The Middle East is a mess alright. Your friend on one issue is your enemy on another, and it changes over time.
On the one hand, it is entertaining that the Saudis are now on the hook for stabilizing and rebuilding Yemen instead of us (under the You break it, You bought it rule).
But on the other hand it sucks, because what they will build will likely be anti-American at heart.
I can’t believe Obama let Saudi Arabia invade Yemen. We are even helping SA with logistics. What is the real agenda here? Is Obama trying to blow SA up?
Decisions in SA are made in a very, very small circle. What do the rest of the elites think about this adventure? What do military officers especially think?
As usual, the US based media pays no attention to the military aspect of a war.
Yemen is ideal country(and culture) for guerilla warfare. Few want really Hadi in charge, the people supporting him now have their own agendas. The other side is the same way.
The Houthis work with America against al-Qaeda, but chant “Death to America.”
The more you know about this wacky country, the less appetizing intervention looks. That’s presumably why the media doesn’t cover this fascinating and highly entertaining war more deeply.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d04_1440325406
Don’t know the accuracy of the title, but that is in Yemen.
BTW, if anyone wants to really follow the war in Yemen, Syria, Iraq etc., do it through twitter, liveleak and youtube. People are on the ground near where the battles are happening and are online and reporting 24 hours a day through phones. It’s up to the viewer to filter out a coherent narrative from primary source material. Disinformation and propaganda is everywhere. Nothing is without an agenda. Don’t bother with lame mass media coverage that is not just all biased propaganda, but vague, uninformative propaganda. You can read a million articles about the Yemen war from BBC, CNN, NYT, WSJ etc. and learn almost nothing but vacuous quotes from politicians.
“Naughty” sources like al-Jazeera, Press-TV, al-Manar, RT are of course all propaganda, but they at least show some combat videos and give names of places where battles are happening. Take that information to the internet. Find out where the video came from or search for the hashtag on twitter of the name of the place of a battle. Often you will find the initial information was not entirely accurate, but leads you to the truth.
Western media coverage is about the discourse in Washington, not the actual wars. That’s why you can follow mainstream media and not know basic facts about who is fighting who, what is happening militarily and so forth. That’s how you get people who think al-Qaeda are Shiites(”cause they’re both bad”) or don’t know that Yemen is a very mountainous country(”cause the middle east is a desert”).
You learn more from a possibly mislabeled video or obvious false flag rumor than you do by hearing Samantha powers drone on about human rights.