GWB told all of us in a speech to the country,'' That the war on terror will take years. If we don't face terror around the globe sooner or later we will face it here in the U.S.A. '' . Question: How should we change the strategy to keep Terrorist on the run and defeated. An keep another 911 from happening.
there is no question that Afghanistan is a REFUGE for
terrorists of the islamic persuasion, that does not
necessarily mean that we need troops there----just
"intelligence" to know where the notables are hiding
out. The people over there have ENOUGH troubles
Terrorists began moving to Yemen 20 years ago. The Taliban are war orphans who stay in Afghanistan.
what are you called "terrorists" in Yemen?----(keep in mind---hubby was born there LOTS LONGER than 20 years ago) The Taliban are PAKISTANI "idealists" in the
sunni JIHADI Persuasion. They tend to be OFF THE UNIVERSITIES of PAKISTAN---
from fairly prosperous families..... eager for JIHAD ADVENTURE (keep in mind---I have been working with Pakistani post-graduate boys for----more than 50 years) Getting
back to Yemen----the HOUTHIS are the SHIITEs of Yemen---Shiites are so
ENAMORED of Iran that they learn Farsi as a "holy language" ----(some of those
post graduates from India and Pakistan are muslim shiites too-----In Pakistan they are
so hated that the better educated are subject to DRIVE-BY ASSASINATION
A lot of Afghanis are Pashtun .. supposedly descended from the tribe of Benjamin.
The Houthis are sort of Shia.. they adhere to some Sunni practices. I can believe they would hate the educated in Pakistan.
The CIA recruited a lot of Yemeni to fight in the Soviets in Afghanistan so a lot of them returned to Yemen.. Remember the bombing of the USS Cole?
Since then Yemen has attracted some Boko Haram and Somali pirates. Plus, I'm sure there are still monarchists and communists from the 1960s fighting.
I went back to Asir in 2000... and the Saudis had already moved a lot of villages back from the border by 20 kilometers. There are a million Yemeni refugees in Arabia. I met some nice Yemeni young men who worked in hospitality or as tour guides.. The Saudis opened a college in Yemen to teach the hospitality business years ago.