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U.S. President Barack Obama said he has...
Yemen"s President Ali Abdullah Saleh, first elected in 1999, then reelected for a second term until 2013, is in control of about 40% of the country, which has already amnestied several Al-Qaeda fighters, where corruption has reached an incredible scale and a guerilla warfare is flaring in the north.As for Somalia, any "effective partnership" with that country"s government is out of the question, since it is in control only of the capital city at best.
Therefore, Obama"s statement would have been highly confusing if the international community didn"t know the background of his current "fronts." The U.S. president certainly has too much on his plate at this point to open a new front in Yemen, not with ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and an additional "antinuclear" front in Iran.
Yemen"s territory of 528,000 sq km is bigger than Iraq, although smaller than Afghanistan. Most American analysts agree that invading it could lead to disastrous consequences
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