Obama Falls into Al-Qaeda Trap by Escalating War in Yemen

"...We have a sort of repeat of the situation that we had in Afghanistan & in Iraq. ...The real strength of al-Qaeda is that a quite small incident—a botched attempt by a Nigerian student briefly in Yemen to blow up a plane—can then precipitate a whole change in international relations & greater US support for the Yemeni government, a greater involvement in a really difficult country. This seems to me walking straight into a sort of al-Qaeda trap. You know, at the time of 9/11, al-Qaeda ...


















