Afghanistan

[Lamplighter]

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

Sunday, I'm in sympathy with your thinking.
Two guys talk on the telephone, and Osama Bin Laden gets what he wanted all along...
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Closing all those embassies is looking more and more like LOSE/LOSE for U.S.


NY Times
ROBERT F. WORTH and ERIC SCHMITT
August 7, 2013

Caustic Light on White House’s Reaction to a Terrorist Threat

<snip>“God is great!
America is in a condition of terror and fear from Al Qaeda,”
wrote one jihadist in an online forum.
Another one rejoiced:
“The mobilization and security precautions are costing them billions of dollars.
We hope to hear more of such psychological warfare,
even if there are no actual jihadi operations on the ground.”

The jihadists are not the only ones who see the new terrorist alert in a caustic light. <snip>

Yemen’s government has worked closely with the United States on counterterrorism measures,
and American officials, who had a troubled relationship with Yemen’s former longtime president,
Ali Abdullah Saleh, have voiced confidence in Mr. Hadi and increased aid to the country.

“When you do evacuations, you signal that all the effort to build up trust in
the Yemeni security establishment amounts to nothing,” said one Yemeni official,
who spoke on condition of anonymity. “And all the development projects by U.S.A.I.D.
and its counterparts in Britain, Germany and elsewhere — everything stops.”