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The only question that really puzzles me and probably should puzzle USA citizens is: Why is a USA drone flying in Yemen anyway?

by atmosx 13y ago

rayiner 13y ago
Because Yemen is a failed state and a hotbed of terrorism, and the U.S. believes that it's important for geopolitical stability to keep it in check. There's nothing puzzling about it. This is the way the world has worked for centuries, and how the U.S. has worked since its founding. The great powers intervene in small nations to put out brush fires that could upset the global status quo. It's like the history of Europe from 1500-1945.
- geoka9 13y ago
  > to put out brush fires that could upset the global status quo. I thought we had UN for that?
- vfclists 13y ago
  It is not because Yemen is a failed state which is another bit of nonsensical terminology invented by the genocidal US policy hawks. It is a failed state primarily because it has corrupt leadership that is willing to take bribes from the US government and their armaments companies to engage in extra judicial killings of their citizens.
  - rayiner 13y ago
    States exist to preserve internal security and impose the rule of law. Neither of these things exist in Yemen. It's a failed state by definition. As for how it got that way, it has nothing to do with the U.S. It's the result of the civil war in the 1990s.
    - vfclists 13y ago
      The Soviet state murdered 30 million of its 'own' citizens between its establishment and the onset of the 2nd world war. The 2 world wars between the major European states resulted in the death of 100 million people. Are these the signs of what you call 'successful' states as opposed to failed states? Do you consider the deaths in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq as the result of actions by a 'successful' state, ie the US? The failed states you speak about have only failed because of the wars which destroy them are funded by the major powers who can keep those low level wars going indefinitely at minimal cost to themselves. Most wars come to an end because the combatants simply lack the resources to keep them going, unless they are funded from the outside, in this case the US and its Middle Eastern proxies. Your concept of 'failed state' is the product of the noxious foul diet of neocon propaganda that passes for a liberal American education, and only exists to gain the consent of the US population to indebt them, their children and their great-grandchildren to fund their genocidal activities. Do your self a favor and purge yourself of it.

The only question that really puzzles me and probably should puzzle USA citizens is: Why is a USA drone flying in Yemen anyway?

by atmosx 13y ago

The only question that really puzzles me and probably should puzzle USA citizens is: Why is a USA drone flying in Yemen anyway?

rayiner 13y ago

Because Yemen is a failed state and a hotbed of terrorism, and the U.S. believes that it's important for geopolitical stability to keep it in check. There's nothing puzzling about it. This is the way the world has worked for centuries, and how the U.S. has worked since its founding. The great powers intervene in small nations to put out brush fires that could upset the global status quo. It's like the history of Europe from 1500-1945.

geoka9 13y ago
> to put out brush fires that could upset the global status quo. I thought we had UN for that?
vfclists 13y ago
It is not because Yemen is a failed state which is another bit of nonsensical terminology invented by the genocidal US policy hawks. It is a failed state primarily because it has corrupt leadership that is willing to take bribes from the US government and their armaments companies to engage in extra judicial killings of their citizens.
- rayiner 13y ago
  States exist to preserve internal security and impose the rule of law. Neither of these things exist in Yemen. It's a failed state by definition. As for how it got that way, it has nothing to do with the U.S. It's the result of the civil war in the 1990s.
  - vfclists 13y ago
    The Soviet state murdered 30 million of its 'own' citizens between its establishment and the onset of the 2nd world war. The 2 world wars between the major European states resulted in the death of 100 million people. Are these the signs of what you call 'successful' states as opposed to failed states? Do you consider the deaths in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq as the result of actions by a 'successful' state, ie the US? The failed states you speak about have only failed because of the wars which destroy them are funded by the major powers who can keep those low level wars going indefinitely at minimal cost to themselves. Most wars come to an end because the combatants simply lack the resources to keep them going, unless they are funded from the outside, in this case the US and its Middle Eastern proxies. Your concept of 'failed state' is the product of the noxious foul diet of neocon propaganda that passes for a liberal American education, and only exists to gain the consent of the US population to indebt them, their children and their great-grandchildren to fund their genocidal activities. Do your self a favor and purge yourself of it.