“And as the Islamic State
seizes weapons from the
American and Iranian
backed proxies whom
its mujāhidīn massacre,
it gets hold of tanks,
rocket launchers, missile
systems, and antiaircraft systems.”
who threaten us, while supporting
partners on the front lines, is one
that we have successfully pursued
in Yemen and Somalia for years,” he
said last September. I do not have
any information on the current
situation within Somalia, but Yemen
is exploding, the Islamic State is
already taking advantage of the
chaos there, and it is clear nothing
has been “successfully pursued.” The
American embassy has been closed
for more than three months now,
out of fear “terrorists” might attack
it, as the country descends into
further chaos. Would you like those
words served with relish or pickle,
president?
“[Obama] cited US policy in
Yemen and Somalia as a successful
illustration of what’s in store for Iraq
and Syria – a one-two punch of US air
power with local ground forces. But
Somalia is a failed state and Yemen
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is hardly a healthy one; both remain
incubators of dangerous terrorism,”
wrote the Washington Post in reply
to the president’s statement. And
that was eight months ago before
large portions of the Muslim world
took up arms.
And as the Islamic State seizes
weapons from the American and
Iranian backed proxies whom its
mujāhidīn massacre, it gets hold
of tanks, rocket launchers, missile
systems, and anti-aircraft systems.
Acquiring aircraft would be the
logical next step. It’s the plot of a
political Western horror film.
What’s happening now is a pooling
of skills and experience that poses
the greatest danger the West has
seen in modern times. When you
have that amount of battle-hardened
mujāhidīn all cooperating and
exchanging information for the first