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Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Pepe Escobar: 'Billion-dollar Obama rocks Yemen'

from asia times online..............

"So far no R2P ("responsibility to protect"). No United Nations resolution. No no-fly zone. No "coalition of the willing". No Tomahawks. No Predator drones. No C-130 gun ships. No humanitarian imperialism. 

Yet so far, protesters are being killed; a dictator refuses to step down; al-Qaeda is thriving, and in the open; counter-insurgency rolls; there's a lot of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on the ground; and civil war looms. Welcome to the curious case of not-fit-for-humanitarian-imperialism Yemen.".............read more here

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