Yemen, King Abdullah, and Ballgahzi

 @deaginghipster

     The President and Prime Minister of Yemen have decided to quit their jobs. If anyone is interested in trying to run a failed state there are multiple job openings as I do believe that the whole cabinet has washed their hands of the whole situation as well. According to Reuters these abdications  suprised not only the 25 million people who live there but also the Iranian backed Houthi Rebel group. (Who are they?)

     Are you keeping up because I'm not sure that I am, lets have a quick refresher on our recent history with our "close ally" on the Arabian Peninsula

On October 12,1990 the USS Cole was refueling in Aden Harbor in Yemen when it was attacked by a suicide bomber 17 US Sailors where killed and 39 where injured. Al-Queda claimed responsibility. Our close "ally" Yemen growing terrorist since 1990. Where did the asses that decided to shoot up Paris give shout outs to before they went out in the preverbial blaze of bullets and gunsmoke? The training camps in Yemen is where. Where does ISIS call home and Al-Queda too ? Yemen is where. This is a friend? the last time I looked my friends where not housing my arch enemies. Just because they accepted  the prisoners that we sent over there to be tortured and they let us send off some really expensive remote controlled aeroplanes that pack a wallop does not make us friends.

 King Abdulla passed away yesterday at the very ripe old age of 90. His reign was short 2005-2015. According to Wikipedia he is survived by 11 wives and 18 royal heirs. He also leaves behind a legacy of being the ruler of a nation that provided (s) the start up and operational cost of ISIS and Al-Queda. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/14/america-s-allies-are-funding-isis.html

We are batting 2 for 2 in the friends on the Arabian peninsula department. The Saudis gave us 911,Osama bin Laden , and until very recently ridiculous gas prices. How is that a friend of our nation? They give the money to the guys that the President vowed to fight during the state of the union. They are the guys that our children fight and kill and then come back home tortured by PTSD because their humvee was hit by an IED and oh the terrible things they have seen. The most atrocious fact is that We The People are paying for all this madness not only because of the prices that we are willing to pay at the pump but because we let ISIS overrun the Iraqi army and capture huge arms caches from Humvees to helicopters to shiny new M16's paid for by you and me. How much of the half billion dollars that they stole from Mosul's central bank was American Aid?

Which leads us to the all consuming scandal of #Ballghazi. The

New England Patriots exemplify what America used to be. They play to win damn the torpedoes,full speed ahead!

They are not nice and they will crush you if you get in the way of them achieving their goal. Kinda like Truman dropping the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki unapologetically. I'm not condoning that act but I do appreciate the fact that action was taken to end the War. I am so tired of continuous war for the sake of it.  

We turn our children into murderers and let them  get murdered for who? For what? So that we can prop up yet another failed state call them our friends lavish them with boatloads of cash and have them stab us in the back?