Here comes a hot loaf now, right from a Yemeni island kitchen, set up for our troops, or, so says the wrapper: Baked up nice and fresh! Have a nice day! Uncle Sam's Bakery's not pulling up stakes anytime soon. Looks like we'll always be able to have our cake and eat it, too.
Thousands of troops are now offloaded at a Yemeni island, Socotra, off the tip of Somalia, southeast of Yemen. The place is called "the other Galapagos," by some, more than 700 species found nowhere else in the world. Welcome to the possible conflict zone, all you species.
The report is very careful to note, you see, that thousands of troops have been moved in for a possible armed conflict with Iran. See the language, how it dances all over the floor, threatening to melt and bond with the wood, right into the dance floor: Snow is possible in winter, hot days are possible in summer, too. All these other pokes and probes to try and artificially pick a fight with Iran, in coordination with Israel, with statements about possibilities maybe in the spring...
How much is posing, how much is chest-thumping, how much is all-show-versus-all-go?
In a moment not to be missed, right in the middle of this, Madonna fans in Israel are pleading with their prime minister to delay any war until after the May 29 concert in Tel Aviv -- how's that for priorities?
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