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White House: Country Overrun by Iran and Al Qaeda is Success Story
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On March 26, 2015 @ 3:32 pm In The Point | 2 Comments
That really tells us more about Obama’s definition of what counterterrorism is supposed to do… let the terrorists win.
Yemen’s government is on the run. The country is being taken over in parts by Iranian backed Houthi Jihadists and by Al Qaeda. Also ISIS put in an appearance with a suicide bombing that killed hundreds.
According to the White House, this is a model.
JONATHAN KARL, ABC NEWS: I know you’re asked this every time something terrible happens in Yemen, but now that we have essentially complete chaos in Yemen, does the White House still believe that Yemen is the model for a counter-terrorism strategy?
JOSH EARNEST, WHITE HOUSE: Jon, the White House does continue to believe that a successful counter-terrorism strategy is one that will build up the capacity of the central government to have local fighters on the ground to take the fight to extremists in their own country…
KARL: That’s astounding. You’re saying that you still see Yemen as the model, that building up the central government which has now collapsed, a president who has apparently fled the country, Saudi troops have amassed on one boarder, the Iranians supporting the rebels. You consider this as a model for counter-terrorism?
EARNEST: Again, Jon, what the United States considers to be our strategy when confronting the effort to try to mitigate the threat that is posed by extremists is to prevent them from establishing a safe haven. And certainly in a chaotic, dangerous situation like in Yemen, what the United States will do and has done is work to try to support the central government, build up the capacity of local fighters, and use our own technological and military capabilities to apply pressure on the extremists there.
Look — I — there’s no doubt that we would like to see a functioning central government in Yemen — we don’t see that right now — and that is why we are supportive of the U.N.-led process to try to put an end to the violence and instability.
No doubt you would like to see a functioning government in your model country where your strategy was to build up the central government. Obama’s Arab Spring strategy made all of Yemen into a safe haven for terrorists. Now it’s still a model.
Or maybe that was the model all along.
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