Great Question......coming out of MSNBC even

[sirs]

...And how's that touted beacon of successful Obama Foreign Policy in Yemen, doing?

[Xavier_Onassis]

Please, sirs, tell us what a great solution to the problems in Yemen might be.

You claim to know so much more, surely you have some idea of what a perfect foreign policy in Yemen might be.

[sirs]

The solution was not starting the fire in the 1st place.  Now that Obama has burned down what he touted as one of his greatest foreign policy accomplishments, the solution is actually coming up with a coherent foreign policy, with specific emphasis in dealing with that growing "JV threat", as exemplified by ISIS, AlQeada, Boko Hiram, now in full blown professional mode.  At THIS point, that's going to require a far larger military footprint than just some drones, but more so, letting our Arab allies know we'll support you, and not just with blankets & some rations

[Xavier_Onassis]

The US did nothing to start any rebel activity in Yemen or Nigeria.

I see you have no better plan for Yemen than our President. 

Yemen is vastly more of a threat to Saudi Arabia than the US.   

[sirs]

The U.S. did NOTHING to STOP the spread of radical Islam, in its various incarnations, such as ISIS, and what's happening in Yemen.  Instead, we labeled them "JV", and touted how great a sucess Yemen was in U.S. foreign policy

[Xavier_Onassis]

There is no way any country can stop the spread of a religion.  When you persecute people for practicing one particular religion, that creates martyrs, and martyrs tend to cause even more sympathy for that religion.

The US can bomb people who are committing acts of terrorism, but this does not tend to be all that effective.
I think that President Obama and the State Department and people within our government that speak Arabic, know the Arabian culture and  have lived in Yemen know more than you do. You do not speak Arabic, you know little about the religion or the culture, all you know is how to attack the president. Essentially, your behavior is no more effective that the yappings of my neighbor's chihuahua. yap yap yap, arf arf arf yapyap yap yapyapyap.

[sirs]

There is no way any country can stop the spread of a religion.

Putting aside for the moment that Obama declared that ISIS and its incarnations aren't religiously affiliated, yes, you can.  You kill those who have every intention of killing us.  Espeically those who requires dying for "their cause".  They'll be considered martyrs regardless.  There's no negotiating, there's no "diplomacy", there's only killing them, like you'd kill any virus

What you think Obama and his "advisors" know about Yemen, vs what I supposedy know is completely irrelevent.  There's a plethora of military and foreign policy experts, including Democrats, that know all about their religion & culture, and have made it crystal clear just how completely disastrous Obama's current foreign policy, if you can call it even that, is....which leads to his self proclaimed "success" in Yemen

[Xavier_Onassis]

You don't know shit about foreign policy, sirs.

The US had nothing to do with the turmoil in Yemen, and there is nothing that the US can do other than keep Yemenis from attacking the US. That should not be too difficult.

This is a Saudi problem, actually.

Most Yemenis are hooked on a narcotic leaf called qat.  A lot of qat is imported from Africa, and Yemen is short of water because so much of the available water is used to irrigate this crop.  The use and commerce in qat is the cause of much of the unrest there.

[sirs]

I know just as much foreign policy AMBE as you do.  Never claimed that the U.S. had "something to do" with what's happening in Yemen.  I claimed its what they haven't done, and there is PLENTY the U.S. should have been doing all along, but chose to try and deal with these monsters diplomatically, call them JV, and with the occasional drone strike that apparently has done nothing but stirred up a hive of angry bees

And if you think the radical Islamic movement taking over Yemen has to do with qat, you are seriously derranged.     

[Xavier_Onassis]

Pretty much everything that happens in Yemen is connected with qat in one way or another.\

[url]http://www.wanderingearl.com/chewing-qat-with-locals-in-yemen//url]

[sirs]

Riiiiight      Perhaps in a .2% one way or .1% in another.   I hope at least when you're smoking it, it gives you a great buzz, since it would help explain so many of these postings of yours

[Xavier_Onassis]

Go to Yemen, why don't you.

You know nothing about Yemen.

It is pretty clear that nearly all the strife in Yemen is from the local area. The US is not going to invade Yemen, so what happens there is mostly up to the Yemenis. Blaming Obama is just stupid.

[Christians4LessGvt]

Yemen is vastly more of a threat to Saudi Arabia than the US.

yeah SIRS when Hitler took over Poland and other countries....that was vastly not a direct threat to the US.
So sit back and watch Hitler gobble up country after country....no worries.
Same thing now....why worry if Iran or other IslamoNazis gobble up country after country?
Or why even worry if they gets nukes and the means to delivery them on Chicago?
Hey why worry about your house burning down until it is fully engulfed?
Why not leave your front door unlocked and just deal with a home invasion once it actually happens?
 

[sirs]

Precisely

[sirs]

Go to Yemen, why don't you.

Why don't you

You know nothing about Yemen.

I KNOW that Yemen was touted, by Obama himself, as being the shining star of his foreign policy initiatives

It is pretty clear that nearly all the strife in Yemen is from the local area.

Of course its local.....local to the surrounding radical Islamic terrorists, that are taking it over.

The US is not going to invade Yemen

Ahh, I was suprised it took so long for you to pull out the "invasion card"....that standard hyperbolic practice of arguing a point no one is making   

what happens there is mostly up to the Yemenis. Blaming Obama is just stupid.

Blaming Obama for allowing the virus Isis and its offshoots to grow is perfectly within reason.  The fact they're mutating and spreading, invading those countries that they can, with the help of the local terrorist cells, has been facilitated precisely by the policies of this President and his foreign policy efforts,  It has precious little, if anything, to do with kat