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A shocking story in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal quotes top U.S. military leaders’ suspicions that they were essentially duped by Yemen’s government into calling in a drone strike that killed a local political leader — a man whose only “crime” was that his family had had a falling out with Yemen’s ruling clan.
Jabir Shabwani, deputy governor of the oil-rich Mareb province, was killed along with six others by a drone strike at a gathering that U.S. officials were led to believe was a meeting of al-Qaeda leaders. In fact, Shabwani may actually have been sent to the meeting at the behest of Yemen’s long-time President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who then later arranged the U.S. hit.
Gosh, i'm just...shocked() that we'd do something so stupid!
Time for us to pack it in over there. Enough already. I still think that half the clowns we've captured as so called "terrorists" that are sitting in Gauntanamo and other prisons are just guys that got fingered by people they didn't like.
My god, can you imagine if this were Bush? It would be bloody, front page, above the fold headlines across the nation. Now we have mostly silence.
The Left would be in a frothing rage as well.
All that is probably true.
But then, you'd be happy about the incident. (you actually are happy about it, but you can't say it due to an inability to like something that happened under Obama).
This has happened fairly frequently in Afghanistan, and a few times in Iraq. One faction or tribe would "inform" on a rival faction to the US military, thus initiating an airstrike or other attack. Unfortunately, our intelligence analysts aren't always that great at identifying these kinds of setups.
But then, you'd be happy about the incident. (you actually are happy about it, but you can't say it due to an inability to like something that happened under Obama).
Why would she or anyone be happy over the US gov. killing an innocent man?
This has happened fairly frequently in Afghanistan, and a few times in Iraq. One faction or tribe would "inform" on a rival faction to the US military, thus initiating an airstrike or other attack. Unfortunately, our intelligence analysts aren't always that great at identifying these kinds of setups.
Or....it doesn't matter as long as the goals of the US gov. are met.
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) that we'd do something so stupid!
