Now that Obama is openly blaming Al Qaeda in Yemen as being responsible for the latest attempted terrorist attack on an airliner, saying “This is not the first time this group has targeted us,” it’s abundantly clear that the battlefield is going to shift to Yemen.

Already, in the pre-dawn hours of this morning, the British and American embassies in Yemen have been closed and their re-opening is uncertain. Washington is dramatically stepping up aid to Yemen to fight al-Qaida, and it will more than double what it was in 2009.

I have no doubt we will be sending troops into Yemen, especially in light of Obama’s aggressive rhetoric. What I do doubt is the level of actual commitment he’ll make toward achieving victory. Between his dawdling and dithering over General McChrystals troop request, which was actually for 60,000 additional but which he pared down to 40,000 in hopes of getting at least that, and so was given 30,000 more by Obama, and Obama’s Homeland Security idiot, Janet Napolitano, who has blurted what’s easily the stupidest, most jack-assinine statement of the century: “We are no longer calling them terrorist acts. We now call them ‘Man-caused disasters’ “, and both of whom thereby demonstrating their gross inexperience and complete lack of contact with reality, I have far more fear for our troops than I have expectations of success.