For those of you who have been in a medically induced coma, or who decided to spend the Obama presidency in a drunken stupor and have unexpectedly sobered up, the situation in Yemen has gone from dire to completely f***ed up to a crisis. The sorta-mostly friendly government was overthrown by Iranian backed rebels; US Marines charged with protecting our embassy were disarmed on the way out of the country and all their equipment abandoned; US intelligence was turned over to the Iranians (which, to Obama, may be a feature not a bug as he’s more open with the Iranians than with our allies or the Congress); US special forces abandoned their last base in Yemen; and now the Saudis and ten other Arab nations have begun military operations to restore the previous regime.
The signal foreign policy accomplishment of the Obama administration seems destined to be setting the stage for a full-blown thermo-nuclear war. Under Obama, Libya, Egypt, Syria, and Iraq have been destabilized as a direct result of policies implemented by Obama. Yemen has teetered on the brink of anarchy for decades but even the fragile veneer of stability has been effectively knocked in the dirt under Obama. Jordan, like Yemen, has always been a potential powder keg and the policies of Obama have made a civil war there a very real possibility. The quick march towards possession of a nuclear weapon by Iran that Obama is intent on has guaranteed the Saudis will use some of their vast wealth to buy weapons from Pakistan if not develop their own. Turkey will be forced to follow suit.
And Josh Earnest is still lying.
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