And be done with it. News today is that a US
Predator Drone brigade has taken unprecedented offensive
military action in the tip of the Arabian peninsula in Yemen against al-Qaeda operatives on the orders of US president Barack Obama. Meanwhile, also today,
we learn that Guantanamo Prison will soon be releasing six Yemeni jihadists to their home country, also on the orders of the President. Unless, on the off-chance they have been implanted with tracking devices for larger purposes, would it not make better military, political and economic sense to
just shoot them now, while we have them in custody? Why expend the precious carbon to send them home only to spend millions more later to hit them with drones?
Yemenis are perhaps the most recidivist of the previously released Guantanamo jihadist prisoners. Bullets are cheap. A clearer message could not be sent to Osama bin-Laden, if the president were interested in sending one. Osama, as a Yemeni himself,
would understand.
Update 12/24/09. Another Yemeni Gitmo recidivist dies in the
second strike in Yemen this week. Also taken out was Nidal Hassan's Yemeni contact and "spiritual adviser" Anwar al-Awlaki. A small hive is exterminated. Al-Awlaki
had just been interviewed by Al-Jazeera. Fame is fleeting.
1 comment:
SO carbon is precious this week aye? I do believe a certain someone - namely Adolf Hitler tried that very same approach some time back, "Just shoot them"- really worked out fine then , don't you think? Might as well stick with what worked in the past- right?
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