Source: www.wnd.com - Saturday, January 31, 2015
Chaos in Yemen is leading to even greater Middle East instability, shines the spotlight of failure on a nation President Obama hailed as a foreign policy success just four months ago and forces an even tougher negotiating position with the Iranians, according to retired U.S. Navy Capt. Chuck Nash. As he laid out his approach to confronting the Islamic State, or ISIS, in September, Obama cited numerous operations targeting terrorists in Yemen as a major success of his effort to take the fight to the terrorists. “We took out Osama bin Laden and much of al-Qaida’s leadership in Afghanistan and Pakistan,” Obama said. “We’ve targeted al-Qaida’s affiliate in Yemen, and recently eliminated the top commander of its affiliate in Somalia.” Nash said that’s looking pretty bad in hindsight. “It just adds to the overall instability and the mess that the Middle East has become ever since the Arab Spring,” he said. “This was the knife in the heart of Yemen, which the president has been holding out as a way of modeling our success post-Arab Spring.” Yemen has a complicated history in the fight against radical Islamic terrorism. Even before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, al-Qaida attacked the USS Cole as it refueled in Yemen, killing 17 Navy personnel. Since 9/11, the Yemeni government sporadically assisted in the fight against al-Qaida even as the terror group’s Yemeni chapter, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, grew in size and effect
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Chaos in Yemen is leading to even greater Middle East instability, shines the spotlight of failure on a nation President Obama hailed as a foreign policy success just four months ago and forces an even tougher negotiating position with the Iranians, according to retired U.S. Navy Capt. Chuck Nash. As he laid out his approach to confronting the Islamic State, or ISIS, in September, Obama cited numerous operations targeting terrorists in Yemen as a major success of his effort to take the fight to the terrorists. “We took out Osama bin Laden and much of al-Qaida’s leadership in Afghanistan and Pakistan,” Obama said. “We’ve targeted al-Qaida’s affiliate in Yemen, and recently eliminated the top commander of its affiliate in Somalia.” Nash said that’s looking pretty bad in hindsight. “It just adds to the overall instability and the mess that the Middle East has become ever since the Arab Spring,” he said. “This was the knife in the heart of Yemen, which the president has been holding out as a way of modeling our success post-Arab Spring.” Yemen has a complicated history in the fight against radical Islamic terrorism. Even before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, al-Qaida attacked the USS Cole as it refueled in Yemen, killing 17 Navy personnel. Since 9/11, the Yemeni government sporadically assisted in the fight against al-Qaida even as the terror group’s Yemeni chapter, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, grew in size and effectfrom Top News on RSS Feeds http://ift.tt/1uNDmbm
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