Obama to Paul Ryan: US missile strikes on Yemen 'necessary and appropriate'
Actually, I think the strikes were justified under actions and precedents extending all the way back to Thomas Jefferson's administration. It just struck me that as someone who received the Nobel Peace Prize at the beginning of his first term, this president sure has bombed or otherwise attacks a lot of different people and countries.
Here was the action:
Published on Oct 12, 2016Update:
RED SEA (Oct. 13, 2016) The guided missile destroyer USS Nitze (DDG 94) launches a strike against three coastal radar sites in Houthi-controlled territory on Yemen's Red Sea coast. Due to hostile acts, continuing and imminent threat of force, and multiple threats to vessels in the Bab-al Mandeb Strait, including U.S. naval vessels, Nitze struck the sites, which were used to attack U.S. ships operating in international waters, threatening freedom of navigation. Nitze is deployed to the 5th Fleet area of operations to support maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts. (U.S. Navy Video/Released)
Nobel Peace Prize recipient Barack Obama is now facing some tough decisions about two countries he is bombing in the Middle East. Watching the demoralizing carnage in Syria and an uptick in the hostilities in Yemen, an itchy press corps and policy class are starting to demand that Obama sack up and really fight. ...Sort of like this. Jump to 30 seconds in.
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