The toppling of the Yemeni government by Iranian backed Shi’ite Houthis has upped the ante in the regional sectarian Sunni-Shi’ite struggle. Yemen is perfectly set to become a sectarian war that will see millions more in foreign funds transferred to various proxy forces in the country, as in the case of the ongoing civil war in Syria.
They should be free to kill one another until they are sick of it.
“Yemen is a failed state, and this was even before the 2011 Arab uprisings,” said Rabi, adding that the Houthi coup is a “watershed event.”
Rabi's nickname in college was
MOTO.
“Saudi Arabia tried going to war with the Houthis in 2009, and they got clobbered,” said Weinberg, noting that “well over 100 Saudi soldiers were killed, and the debacle ruined the career of Khaled bin Sultan, a Saudi prince who had been one of the kingdom’s top security chiefs at the time but is now largely out of the picture.”
The Saudis have the money to do this by proxy. There seems to be no shortage of young men who want to go overseas and kill infidels.
We saw them in Afghanistan.
We saw them in Iraq.
We saw them in Libya
We saw them in Syria.
We'll see them in Yemen (if they aren't there already).
Hmm, doesn't this all smell very familiar? All of these young men who want to go overseas and kill infidels and make their names ... sounds like a
Crusade without a cross. (
Crux being the Latin root word of that term).
Among Islam's adherents, the Crescent as the more typical symbol.
Why don't the PTB of the Muslim world call this what it is, and call on these young men to go on the
Crescade? (Not sure how that would scan in Arabic, but I am making a play on words in English here ... )
They are already doing this, just not quite as overtly as the Popes used to.