DOWD: As the Nation’s Pulse Races, Obama Can’t Seem to Find His
If we can't catch a Nigerian with explosives in feminine underpants, whose father alerted the U.S. embassy, whose ticket was bought in cash, who didn’t check bags, whose visa was denied by the UK, who studied in Yemen, whose name was on a watch list, who can we catch? We can always go catch some dark-skinned man from somewhere or some Arab, whatever, or if we're not happy with that, we can go bomb yet another country to smithereens...
Korea and China 1950-53,
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Cuba 1959-1961
Guatemala 1960
Congo 1964
Laos 1964-73
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Cambodia 1969-70
Guatemala 1967-69
Grenada 1983
Lebanon 1983, 1984
Libya 1986
El Salvador 1980s
Nicaragua 1980s
Iran 1987
Panama 1989
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Kuwait 1991
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Sudan 1998
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Yugoslavia 1999
Yemen 2002
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AntiWar: US Set for Fresh Yemen Attacks, but Where? Officials Say Talks With Yemeni Govt Aimed at Picking New Targets: The problem, officials say, is picking where to lob the missiles. Officials say American special forces are working with the Yemeni government to try to figure out which would be a good place to attack next. The ideal, they say, would be if they were able to link some site to the lap bomber.