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"US to Americans in Yemen: Seek Help From India"
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2015 Apr 8, 1:54pm 2,880 views 7 comments
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I know every statist makes fun of Somalian "anarchy" here. How much do we spend on defense again?
"Mokhtar Alkhanshali, a San Francisco native who is currently in Sanaa, said he never received a response from the State Department. “The U.S. coordinated with Saudi on logistics, so they must have been aware of what was coming,†he told Al Jazeera. “And yet we received no warning. If India and Somalia can find a way to evacuate their nationals, why can’t the U.S.?â€
HydroCabron
2015 Apr 8, 2:24pm
“And yet we received no warning. If India and Somalia can find a way to evacuate their nationals, why can’t the U.S.?â€
So you think the Statist Department should save him - how Keynesian of you. Government is never the solution; it is always the problem.
The free market is better suited to resolving this man's predicament. In a libertoonian paradise, there is no Statist Department. Entrepreneurs will compete for this man's business, and he will be saved, if he is cost-effective.
justme
2015 Apr 8, 2:37pm
So you think the Statist Department should save him. This sounds downright Keynesian to me. Government is never the solution; it is always the problem.
The free market is better suited to resolving this man's predicament. In a libertoonian paradise, there is no Statist Department. Entrepreneurs will compete for this man's business, and he will be saved, if he is cost-effective.
As quite often is the case, I feel compelled to point out that HydroCabron is being virulently sarcastic here. Why? Well, I'm just not sure that most right-wingers even understand the irony of being against "statism" (*) while at the same time demanding that the US state come and rescue Americans in Yemen.
(*) what a massively lame term "statism" is. Does anyone know who invented that propaganda term, and when?
I love Prog-logic.
If one criticizes the ineffectiveness of the US Government bureaucracy despite the billions we pay in taxes every year - we must want NO GOVERNMENT.
It's either top down Commie authoritarian control or its Thunderdome anarchy!
No middle ground for Progs!
So you think the Statist Department should save him - how Keynesian of you. Government is never the solution; it is always the problem.
The free market is better suited to resolving this man's predicament. In a libertoonian paradise, there is no Statist Department. Entrepreneurs will compete for this man's business, and he will be saved, if he is cost-effective.
This does not make sense. The government is in charge of this work, and hence a marketplace for this simply does not exist. Moreover, in a global scale, governments are competing with one another in helping their citizens. The current administration seems to be a miserable failure in this regard.
As quite often is the case, I feel compelled to point out that HydroCabron is being virulently sarcastic here. Why? Well, I'm just not sure that most right-wingers even understand the irony of being against "statism" (*) while at the same time demanding that the US state come and rescue Americans in Yemen.
(*) what a massively lame term "statism" is. Does anyone know who invented that propganda term, and when?
Do you understand that "national defense" is under the Government control as per the constitution? We outspend every other country in the world and bomb everywhere, including Yemen. And we don't have resources to save citizens. You and Hydro have become neocons since Dems are in power now. You would have criticized the same if Bush had been in power this time.
http://yemen.usembassy.gov/messages040615.html
"The Indian government has offered to assist U.S. citizens who want to depart Yemen for Djibouti. This potentially includes flights out of Sana’a and ships from Aden. U.S. citizens wishing to take advantage of this opportunity should contact First Secretary Raj Kopal at the Indian Embassy in Sana’a at 00967 734 000 657; you may be required to present a valid U.S. passport for boarding. The next flights from Sana’a are scheduled to depart early on April 7. The Department of State cautions that U.S. citizens should consider carefully the risks of traveling to or within Sana’a and Aden in order to board evacuation transport given security conditions in both cities."
MisdemeanorRebel
2015 Apr 8, 5:37pm
Hey, we spent hundreds of billions on a Homeland Security and FEMA bureaucracy that was supposed to react decisively in the face of Chemical, Nuclear, Biological Attacks.
They couldn't handle a routine hurricane landing in a typical location.
Nice job by Obama. And no one cares to report this.
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/04/07/us-to-americans-in-yemen-seek-help-from-india
The U.S. government is telling Americans who want to escape the security chaos in Yemen to seek assistance from an NGO and India, according to a message from the evacuated U.S. embassy in Sanaa.
“There are no plans for a U.S. government-coordinated evacuation of U.S. citizens at this time,†noted a Monday message on the website for the U.S. embassy in Yemen, a component of the State Department. “If you wish to depart Yemen, you should stay alert for other opportunities to leave the country.â€
China, India, France, Russia, Canada, and other countries have reportedly evacuated their citizens from war-torn Yemen.
Meanwhile, the abandoned U.S. embassy, in the April 6 message, announced that “the Indian government has offered to assist U.S. citizens who want to depart Yemen for Djibouti.â€
The embassy also announced that “the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is planning to arrange a flight from Sana’a to Djibouti the week of April 6†and urged Americans in Yemen to contact the international migration rights NGO.
The message warned that “the Department of State cannot guarantee that all U.S. citizens seeking to depart via an IOM flight can be accommodated.â€
All U.S. citizens seeking to leave the country must show valid United States passports.
An Indian government official revealed on Twitter that 23 countries, including the United States, have asked for India’s assistance with evacuating citizens from Yemen.
The official claims that the Indian government has already evacuated some Americans from Yemen.
Although the United States has military assets in the vicinity of Yemen, Marie Harf, a State Department spokeswoman, said last week that “doing something like sending in military assets, even for an evacuation, could put U.S. citizen lives at greater risk.â€
Advocacy groups estimate that hundreds of Americans on Yemen, many with dual U.S.-Yemeni citizenship, need assistance.
The U.S. closed its embassy in Yemen after Iran-backed Houthi rebels seized the presidential palace and key government buildings in Sanaa.
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