The Yemeni domino totters

Jez

What next?

An Islamist takeover in a state controlling the mouth of the Red Sea.

Al Qaeda is also most probably going to be a far higher factor ther also.

Hugo Chav

Peter,

Are you a Liberal Jihadi?

I cancelled my Tory Party membership this morning.

I think the elite have lost leave of their senses with this Libyan campaign.

It is The Blair Clone Project.

It is totally unbelievable that they've not learnt the lessons of Afghanistan and Iraq.

I'm well Chaved Off.

Noa

The West's intervention in Libya appears to have resulted primarily in accelerating, rather than cauterising, the spread of unreast across the Arab world.

Verity

No visas. No "asylum".

No involvement by the West. These are domestic issues and should be settled without any action by the Bedfordshire Police.

Verity

Hugo Chav is correct. This is the Blair Clone Project, which is par for Cameron, who has had a pash on Blair for years.

Cameron needs to be replaced as Conservative Leader stat. He is stupid, self-admiring and destructive.

justathought

You can add Assad of Syria as the next on the list to be booted out of office. Read his interview in the WSJ where he likens his people to bacteria. Four decades of control by his family and still he blames the west for his present predicament.

The argument that you make is the same as Mubarak and every other despot in this region attempt to hide behind, that this or that extremist may take control. It is like suggesting collective punishment is justified on the population because of the misdeeds of extremist.

These populations have live in open prisons where every contact with an official was met with bribery and corruption. Despicable regimes gorging themselves on the oil wealth while the population went without education, health services nor gainful employment. Obama and others should understand that this is slavery by another name.

Baron

the well chaved off: what does a Liberal Jihadi do then? Blogs at the Spectator or what?

staying away from Libya wasn’t an option, it would have allowed the colonel to carry on, do untold harm not only in-house, outside Libyan borders, too, he has to be got rid of, sooner or later you’ll come to side with me on this, a man like him, plenty of money, a narcissistic streak, a massively boosted self-confidence, hard to say what he may get up to if you consider what he did when he was just irritated, not angry as he’s now.

what’s wrong ain’t that we interfere, what’s wrong is the way we carry out the interfering. We still cling to the sanitized view of a military conflict, you know, TV crews on top of building recording blasts, talking bollocks, lawyers having sleepless nights what with having to be consulted 24-7. Instead, if we’ve bred a statesman somewhere, someone who carried the respect of the unwashed as near globally as possible, he or she would address the conflict saying what good old George Orwell have hinted at: in real life, we don’t have the option of choosing between good and bad, we are forced to choose between two evils. Doing nothing would have been evil, yes, even for Hugo Chav who may not have liked it if the price of petrol were to hit couple of pounds a litre, prices of everything else shooting up, too, since oil happens to be a part of the cost make-up across the board. Our having to interfere is the other side of the coin of globalisation, you cannot have one without the other, just fish a coin from your pocket, try to separate the two.

hitting the nutter would finish the phase one within days, he’s the ‘Libyan State’, the largest part of it anyway, he’s run the country as his own fiefdom, there isn’t any coherent idea for the construct endorsed by the populace, even the army, except for a regiment or two, is made up of a ragtag band of warriors held together by lies, bribes, naked intimidation. If we get the equivalent of the 38 parallel in Korea, we will regret it, regret it alot.

MaxSceptic

The Tribal Thug is dead.

Long live the Tribal Thug.

And to think that this land was once Felix Arabia....

Baron

justathought @ 2.17:

well said, sir, you may have gone further a notch or two: as those enslaved didn’t have a say in anything, have been kept impoverished, prosecuted, they blamed us, the West, for de jure, de facto accepting such an arrangement of things, their leaving the gulags, arriving here to better their lot has been causing the resentment amongst the Western unwashed even if the newcomers didn’t engage in plotting against our way of life.

the longer the pocket of the Dark Ages lasted, the more painful would have its inevitable collapse been.

Victor Southern

Yemen has been a barely functioning state for many years.

Hugo Chav has been UKIP as long as he has been posting here.

JohnBUK

Perhaps the English will rise up and slay the EUSSR which has been holding sway here for the past few decades with only a figleaf of democracy covering it's behind. But then again East Enders is on the box so maybe not.

Hugo Chav

Victor Southern,

Never been attracted to UKIP.

Europe is not a big issue for me.

Now plan to join the Taxpayers Alliance.

Patricia Shaw

The best outcome would be for the rational, unsullied, patriotic but worldwise, youth of Israel to do the same.

Rid their country of its zealots and build a new consensus with their new neighbours.

That or trust their futures to AIPAC and a Palin Presidency.