Friday, January 29, 2010

US help for some allies needs to be low-profile: general

US help for some allies needs to be low-profile: general: "The US military needs to act discreetly when assisting some allies in the fight against Al-Qaeda extremists, as it has in Yemen, a top general said on Thursday.
'What we increasingly have to do is figure out how to help countries that need our assistance but can't necessarily be seen as accepting that assistance in a very visible way,' US Army Chief of Staff General George Casey said in remarks at the Brookings Institution,"