americans out of yemen, but they’ll evacuate central americans out of central america.
The Democrat Party Motto - “Anything To Hurt America”
In obamaworld it’s hard to distinguish satire from reality.
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