{"id":183218,"date":"2015-01-23T19:56:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T00:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/01\/23\/this-is-not-a-dilemma-unless-you-let-the-house-of-saud-make-it-one\/"},"modified":"2015-01-23T19:56:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T00:56:00","slug":"this-is-not-a-dilemma-unless-you-let-the-house-of-saud-make-it-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/01\/23\/this-is-not-a-dilemma-unless-you-let-the-house-of-saud-make-it-one\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Not a Dilemma Unless You Let the House of Saud Make it One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/01\/23\/world\/middleeast\/yemen-houthi-crisis-sana.html\">collapse of the Yemeni government under the assault of the Houthi militias<\/a> is a good thing for everyone but the House of Saud:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The American-backed government of Yemen abruptly collapsed Thursday night, leaving the country leaderless as it is convulsed by an increasingly powerful force of pro-Iran rebels and a resurgent Qaeda.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The resignation of the president, prime minister and cabinet took American officials by surprise and heightened the risks that Yemen, the Arab world\u2019s poorest country, would become even more of a breeding ground for Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which has claimed responsibility for audacious anti-Western attacks \u2014 including the deadly assault on Charlie Hebdo in Paris this month.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Houthi are Shia, and Al Qaeda is virulently anti-Shia, and if they take power, they will undoubtedly be an implacable foe of the terrorist organization.<\/p>\n<p>This is not an issue for the United States.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, a Houthi dominated government is likely to be better at fighting Al Qaeda, because they understand the genocidal ferocity of that group against Shiites.<\/p>\n<p>The only people who should have a problem is the House of Saud, who have been applying pressure for years to ensure the complete disenfranchisement of Shiites pretty much everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the US foreign policy establishment does not understand that their foreign policy interests are not the same as those of the Saudis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The collapse of the Yemeni government under the assault of the Houthi militias is a good thing for everyone but the House of Saud: The American-backed government of Yemen abruptly collapsed Thursday night, leaving the country leaderless as it is convulsed by an increasingly powerful force of pro-Iran rebels and a resurgent Qaeda.The resignation of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[981,964,1031,986,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war","category-foreign-relations","category-house-of-saud","category-middle-east","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}