Notebook, 10 May 2011: Politics As Usual . . .

(h/t to Laura Rozen aka The Cable, blogging at Foreign Policy)

This one makes my bullshit antennae twitch, or is our first salvo in a post-bin Laden world of our efforts to eradicate Islamic terror and isolate Iran (yes, Iran).

Or it is just more of the pure power politics of the same stripe which cost Yemen $73 million in US aid when it failed to vote for Desert Storm in 1991, after which the American ambassador famously said to his colleague from Yemen, “That was the most expensive vote you will have cast.”