{"id":59129,"date":"2015-04-07T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T14:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59129"},"modified":"2015-04-07T09:28:28","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T13:28:28","slug":"saudis-ask-for-troops-for-yemen-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59129","title":{"rendered":"Saudis ask for troops for Yemen invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2015\/apr\/6\/saudis-seek-troops-from-pakistan-ahead-of-possible\/\">The Washington Times<\/a> reports that the Saudis are asking for troops from Pakistan to help them kill Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen. The Saudis have been using airstrikes to keep the Shiite rebels off-balanced along with some US help;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere is U.S. strategic interest in returning some sense of stability to Yemen. The issue is, I don\u2019t think there is a political appetite including among Americans for a ground war,\u201d said Seth Jones, director of the International Security and Defense Policy Center at Rand Corp. \u201cI don\u2019t know that the U.S. wants to get directly engaged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A 20-person joint committee in Ridayh, Saudi Arabia, including a \u201chandful\u201d of U.S. advisers, is providing intelligence to the Saudis to create a battleground picture, including general locations of the enemy and \u201cno strike\u201d areas that could contribute to collateral damage, the senior defense official said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A scant few months ago, the Obama Administration was pointing at Yemen as their shining example of their own brand of the war against terror, today, not so much. I guess the &#8220;Obama Touch&#8221; is the opposite of the &#8220;Midas Touch&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times reports that the Saudis are asking for troops from Pakistan to help them &hellip; <a title=\"Saudis ask for troops for Yemen invasion\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59129\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saudis ask for troops for Yemen invasion<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}