Thursday, April 9, 2015

Is Yemen Going To Be Saudi Arabia's Quagmire?



Hugh Naylor, Washington Post: For Saudis, Yemen conflict risks ‘becoming their Vietnam’

BEIRUT — Two weeks into a Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen, the airstrikes appear to have accelerated the country’s fragmentation into warring tribes and militias and done little to accomplish the goal of returning the ousted Yemeni president to power, analysts and residents say.

The Yemeni insurgents, known as Houthis, have pushed ahead with their offensive and seem to have protected many of their weapons stockpiles from the coalition’s bombardments, analysts say. The fighting has killed hundreds of people, forced more than 100,000 people to flee their homes and laid waste to the strategic southern city of Aden.


WNU Editor: It is too early to make such a claim.

2 comments:

Bob Huntley said...

Let's hope so.

Anonymous said...

We have yet to see the Saudi Arabian soldier actually fight. They may give the Iraqi army a run for their money in running away.