US pursues control of oil, military bases in Yemen

Press: Why does the United States insist in carrying out these drones strikes in Yemen?
 
From the people’s perspective and on the people’s side, it’s just rising anti-American sentiments and it also leaves a question mark over how the Yemeni government is dealing with these drone strikes.
 
Schoenman: Well, indeed the drone strikes that have been escalating in Yemen are focused and they’ve been targeting Yemen for a very specific purpose.
 
    Yemeni officials declared Wednesday they had disrupted a so-called terrorist plot against port, gas and oil facilities. But according to New America Foundation, these air strikes are on civilians and on cars that are driven by people who are in no way connected to political activity.
 
    In fact, 849 people who have been killed have been simply civilians who have no connection other than they are hostile to the United States as is most of the population.
 
 
 
As Huffington Post has pointed out, Yemen sits across the strategically crucial Gulf of Aden and commands the Bab el Mandeb Strait, which controls access to the Red Sea.
 
    World Tribune reported that the United States has long term plans to build three military bases in Yemen in order to strengthen America’s military presence in the country.
 
    And as the Yemen Times reported, 35 international companies are jockeying for access to 20 new oil extraction sites in the country. That is what this is really about with respect to Yemen.
 
 
 
And indeed it’s also of course the pretext for providing a generalized right to attack anybody with remote control drones that are targeting civilians across Yemen; and across the world for that matter.
 
It is of course linked directly to the fact that 75 percent of the population of the United States, according to the Washington Post, not only supports Edward Snowden, but totally rejects the reality of unrestrained spying on all communications of US citizens in violation of fundamental constitutional protections: Bill of Rights and indeed the privacy of citizens and of journalists and of the public at large, which is resented and resisted by the public of the United States.
 
And that’s what underlies this essentially because the reality is that the war in Yemen has no base of support in the United States.
 
And underlying that I have to emphasize that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey will travel to the Middle East arriving in Israel on Monday meeting with top Israeli General Benny Gantz and Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu to discuss "threats that emanate out of the region globally into the homeland."
 
And they are making specific plans in Jordan with respect to Iran and with respect to Syria.
 
The war on terror as it is put forward is a war for expanding US and Israeli control of the region for provoking new wars with Iran and Syria in their sights; with operations already unfolding in Jordan and Yemen is essentially the ‘Judas goat’ for this operation - targeting the population at large; targeting the city of Sana’a in particular and utilizing drones as the means of terrorizing the entire country.