Should the USA's new year resolution be less than 5 wars for 2012?

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**Cheesecat**

dogma wrote:
But, to the topic, no one calls Afghanistan part of the Middle East except people that have political reasons to do so, or people that don't know what the Middle East is.

That was a fail on my part then.

**Relapse**

biccat wrote:
BrassScorpion wrote:As for sources, I'll take a well thought out editorial posted on Michael Moore's site over any of the lies others are posting from a certain propaganda channel on TV any day. You get your news from a channel that lies every day and thinks the Muppets are communists. If you don't have a rational argument with facts to back it up, please refrain from posting.

You can hate on CNN all you want. Just stop posting articles that take 5 minutes to scroll through.

I started to read the wall o text, but didn't get much beyond it was " the war that was suposed to make us an empire" part before I decided to scroll down to see who sponsored this river of sewage.

Imagine my surprise when I saw Michael Moore's name...

**Mannahnin**

It was a screed, but there can still be useful info and valid points in a screed. If anything in the world is worth getting angry and worked up about, a war is probably it.

On a moderation note, please don't post (or quote someone else posting) long articles mid-thread. It breaks the flow of conversation. A snippet and a link should be sufficient. Starting a thread with a full article can be fine, if that article is the topic of the thread.

**Easy E**

Weren't we militarily involved in Yemen as well or were we just backing the existing government from having there own "arab Spring?"

I don't recall.

I may just be thinking of a drone strike on Anwar Al-Maliki?

**schadenfreude**

Easy E wrote:Weren't we militarily involved in Yemen as well or were we just backing the existing government from having there own "arab Spring?"

I don't recall.

I may just be thinking of a drone strike on Anwar Al-Maliki?

The drone strike in Yemen was the military of the US assassinating a US citizen

**Ahtman**

schadenfreude wrote:
Easy E wrote:Weren't we militarily involved in Yemen as well or were we just backing the existing government from having there own "arab Spring?"

I don't recall.

I may just be thinking of a drone strike on Anwar Al-Maliki?

The drone strike in Yemen was the military of the US assassinating a US citizen

Or it was the military of the US killing an ex-citizen, terrorist leader.

**dogma**

Easy E wrote:Weren't we militarily involved in Yemen as well or were we just backing the existing government from having there own "arab Spring?"

I don't recall.

I may just be thinking of a drone strike on Anwar Al-Maliki?

We have, over time, launched many things at Yemen, but the current government is sympathetic. Its much like the relationship we had with Mubarak, but with less Nile River.

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schadenfreude wrote:
The drone strike in Yemen was the military of the US assassinating a US citizen

I can think of a number of others I would like them to assassinate.

**Easy E**

No, the Government we were backign was Bahrain, not Yemen. No US Military involvement there.

Edit: I'm pretty sure Ol' Anwar was still aUS citizen we he got zapped.