U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter walks along the tarmac with Chief of Staff Eric Rosenbach (L) and a member of his security team before boarding an E-4B military aircraft at Queen Alia Airport in Amman, Jordan, Wednesday, July 22, 2015, en route to King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. REUTERS/Carolyn Kaster/Pool
Washington Times: Ashton Carter: Obama failed to anticipate Iran’s role in Yemeni rebellion
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter says the Obama administration failed to anticipate that Iranian-backed Houthis rebels could, or would, oust the Yemeni government which had been a strong U.S. counter-terrorism ally.
“With respect to the Houthis in Yemen, I think our assessment is that no one anticipated, probably even the Houthis themselves, the success that they had, success defined from their point of view, in causing the toppling of the government and the subsequent humanitarian disaster that has occurred in Yemen,” Mr. Carter said, after meeting this week with Saudi Arabian rulers as part of a Middle East tour to ease concerns about the new nuclear agreement with Iran.
WNU Editor: President Obama was touting Yemen as a success story only a few months ago .... so yes to the question that the U.S. did fail to anticipate what was going to happen in Yemen.
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