Houthis + Somali pirates
Submitted by gjohnsit on Mon, 12/18/2023 - 12:24pmBy now pretty much everyone is aware that the Houthis in Yemen are siding with the Palestinians when it comes to shipping.
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U.S. has forgotten the death and suffering we are still causing in the middle east
Submitted by gjohnsit on Mon, 05/16/2022 - 3:53pmBefore I begin I want to say that I know Afghanistan and Yemen aren't technically in the Middle East, but I used the term anyway for the benefit of Americans.
Trump will end one war
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sun, 12/06/2020 - 11:47pmIt appears that Congress won't let the Forever War in Afghanistan end.
It appears that the Pentagon won't let the illegal War in Syria end.
The good and bad of Trump's recent foreign policy
Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 04/07/2020 - 3:19pmWhile everyone is focused on the pandemic, several extremely important developments have happened in recent weeks that are being mostly overlooked.
Meanwhile in the GWOT
Submitted by gjohnsit on Mon, 09/30/2019 - 6:43pm
Al-Qaeda may have been exaggerating.
A rare feel-good story from Somalia
Submitted by gjohnsit on Mon, 09/16/2019 - 11:55amWhen it comes to World Cup soccer, Somalia is an after thought.
Somalia is ranked 202 of 211 football nations — 90 places below Zimbabwe in the latest world rankings.
It's been 35 years since Somalia’s last qualifying win, and 10 years since the last victory of any kind. Somalia had lost 27 matches in a row.
That's why last week's game is such a shock.
How long will our Forever Wars last?
Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 04/16/2019 - 11:20pm
America doesn't actually have troops on the ground in Yemen, but Trump decided to veto the resolution against the genocidal war anyway. So who knows how long we'll be involved in that disaster.
Committing war crimes for no particular reason
Submitted by gjohnsit on Fri, 03/22/2019 - 4:20pmLast year during a Senate hearing, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand asked U.S. Central Command commander Gen. Lloyd Austin what the ultimate goal of the war in Yemen was.
Why are Americans unable to care about Somalians?
Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 01/08/2019 - 12:28am"What is certain is that we have taken a group of the world's most destitute, desperate, and brutalized people, and brutalized them some more."
- Matthew Blood
The U.S. troop surge in Somalia
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sun, 11/19/2017 - 11:39amThe few Americans that pay attention know that we've had another troop surge in Afghanistan, but did you know we've deployed hundreds of soldiers to Somalia too?
