Saudis ask for troops for Yemen invasion
The Washington Times reports that the Saudis are asking for troops from Pakistan to help them kill Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen. The Saudis have been using airstrikes to keep the Shiite rebels off-balanced along with some US help;
“There is U.S. strategic interest in returning some sense of stability to Yemen. The issue is, I don’t think there is a political appetite including among Americans for a ground war,” said Seth Jones, director of the International Security and Defense Policy Center at Rand Corp. “I don’t know that the U.S. wants to get directly engaged.”
A 20-person joint committee in Ridayh, Saudi Arabia, including a “handful” of U.S. advisers, is providing intelligence to the Saudis to create a battleground picture, including general locations of the enemy and “no strike” areas that could contribute to collateral damage, the senior defense official said.
A scant few months ago, the Obama Administration was pointing at Yemen as their shining example of their own brand of the war against terror, today, not so much. I guess the “Obama Touch” is the opposite of the “Midas Touch”.
Category: Terror War
We would like to help,,, BUT, right now we have our hands full with this whole Pacific Rim thing. sorry.
“their shining example of their own brand of the war against terror, today, not so much”. hence, that Asian “Pivot”. If something starts to make Dear Reader bad, pivot away, pivot away now.
‘the Obama touch is the opposite of the Midas touch’…. Well, you simply can’t expect to live on golf scores and teleprompters forever. Sometimes you do have to pay attention to the real world.
Oh, dear me. What was I thinking when I wrote that?
The Kah=kah touch, everything you touch turns to shit
Why can’t the Saudis use their own troops?
Because the ‘insurgent’ they shoot at today might marry into the family tomorrow. It would make things awkward at the reception, I’m sure.
VERY TRUE!! That, and they fearthey might be “trading lead” with their first cousins as it is!
Because then they’d also have to admit their complicity in creating a lot of this situation, what with funding the Whabbist schools that have created an entire generation of Islamist radicals.
We now see what happens when we step out of the leadership role in the world of politics…
I am certain that the Saudi’s would rather put our troops there than theirs…
Oh, and of course obungahole will think it is best too…
Your right, he will, but with an extremely modified rules of engagement so that our troops have a hard time defending themselves.
Please correct me if I err … isn’t there some rule in the Koran about Muslims not killing Muslims?
Does the force of that rule somehow diminish if the Muslim freedom fighters (not to say mercenaries) come from further away?
After all the crap that happens in the Middle East, all of it around the House of Saud (really! Yemen, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Egypt, Somalia), why is it that their guys always look so clean? Don’t they have dirt in Saudi Arabia?
Uuhhm wait, didn’t B. Hussein 0bama once say he’d stand with his fellow muslims? Meh, that miserable lying POS keeps his word to NOBODY!
will they accept the help of any of our troops, or just the non Jewish ones? Fuck them.
+1
Can’t they just hire the latest iteration of Blackwater?
Didn’t the boss just declare world peace?