Daily Beast: The U.S. Has ‘Abandoned’ the Americans in Yemen
Unlike China and India, the United States has conducted no large-scale evacuations of its citizens since the civil war began. Now Yemeni Americans say their relatives are stranded.
For most Americans, Yemen’s civil war is the latest flashpoint in what seems like a remote, never-ending crisis in the Middle East. But for many in New York City’s Yemeni community, it’s a personal tragedy as they try to help family members, some of them American citizens, who are stranded in Yemen without any U.S. plan to evacuate them.
“Thousands of Yemeni Americans are stuck in Yemen, and no one in the U.S. is talking about it,” said Ibraham Qatabi, a legal worker at the Center for Constitutional Rights and Yemeni-American activist.
Update: Stranded Americans fend for themselves in war-torn Yemen -- CNN
WNU Editor: This is one of the most under-reported stories in the U.S. .... you have to wonder why.
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Maybe if they took up arms against the Saudis and displayed the American flag the whole issue could become even more complicated and the US might go in and get them out if only to save one of its faces.
At this point Americans in general must be very afraid of what is going on in the world and just how many conflicts their government has gotten them into. It would seem advisable from the government's perspective to have the media play this down.
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