{"id":58887,"date":"2015-03-24T10:55:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T14:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58887"},"modified":"2015-03-24T11:24:04","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T15:24:04","slug":"yemen-the-template-for-strategy-in-me-collapses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58887","title":{"rendered":"Yemen, the template for strategy in ME collapses"},"content":{"rendered":"

A scant few months, the President touted his strategy in Yemen as a model for future operations in the war against Islamic extremism. Millions of US dollars in equipment has since been lost, the Yemeni president is out-of-office, and the parliament has been dissolved. The US embassy has been evacuated and the last US troops have been withdrawn. al Qaeda-backed<\/del> Shiite rebels run the failed government. From Fox News<\/a>;<\/p>\n

The shift has left Obama open to criticism that he failed to anticipate the risks of a light footprint strategy that aims to put fragile governments and beleaguered local security forces, not the U.S. military, at the forefront.<\/p>\n

Barbara Bodine, a former U.S. ambassador to Yemen, said even the most optimistic regional experts did not share Obama’s view that the Yemen campaign was a model of success.<\/p>\n

“It was being defined in terms of what we were doing to develop local forces and use drones and counter the immediate and real security threat,” said Bodine, now director of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University. “But what we hadn’t done, certainly had not done visibly enough, was get at the economic and governance issues that were driving the problem.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Again with the economic BS. There is an entirely military solution – fight these scum unrelentingly until so many of the die horrible, painful deaths that the others decide that it’s not worth it to fight. You know, the whole purpose of fighting wars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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