Yemen civil war

[blastingcap]

http://www.chron.com/news/world/article/Yemen-s-neighbors-warn-of-action-if-world-fails-6082605.php

Good, make them take charge of their own matters for once. Just say NO to sending US troops over there. Yemen can't be helped, it's basically support AQ or support Iran's proxies (Houthis). And yes they are proxies, Iran has been sending Houthis weapons for instance, this is documented.

 

[Harabec]

Why should the world act instead of local countries anyway? It is their interests, anyway.
Ah...american money spent instead of theirs...

 

[unokitty]

Yemen: Obama’s Counter-Terrorism ‘Success’ Story Sinks

“This strategy of taking out terrorists who threaten us, while supporting partners on the front lines, is one that we have successfully pursued in Yemen and Somalia for years,” President Obama assured the American people last September.

Just five months after President Obama touted Yemen as a successful example of his counter-terrorism strategy at work, Yemen has descended into a complete free fall...

Things are now so bad in Yemen that the State Department announced on February 11th it was closing its embassy in Yemen for security reasons. To add insult to injury, rebels are now driving vehicles that belonged to U.S. embassy staff, and our marines were ordered to surrender their weapons before they evacuated.

Pentagon loses track of weaponry sent to Yemen in recent years

Since 2006, the US military has provided more than $400m to Yemen, according to research estimates prepared for Congress.

The US has also trained the Yemeni military, particularly on its surveillance drones...

During Barack Obama’s presidency, the US military has propped up the Yemeni security apparatus... Obama had cited Yemen as a model for the future of US counter-terrorism.

In exchange, two successive Yemeni leaders – both now deposed – have opened their country to the drone strikes and other counter-terrorism operations...

Seems like I've heard this story before. Except wasn't it a different country?

Uno

 

[gdansk]

Another civil war in Yemen? I don't think it really ended. It's been on and off since the 1962. May as well just let them be.

 

[werepossum]

Yemen: Obama’s Counter-Terrorism ‘Success’ Story Sinks


Pentagon loses track of weaponry sent to Yemen in recent years


Seems like I've heard this story before. Except wasn't it a different country?

Uno

Heard it hell, you've lived it. Seems to be our foreign policy default. Let us hope that Obama remembers when a snake is fighting a rat, it is not necessary to choose a side.

 

[blastingcap]

Yemen: Obama’s Counter-Terrorism ‘Success’ Story Sinks


Pentagon loses track of weaponry sent to Yemen in recent years


Seems like I've heard this story before. Except wasn't it a different country?

Uno

Obama's foreign policy is second only to George W. Bush's in terms of sheer stupidity.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...inning-obamas-reference-to-isis-as-a-jv-team/

 

[schmuckley]

Obama's foreign policy is second only to George W. Bush's in terms of sheer stupidity.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...inning-obamas-reference-to-isis-as-a-jv-team/

Idk..You may not remember Carter..
Personally I think in terms of worst foreign policy it goes Bush<Carter<Obama.

In terms of denigrating America..Carter<Bush<Obama.
Carter would have liked to,but Bush accomplished far more.

 

[Genx87]

Yemen: Obama’s Counter-Terrorism ‘Success’ Story Sinks


Pentagon loses track of weaponry sent to Yemen in recent years


Seems like I've heard this story before. Except wasn't it a different country?

Uno

Yeah, Iraq, and I believe the number was around 40 billion that cant be found.