Sunday, January 10, 2010

Obama's Not Sending Troops to Yemen

As if we could. I think we're spread thin as far as troops go:
President Barack Obama said in an interview with People magazine released Sunday that he has “no intention” of sending combat troops to the terrorist havens of Somalia and Yemen because “working with international partners is most effective at this point.”

“I have no intention of sending U.S. boots on the ground in these regions,” Obama said in the interview, which was conducted Friday and is to appear in the issue on newsstands this coming Friday. More at Politico
The Yemenis think we have aspirations to occupy Yemen. It's still a largely held belief that we are at war with Islam and under Bush, we were: