ABC News: White House Continues to Back Yemen as Model For Successful Counterterrorism
The White House continues to hail Yemen -- a country that is descending into chaos -- as a model for fighting extremism, Press Secretary Josh Earnest said today.
“The White House does continue to believe that a successful counter-terrorism strategy is one that will build up the capacity of the central government to have local fighters on the ground to take the fight to extremists in their own country,” Earnest told reporters at the White House. “That is a template that has succeeded in mitigating the threat that we face from extremists in places like Yemen.”
President Obama has long pointed to the counterterrorism campaign in Yemen as a model for the fight against ISIS.
“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,” Obama said in September as he outlined his strategy to degrade and destroy ISIS.
WNU Editor: WTF !?!?!?!
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The situation will probably force Saudi Arabia to intervene, especially to keep the sea lane of Bab al Mandeb open. This should include Egyptian involvement, probably in overt direct fashion. We should also see the movement away from Washington of a coalition of Sunni governments. As a side note all of this now puts more pressure on Turkey to publicly declare itself as to it's position in the growing conflict.
And Christianity sounds like a good religion but it has never been tried.
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