THE LEGACY OF THE POTUS BHO WITH ALL THE MILITARY HARDWARE AND THE GREATEST MILITARY AFFORDED TO HIM–HE STILL MANAGES TO LOSE YEMEN A CLOSE ALLY OF THE USA–IT JUST GOES TO SHOW GIVE A LEFTIST LIBERAL POWER AND THE DEMOCRAT WILL SQUANDER IT AWAY–JUST LIKE IRAN WITH JIMMY CARTER

What went wrong for the U.S.-backed government in Yemen and what are the consequences for counterterrorism operations there against al-Qaida’s most dangerous affiliate? Both questions have disturbing answers.
President Obama touted Yemen just last September as a country where the U.S. “successfully” was “taking out terrorists who threaten us, while supporting partners on the front lines.” Some administration officials feared Obama’s boast would haunt him, and sure enough, just over a week later, Shiite rebels from the Houthi movement seized the Yemeni capital, Saana.
Last week, after four months of relentless pressure from the Houthis and the collapse of his military, President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi resigned. Yemen became another shard of the splintering Middle East. The two most powerful forces, the Iran-backed Houthis and al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, are both strongly anti-American.
What happened in Yemen is not very different from the stories of other Arab nations shaken by the “Arab Spring” revolutions. Armies that had seemed strong under authoritarian rulers crumpled against insurgents. U.S. military intervention hasn’t checked the disintegration, nor has American retreat. The conclusion is so obvious we sometimes overlook it: This history is being written by the Arabs, not outsiders. Foreign assistance can help strong, broadly based governments, but not fragile, polarized ones.
Yemen looked like a place where the U.S. had learned lessons from the disastrous 2003 Iraq invasion. The U.S. wanted to replace a corrupt dictator, Ali Abdullah Saleh, but the deal to install Hadi in February 2012 was brokered by the regional powers of the Gulf Cooperation Council. America offered military help, but with the light footprint of special forces, rather than an Iraq-style occupying army. The U.S. sought compromise through a “national dialogue” and a U.N.-sponsored constitutional process.

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