Worthy read!-----Yemen: an issue to work around, not a problem to be solved

Yemen is like a few other nations that history warns everyone just not to mess around with too much. - CDR Salamander

Russia is one. 

• We’re familiar with what happens when you ignore the warnings about Afghanistan. 

You can put Vietnam on that list, and China too. 

• There is never enough juice worth the squeeze to justify a general war against any of them unless you think you are really ready—and able—to pay the price.

Many in the West forget what happened in Yemen 60 years ago.
Here’s the executive summary...
Time to focus.

• We will not enforce our will on Yemen. 
• Sixty years ago, even the Egyptians using poison gas couldn’t.