Concerning the Yemen, it certainly looks to me like the same old shit. The Obama administration has covertly given the Yemeni government cruise missiles and so on (it is not clear who is in charge of their deployment) to drop on people it doesn't like, and are supposedly Al-Qaeda members. Last week they blew up a lot of people -- note, these people were not brought to a court, nothing has been proved against any of them, they weren't subject to any declarations of intent, and it is more than likely that a whole lot of them were innocent, but, hey, we get to blow them up because we feel like it is a good idea because sometime they might be dangerous to us or to the Yemeni government (who are one more bunch of criminals -- the reason why Guantanamo is not closed is because the Americans don't trust the Yemeni government to handle its own nationals, but, hey, they are our bunch of criminals). This is terrorism on a state scale. I don't know what else to call it.

Curiously enough, this seems to make people angry, and help recruits people against America. Can't figure out why. Baffles me.

yours,

Peter T.