Quote:Because Yemen has been repeatedly touted as a U.S. counter terrorism success for several months. They were still standing behind that claim last week despite the U.S. friendly president being forced to flee the country, and Saudi Arabia bombing Iranian backed rebels.


They can't turn around and send our military in to extract U.S. citizens after telling us how successful their policies have been.


Iran is pretty much being allowed to do whatever they want. They know there won't be any real opposition from the United States because this administration wants to install them as the regional power to fill the void left by our retreat from the region.