White House: 'Job Is Not Done' in Yemen

[mystery-ak]

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White House: 'Job Is Not Done' in Yemen
Wednesday, April 22, 2015 09:17 AM

By: REUTERS



Yemen remains unstable and much more work needs to be done in the region, despite a declared halt to the Saudi-led bombing campaign in the country, the White House said on Wednesday.

"Obviously, the job is not done," Jen Psaki, White House communications director, said on CNN.

Tuesday's announcement by Saudi Arabia that it would end its campaign of air strikes against the Iranian-allied Houthis drew positive responses from the White House and Tehran, as well as fresh calls for peace talks and for humanitarian aid.

Saudi Arabia said its month-old campaign against the Houthis, who had seized large areas in Yemen, had met its goals but rival forces fought on in Yemen on Wednesday.

Psaki acknowledged problems remain in the country.

"There is remaining instability in the region, in Yemen," she said. "There's a lot of work that needs to be done and we're going to be doubling down and continuing to work on that with our partners around the world."

Saudi Arabia's leading role against the Houthis has turned Yemen into the latest theater of a regional proxy conflict between the Gulf's leading Sunni Muslim and Shi'ite Muslim powers - a struggle also playing out in Syria, Lebanon and Iraq.

Psaki said all parties in Yemen need to come together to reach a diplomatic solution.

"There no other solution that's going to work," she told CNN. "This is not a war that can be fought on the battlefield."

[EC]

Um - don't they get briefed before they go on the news talk shows?

The bombing campaign restarted this morning. No reason given.

[alicewonders]

Um - don't they get briefed before they go on the news talk shows?

The bombing campaign restarted this morning. No reason given.

Apparently they don't get briefed - they hear about it on the news like all of us do.

[musiclady]

Apparently they don't get briefed - they hear about it on the news like all of us do.

This administration has 'dumb' as a requirement to be its spokesperson.  That's why they select Valley Girls to represent them.

They're so dimwitted that they most likely wouldn't understand a briefing if they went to one.

[andy58-in-nh]

This administration has 'dumb' as a requirement to be its spokesperson.  That's why they select Valley Girls to represent them.

They're so dimwitted that they most likely wouldn't understand a briefing if they went to one.

You're not kidding. Consider the depth of drivel involved here:
 
"There is remaining instability in the region, in Yemen," she said. (No shit. Really? What was your first clue, Jen?)
 
"There's a lot of work that needs to be done (what sort of "work", I wonder might cause crazy Islamic radicals to suddenly stop wanting to kill their neighbors?) and we're going to be doubling down (because "doubling down" is what all good Obamites do, or know how to do) and continuing to work on that with our partners around the world. (Which partners? Iran? Turkey? Russia? At least the Saudis tried to do something about it - by bombing the rebels.)"

Psaki said all parties in Yemen need to come together to reach a diplomatic solution.
"There no other solution that's going to work," she told CNN. "This is not a war that can be fought on the battlefield."
 
(As opposed to... all the other places where wars are fought, genius? Really: WTF?).
 

[musiclady]

You're not kidding. Consider the depth of drivel involved here:
 
"There is remaining instability in the region, in Yemen," she said. (No shit. Really? What was your first clue, Jen?)
 
"There's a lot of work that needs to be done (what sort of "work", I wonder might cause crazy Islamic radicals to suddenly stop wanting to kill their neighbors?) and we're going to be doubling down (because "doubling down" is what all good Obamites do, or know how to do) and continuing to work on that with our partners around the world. (Which partners? Iran? Turkey? Russia? At least the Saudis tried to do something about it - by bombing the rebels.)"

Psaki said all parties in Yemen need to come together to reach a diplomatic solution.
"There no other solution that's going to work," she told CNN. "This is not a war that can be fought on the battlefield."
 
(As opposed to... all the other places where wars are fought, genius? Really: WTF?).

I know, I know!!

Someone suggested that Jen sounds like she's a participant in a HS mock United Nations assembly.

Only I participated in one nearly 50 years ago, and not a single kid in my class was as idiotic as she is.  (I represented Sweden, so I didn't have a whole lot to say.  ^-^)

I swear, she might as well have actually said we just need to hold hands in a big circle and sing Kumbaya together.

Did you ever think that ANY administration would be so downright stupid in their foreign policy?

Every day is a bad episode of the Twilight Zone....   

[mystery-ak]