It is becoming clear what the U.S. plans for Syria are when Obama is citing Yemen as a “model” for what he wishes Syria to become.
President Barack Obama told G8 leaders meeting at Camp David that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad must leave power, and pointed to Yemen as a model of how political transition could work there, the White House said on Saturday.
So Yemen is a model but for what?
For a fake election with only one person on the ballot and no way to vote against that person?
For persistent civil war with multiple parties:
On one side of Arhab’s conflict are tribesmen linked to Islah, the country’s most powerful Islamist party, and Ali Muhsin al Ahmar, a renegade general. On the other side are Republican Guard troops led by Saleh’s son, Ahmed Ali Saleh.
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Muhsin — whose Islah party is now part of Hadi’s coalition government — and Ahmed Ali have each sent only one company of troops to the south, said a senior Yemeni official close to Hadi, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.Muhsin’s troops in particular have abundant experience fighting insurrections, having fought six civil wars against Shiite Houthi rebels in the north.
“Al-Qaeda will get stronger if this situation continues in the capital,” said Sultan al-Barakani, a top ruling party official.
For seriously wounded U.S. soldiers who “helped train Yemeni coastguards”?
There are at least four parties fighting each other all over Yemen and in between the U.S. and its Forward Air Controllers are bombing these or those “signature” emitting humans. Why is that supposed to be a model for Syria?
Would the U.S. soldiers that already train to seize Syria’s chemical weapons really be welcomed with sweets and flowers? Isn’t there already another not-so-good model case for that?
No. I do not think that anyone sane in Syria or elsewhere would consider Yemen to be a good “model” for their country.
Only someone who wants to completely destroy the Syrian state could make that “model” case. But we already know that exactly this, like in Libya, is what the U.S. really wants.