Chris Floyd on Instant Karma: New US War Target (Yemen!) Gets Its Own Terror Icon (Yemen-Trained!)

"The American war machine," writes Floyd, "is like a shark. It must keep moving, and feeding, or die."

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Instant Karma: New US War Target Gets Its Own Terror Icon
Written by Chris Floyd
Sunday, 27 December 2009 01:29

Wow, that didn't take long at all. Scant days after the American war machine took the cloaking device off its direct military involvement in Yemen, we have an alleged attempted terrorist attack by an alleged attempted terrorist who, just scant hours after his capture, has allegedly confessed to getting his alleged attempted terrorist material from ... wait for it ... Yemen!

Yemen-trained terrorists on the loose in American airplanes! At Christmas! Great googily moogily! It's a good thing our boys are on the case over there right now, pounding the holy hell outta some of them Al Qaeder ragheads! And to think, a few pipsqueaky fifth columnists had been starting to wonder why we were killing dozens of innocent civilians on behalf of an authoritarian regime embroiled in a three-way civil war on the other side of the world.

Well, now they have their answer, by God! Alleged attempted terrorists allegedly trained in Yemen! What else do you need -- a freaking warrant or something? We would obviously be justified in nuking that desert hell-hole and everybody in it! Just think of it -- some guy with some kind of something on an airplane, right there in the Heartland! You gonna stand for that? Exterminate the brutes!

And yet, because we are good, because we are godly, because our heart is always in the right place, even when -- as President Obama himself admitted in his noble Nobel Speech -- we sometimes make mistakes, we have not brought down the full force of the iron rod that God himself has placed into our hands for the chastisement and right order of the world. No, there will be no nukes falling on the children of Yemen tonight. But boy howdy, they'd better get ready for some sure-enough heavy ordnance -- fired from distant ships, from far-flung bases and from computer consoles in leafy Stateside suburbs, where you can bravely kill some alleged attempted somebody-or-other (and everyone in their immediate vicinity), and still make it home in time to to eat supper with the kids.

So here we are. Just one day after the alleged attempted terrorist incident in Detroit, we already have headlines blaring in the New York Times, the "paper of record," tying the alleged attempt to Yemen. How quick and convenient is that? Already the echo chamber is roaring with the all-justifying cacophony: "Terror, Yemen, al Qaeda, Homeland, Bomb, Terror, Yemen, Yemen, al Qaeda."

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Of course, the NYT noted that "authorities have not independently corroborated the Yemen connection claimed by the suspect" (nor, they could have added, have they independently corroborated that the claim was actually made), but still, the completely anonymous "law enforcement official" said that the suspect's claim "was plausible," and even added: "I see no reason to discount it."

Well, it doesn't get more solid than that, does it? They nailed that story down so tight you couldn't pry it open with God's own crowbar. An anonymous source confirmed the plausibility of his own claim. Man, that's ironclad. It's certainly good enough to light up the media firmament with headlines linking "terror in the Heartland" with the empire's newest killing field in a volatile foreign land.

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Yeah, I think it was a hoax. Everything is in fact.

For the conspiracy theorists to start their howls.

The meme that the administration ordered an attack on Yemen when the more credible reports indicate that it supplied intelligence and hardware.

Next, the administration is moving forward on repatriating Yemenis now at Guantanamo, and the Republicans are outraged.

In fact, all type of stories to bolster the RW concerns about Yemen have popped up.

While the conspiracies fly, no doubt the RW's desire to hype the threat will only be outmatched by the claim that Obama is Bush.

And meanwhile, Saudi Arabia is laughing its collective, medieval ass off all the way to the bank.

Chris has it exactly right.

even the little ones are evil and must be destroyed (though the Yemenite setting is arbitrary, since all armed Airbs are threats to the Fatherland and its Volk)

that is an Islamist craphole that has been asking for remedial action for at least a decade now.

Perhaps with the appropriate application of strategic nukes we can bomb it straight into Jeffersonian democracy!

for all I care. There's not a damn thing there worth anything that I know or give a shit about. It's been the birthplace of terrorism before now.

I'm glad that President Obama realizes this, and is taking appropriate action.

Want to see some of the bodies of some what you 'don't give a shit about'? Wow, the extent people will go to when they involve themselves in a cult. I never saw a post like yours even on a rightwing site. They at least try to pretend to have some sense of decency.

Did you lose your way? Warmongering blogs are generally to your right. I think you took a left turn by mistake.

limited by the actions of jihadis, I get this way. I used to think it was only something I'd feel during the Bush administration, I guess not...

condone the arbitrary killing of innocent people who are no threat to you at all. Did you know that you have less chance of being the victim of a terror attack than you do of winning the lottery? And for that you'd give up all of the principles this country was founded on.

No terrorist or jihadi can take away or even limit your 'American Freedoms'. They have to be given up by. Only you can do that.

Ben Franklin's fear that Americans might not be willing to defend what he and his colleagues had given to Americans, seems to have been prescient. He certainly never considered the fact that anyone could take it away, only that a weak citizenry might be willing to give it up.

for religionists who really want to fuck up our freedom. I despise all religion, but it wasn't Presbyterian church ladies running those planes into the WTC.

I also have plenty of contempt for the jackbooted TSA thugs whose official job it is, is to treat every one of us as a terrorist. I'll be glad when we finally get someone in charge who knows how to separate those who need to have their underwear searched, and those who don't.

We have created a new enemy, Islamiania...

And doesn't all the imagry, the history of Osama bin Laden remind anyone of Emmanuel Goldstein.

He once was on our side but turned trator against us...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTMpRD7_hMo

...and destroyed--would have to be a more obscure place.

The PNAC plan, which was up on their own Website--said they wanted to go after Iraq, Iran, Syria--in that order. They got
Iraq, but a funny thing happened on the way to Iran. Americans knew more about Iran. They weren't buying that the "Iranians
would welcome us as liberators' nonsense. The proof of nuclear-weapons production was easily refutable. Plus, the Iranian
people would clearly fight back. Look at how they reacted after those unfair elections.

So, they had to target some crappy, lesser known place without a strong-minded or educated population; one that the warmongers
could define, because most Americans know nothing about it.

So, there ya go.

http://copycateffect.blogspot.com/2009/12/fort-hood-linked-iman-killed.html


OMG! Yemen!

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Same as the old boss.

What perfect timing! We're being 'shocked doctrined' to death.