U.S. Shifts to Seek Removal of Yemen’s Leader, an Ally

[YankeeFan]

Saleh is about to join Mubarak on the list of dictators we can no longer support.

The United States, which long supported Yemen’s president, even in the face of recent widespread protests, has now quietly shifted positions and has concluded that he is unlikely to bring about the required reforms and must be eased out of office, according to American and Yemeni officials.

The Obama administration had maintained its support of President Ali Abdullah Saleh in private and refrained from directly criticizing him in public, even as his supporters fired on peaceful demonstrators, because he was considered a critical ally in fighting the Yemeni branch of Al Qaeda. This position has fueled criticism of the United States in some quarters for hypocrisy for rushing to oust a repressive autocrat in Libya but not in strategic allies like Yemen and Bahrain.

That position began to shift in the past week, administration officials said. While American officials have not publicly pressed Mr. Saleh to go, they have told allies and some reporters that they now view his hold on office as untenable, and they believe he should leave.

A Yemeni official said that the American position changed when the negotiations with Mr. Saleh on the terms of his potential departure began a little over a week ago.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/04/world/middleeast/04yemen.html?emc=na&pagewanted=all

 

[Steak Snabler]

My brother has been working in Yemen for about the last six months for a French oil and gas company. He came home on leave in late February (he gets three weeks off every eight weeks) and was all set to go back in mid-March, when the company called him and told him not to return until further notice. He's still getting paid for the time-being, but no work has been done in about a month (a large portion of their labor force is native Yemeni and those guys are in the street protesting). I imagine they're getting close to shutting things down, although the state department may tell all Americans to get out before then anyway.

 

[printdust]

And in other news, Afghans are enraged and enacting violence and death because someone burned some Korans. But that's not news here.

 

[Azrael]

And in other news, Afghans are enraged and enacting violence and death because someone burned some Korans. But that's not news here.

Other than being on the front page of every major newspaper and newspaper website in the United States, that is completely correct.

 

[YankeeFan]

And in other news, Afghans are enraged and enacting violence and death because someone burned some Korans. But that's not news here.

Other than being on the front page of every major newspaper and newspaper website in the United States, that is completely correct.

I think he might have meant "here" as in SportsJournalists.com.

There was a thread. It didn't go well.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

And in other news, Afghans are enraged and enacting violence and death because someone burned some Korans. But that's not news here.

You forgot to post his on the I Hate Muslims board.

 

[printdust]

Nah the Muslims are doing enough hating on their own. And we keep hoping it goes away by ignoring it.

 

[printdust]

And in other news, Afghans are enraged and enacting violence and death because someone burned some Korans. But that's not news here.

Other than being on the front page of every major newspaper and newspaper website in the United States, that is completely correct.

I think he might have meant "here" as in SportsJournalists.com.

There was a thread. It didn't go well.

Of course I was. This is like Pravda, scratching the news and commentary we don't want to know...living in denial of what these people are about, going out of the way to avoid offending them. It's beyond silly.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

And in other news, Afghans are enraged and enacting violence and death because someone burned some Korans. But that's not news here.

Other than being on the front page of every major newspaper and newspaper website in the United States, that is completely correct.

I think he might have meant "here" as in SportsJournalists.com.

There was a thread. It didn't go well.

Of course I was. This is like Pravda, scratching the news and commentary we don't want to know...living in denial of what these people are about, going out of the way to avoid offending them. It's beyond silly.

Don't worry. Your hatred of Muslims is well-documented.

 

[printdust]

I call them as I see them and as most of the legitimate world sees them, which is far better vision than represents a significant number here.

 

[YankeeFan]

Let's stick to Yemen.

If we're dropping support for him, he could be on his way out. That's a pretty big deal.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

I call them as I see them and as most of the legitimate world sees them, which is far better vision than represents a significant number here.

Wrong. Most of the legitimate world is not bigoted, as you are.

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

Saleh will outlast this thread.

 

[printdust]

I call them as I see them and as most of the legitimate world sees them, which is far better vision than represents a significant number here.

Wrong. Most of the legitimate world is not bigoted, as you are.

Moronic. Muslims are certainly tolerant of other religions. Check it out in any of your favorite Middle East junkyards.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

I call them as I see them and as most of the legitimate world sees them, which is far better vision than represents a significant number here.

Wrong. Most of the legitimate world is not bigoted, as you are.

Moronic. Muslims are certainly tolerant of other religions. Check it out in any of your favorite Middle East junkyards.

You are moronic. And a bigot.

 

[printdust]

You hear Christians killing people in response to Bible-burning every day. Right.

Idiots.

 

[printdust]

I call them as I see them and as most of the legitimate world sees them, which is far better vision than represents a significant number here.

Wrong. Most of the legitimate world is not bigoted, as you are.

Moronic. Muslims are certainly tolerant of other religions. Check it out in any of your favorite Middle East junkyards.

You are moronic.

You certainly don't do much for understanding of world events.

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

Christians kill for far more trivial or arbitrary reasons all the time. I'm not going to paint all Christians with that brush, though.

 

[printdust]

This is tolerance and bigotry.

http://www.persecution.org/awareness/persecuted-countries/

Define freedom of religion in the U.S. versus your glorified Islamic republics.

 

[YGBFKM]

Ignoring the very real threat of Muslim extremism doesn't equate to being tolerant of religion.