one thing that should be clear is that when you double military aid to yemen etc. you don't have a clear idea of whom you're attacking or why.

"If we don't act presumptively," warned U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman on Fox News, "Yemen will be tomorrow's war."

The U.S. has already been conducting covert strikes on Al Qaeda targets in Yemen and has pledged to double military assistance to the embattled government.

one thing our person in yemen is pointing out is that we're liable to be funding a general repression and the personal fortunes of the leadership: that we're liable to be very on the wrong side, and actually to occasion a full-on civil war that we will not clearly understand.