War

General Smedley Butler's proposal for a Constitutional Amendment of Peace.

Ron Paul asks why we are war in Yemen. Because al Qaeda is there.

"The US claims that everyone killed was a “suspected militant,” but Yemeni citizens have for a long time been outraged over the number of civilians killed in such strikes. The media has reported that of all those killed in these recent US strikes, only one of the dead was on the terrorist “most wanted” list."
"According to the Administration, the embassy closings were prompted by an NSA-intercepted conference call at which some 20 al-Qaeda leaders discussed attacking the West. Many remain skeptical about this dramatic claim, which was made just as some in Congress were urging greater scrutiny of NSA domestic spying programs."

I never heard that claim, and I'm very skeptical of it. I heard al Zawahiri contacted the head of al Qaeda in Yemen. A 20 person conference call is something you would expect of US rulers, not al Qaeda. It sounds like something designed to fool Americans. Evidence that the warning was a political stunt just grew significantly.

"Far from solving the problem of extremists in Yemen, however, this US presence in the country seems to be creating more extremism. According to professor Gregory Johnson of Princeton University, an expert on Yemen, the civilian “collateral damage” from US drone strikes on al-Qaeda members actually attracts more al-Qaeda recruits:
“There are strikes that kill civilians. There are strikes that kill women and children. And when you kill people in Yemen, these are people who have families. They have clans. And they have tribes. And what we’re seeing is that the United States might target a particular individual because they see him as a member of al-Qaeda. But what’s happening on the ground is that he’s being defended as a tribesman.”"

I think that's pretty obvious since everybody claims that the most dangerous branch of al Qaeda is in Yemen.

"This cycle of intervention producing problems that require more intervention to “solve” impoverishes us and makes us more, not less, vulnerable. Can anyone claim this old approach is successful? Has it produced one bit of stability in the region? Does it have one success story? There is an alternative. It is called non-interventionism. We should try it. First step would be pulling out of Yemen. "

Exactly.

Yemeni official claims the threat on US embassies had no basis in fact, that Obama used to to dampen resistance to drone strikes. More evidence supporting the political stunt theory.

NATO is transforming into a world police force.

The US policy of aggression and war is losing the global war on terror.