Appearing on Fox News Sunday, independent Senator Joseph Lieberman suggested the United States should preemptively attack Yemen in light of the failed airline bombing.

Sen. Lieberman: “I was in Yemen in August. And we have a growing presence there, and we have to, of Special Operations, Green Berets, intelligence. We’re working well with the government of President Saleh there. I leave you with this thought that somebody in our government said to me in Sana’a, the capital of Yemen. Iraq was yesterday’s war. Afghanistan is today’s war. If we don’t act preemptively, Yemen will be tomorrow’s war.”

In related news on Yemen, the New York Times reports the CIA sent several of its top field operatives with counterterrorism experience to Yemen a year ago. At the same time, some of the most secretive Special Operations commandos have begun training Yemeni security forces in counterterrorism tactics.