{"id":185157,"date":"2011-09-24T20:34:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T01:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/09\/24\/in-the-latest-episode-of-the-forever-war\/"},"modified":"2011-09-24T20:34:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-25T01:34:00","slug":"in-the-latest-episode-of-the-forever-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/09\/24\/in-the-latest-episode-of-the-forever-war\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Latest Episode of &#8220;The Forever War&#8221;\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obama has signed of on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/us-building-secret-drone-bases-in-africa-arabian-peninsula-officials-say\/2011\/09\/20\/gIQAJ8rOjK_story.html\">building an archipelago of secret drone bases in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>The Obama administration is assembling a constellation of secret drone bases for counterterrorism operations in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula as part of a newly aggressive campaign to attack al-Qaeda affiliates in Somalia and Yemen, U.S. officials said.<\/p>\n<p>One of the installations is being established in Ethi\u00ado\u00adpia, a U.S. ally in the fight against al-Shabab, the Somali militant group that controls much of that country. Another base is in the Seychelles, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, where a small fleet of \u201chunter-killer\u201d drones resumed operations this month after an experimental mission demonstrated that the unmanned aircraft could effectively patrol Somalia from there.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. military also has flown drones over Somalia and Yemen from bases in Djibouti, a tiny African nation at the junction of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. In addition, the CIA is building a secret airstrip in the Arabian Peninsula so it can deploy armed drones over Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>The rapid expansion of the undeclared drone wars is a reflection of the growing alarm with which U.S. officials view the activities of al-Qaeda affiliates in Yemen and Somalia, even as al-Qaeda\u2019s core leadership in Pakistan has been weakened by U.S. counterterrorism operations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is completely nuts, the Pentagon is going to bankrupt us by placing a constellation of bases around the world that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We cannot afford.<\/li>\n<li>Creates terrorists by placing a foreign military presence in other sovereign nations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This sh%$ simply has to stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama has signed of on building an archipelago of secret drone bases in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula: The Obama administration is assembling a constellation of secret drone bases for counterterrorism operations in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula as part of a newly aggressive campaign to attack al-Qaeda affiliates in Somalia and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1095,981,1211,986,982,1152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-civil-war","category-defense","category-middle-east","category-stupid","category-uav"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}