Underwear Triumphs Over All

Fundamentals: The Euro-crisis is so bad that it is out weighing good news from the Long War.

Long War: The beating heart of the dark beast is southern Yemen, where there are more Al-Qaeda jihadists than all of Pakistan and Afghanistan combined, where the evil ones have carved out a fetid kingdom and built a fully functioning modern army.

A huge offensive was launched against AQAP five days ago. The Yemeni Army has thrown 20,000 troops into a wrecking machine that includes at least another 10,000 allied tribal militiamen, trained by the CIA. The Green Berets are leading this juggernaut. CIA and Special Forces drones are filling the sky with hellfire missiles, too numerous to count, in obvious close air support, in fact directed by Green Beret commanders fighting and leading on the front lines. US Navy warships are also supporting the offensive with withering fire from positions close off shore.

Local Yemeni media reports that over 100 bad guys have been killed so far. The good guys are achieving 4-1 kill ratios. In previous battles AQAP had the favorable kill ratios, thank God this has reversed since this one statistic usually determines the winner of a battle. AQAP is getting knocked back from long held territory. A knife is being thrust into the dark beast's beating heart, splling acid blood on the desert sand.

And the western press is almost completely ignoring this battle. There are US boots on the ground, fighting without Congressional permission. The US Navy is in a war. The press is giving the most important battle in the world a big yawn. It's hard for me to believe but the big yawn seems to be a result of the Yemeni underwear bomb story. Today there is a press account circulating about the size and shape of the explosive underwear that the CIA acquired from its double agent. This deadly underwear is so tailored that it would pass any normal pat down, so the story goes. I guess there is only so much copy allowed in a given media publication concerning Yemen and fitted explosive underwear takes precedence over the most important battle of our time.

The Iranian leadership is not yawning. As the anti-nuclear peace talks ramp up, Iran is making all sorts of conciliatory noise. You can be sure that the combination of America up to its neck in a regional war and no media publications covering this fact is terrifying to bad guys around the world. Muzzling the media is a specialty of CIA Director Petraeus. I am in awe of his genius. How could he know that explosive underwear trumps US Navy frigates shelling bad guys?