Why Has the U.S. Abandoned Its Citizens in Yemen?

Because they’re of Yemeni extraction. Pure and simple.

And ironic, given that the U.S. president is “black.” Apparently blacks can be bigots too.

Also there’s apparently a presumption on the part of the U.S. secret police and Imperialist managers that any American in Yemen must be up to no good. (That’s the same logic that got hundreds of men who happened to be in Afghanistan when the U.S. attacked, branded as “terrorists” when bounty hunters and the cynical Pakistani government sold them to the U.S. for torture and shipment to Guantanamo Bay. Out of about 800 unfortunates consigned to the tender mercies of the U.S. military and CIA at that military gulag, there are about 50 whom the U.S. still insists are “terrorists.” Some really were members of Al-Qaeda or the Taliban.) 

Numerous other nations have been evacuating not only their own citizens from Yemen, but those of other nations too. Not the U.S. 

China saved 600 of its own citizens plus the citizens of numerous other countries. Russia evacuated civilians. India is flying jetliners into Sana’a international airport and flying out overloaded planeloads of Indian and other civilians. That civilian airport was one of the first targets the Saudi savages bombed, according to the BBC. (A BBC correspondent also described bombed-out hangers in an April 9^th broadcast.)

Even Somalia has managed to send a ship to evacuate its nationals. Somalia is barely  a nation anymore.

But the Mighty U.S. of A., with the world’s most powerful military and major bases all around Yemen in places like Bahrain, is pretending to be helpless to lift a finger to help its own citizens leave the besieged country. 

The U.S. split from its embassy a few weeks ago. After that, U.S. “special forces” cut and ran from their Yemeni base, leaving behind half a billion dollars worth of military gear. (Wonder whose hands all that is going to fall into.)

But it’s not one-hundred-percent correct to say that the U.S. government has provided no help at all to Americans in Yemen. It offered to pass along their pleas for help to their families by posting messages on the State Department website.

Well, thank YOU, “Uncle Sam”! You really go the extra mile to “protect Americans.”

But the U.S. has some company in abandoning its citizens. “Great” Britain has done the same. This is the ultimate U.S.-stooge country that almost always marches loyally behind the U.S. in its footsteps. [1]

Apparently the Obama regime and the secret police state he backs to the hilt assume that if an American is ethnically Arab, or believes in Islam, they’re a “terrorist,” especially if they travel to Muslim lands.

And here’s a kicker. An American, who Obama caused to be imprisoned in Yemen since 2010 as a “terrorist suspect” in U.S. secret police jargon, fears he’s about to die in jail there. Sharif Mobley is a Muslim convert with a wife and three children in America. And guess what else?

He’s a black American.

Obama-irony squared!

The behavior of Obama’s State Department makes clear that the U.S. government wants Sharif to die in Yemen. If Mobley comes back alive, he will be talking about what the Obama regime did to him for the past five years. [2]

The same logic led Obama to order the murder of Anwar al-Awlaki's 16-year-old son two weeks after killing the father. The son was obviously going to be a source of bad publicity for years to come for the assassination of his Dad. The drone strike that blew away the teen (he was decapitated and his body blown to pieces) in a Yemeni cafe also killed his cousins as "collateral damage." Or maybe that was intended too.) 

So don’t be surprised if a Saudi airstrike destroys the prison Mobley is locked up in.

And look forward to smears trashing Mobley popping up in U.S. media from unnamed government “sources” after Mobley is dead. Because that’s how the U.S. rulers roll.

Hey, thanks for “protecting us,” Obama!

 Obama Wants This Man Dead

There’s a good lesson here for the chumps who feel it’s their duty to be “patriotic.” With a nation like the U.S., loyalty is a one-way street. You owe the rulers. You owe them your money. You owe them your blood. You might even owe them your life. But they owe you NOTHING. In fact, they are constantly scheming to take away Social Security from you, and public education now too. (Hedge fund bosses, insatiably greedy, are unsatisfied with their billions and want more. Their “charter school movement” is a Trojan Horse to steal the billions spend on primary education in America.)

Iran, the scapegoat for the Houthi uprising, is calling for a ceasefire in Yemen and a halt to the U.S.-backed Saudi aerial blitzkrieg. 

It’s a Big Lie that the Houthis are Iranian puppets. The Iranian support is rhetorical. The Houthis rebelled because of years of venal misrule by a faux government. Here’s an irony: the real behind-the-curtain player in Yemen is former dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh. Forced out of power after 30 years and replaced by his vice president, Hadi, he controls military bases and forces in Yemen and is backing the Houthi rebellion in an attempt to put himself back in the presidential palace. The Saudis and their American allies are trying to put Hadi back on the pedestal of power. But Yemen doesn’t really have a government anymore. Humpty-Dumpty cannot be put back together again by U.S.-supplied bombs dropped from U.S.-supplied planes on U.S.-identified targets flown by Saudi pilots.)

1] As I said, almost always. Britain just signed up to China’s new Asian Development Bank, much to U.S. chagrin. This was motivated by economics. British upper-level capitalists have all kinds of deals in China, and want more. Furthermore, London is a global financial center, and thus Britain wants to draw China in to its financial and property markets. And down the road, as the Chinese currency becomes an international currency, London will want a piece of that currency business, transactions both commercial and speculative.

Britain’s joining the new Bank set off a stampede of other U.S. allies signing up also, European countries and even South Korea, Australia, and Taiwan. (Taiwan!) Only Japan, that nation of extremely obedient people, obeyed U.S. orders and stayed away from China’s party.

2] See “AMERICAN MAN IMPRISONED IN YEMEN CALLS HOME; FEARS FOR LIFE,” the intercept, April 1, 2015.