U.S. officials believe al Qaeda in Yemen is now collaborating more closely with allies in Pakistan and Somalia to plot attacks against the U.S., spurring the prospect that the administration will mount a more intense targeted killing program in Yemen.[...]
The U.S. military's Special Operation Forces and the CIA have been positioning surveillance equipment, drones and personnel in Yemen, Djibouti, Kenya and Ethiopia to step up targeting of al Qaeda's Yemen affiliate, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, known as AQAP, and Somalia's al Shabaab—Arabic for The Youth.
It strikes me that we could just as easily compare Obama with Nixon as with GW Bush. Nixon was elected for his second term promising that he was going to end the war in Viet Nam. Obama was elected promising to end the war in Iraq. Both left "non-combat troops" in place, and Nixon expanded the war into Laos and Cambodia, while Obama is expanding the war into Pakistan and Yemen.
Obama is much better looking, however.
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