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 quite openly said that their hope was to entrap the US into ground wars in Muslim countries. And that seems to be exactly what's happening."

Patrick Cockburn interviewed on Democracy Now, 4 Jan 2010
http://www.democracynow.org

See Cockburn's article "Threats to Yemen Prove America Hasn't Learned the Lesson of History": http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/patrick-cockburn-threats-to...

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