Maybe Obama should give his Nobel Piss Prize to GW Bush, who, despite being a vegetable, at least managed not to back sectarian war across the entire Middle East Yemen at Risk of Fragmenting, Posing Challenge for U.S. 21-01-2015: ...The latest Yemen crisis raises the prospect of yet another Arab country where the United States faces rising dangers but no strong partners amid a landscape of sectarian violence. Although the Houthi rebels who now effectively control the state are at war with Al Qaeda, they are also allied with Iran and with Yemen’s former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh. The Houthis’ rise to a dominant position may set off local conflicts in ways that would give more breathing room to Al Qaeda’s local branch, which has repeatedly struck at the United States. Yemen’s elected president, Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi, is a stalwart American ally but has almost no domestic support. “The Yemeni state has always been weak, but now there’s a real danger of economic meltdown, and of the kind of fragmentation that could ultimately make Yemen almost ungovernable,” said April Alley, an analyst with the International Crisis Group, a nonprofit organization that works to resolve conflicts.
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 00:24:11 +0000
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