"Nikos Retsos, retired professor"....It is easy to see why your retired.

The U.S. will have a very serious problem dealing with Yemen. Firstly, all Arabs are hostile toward the U.S. because of its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; its unconditional support of Israel; its branding of Hamas and most Palestinians as terrorists; its support of anti-popular Arab regimes that are allies of the U.S.; its warmongering an subversive activities against Iran, and the U.S. propensity to kill any Moslem who either doesn't like America, or support anti-American insurgents.

Secondly, because of the high hostility against the U.S. in the Arab and the Muslim world, the U.S. doesn't trust Arab leaders - except those despotic Arab regimes that depend on the U.S. for their survival. And here is where the clash of interests between the U.S. and countries like Yemen occurs.
The U.S. would like to go into Yemen with Special Forces, Predator drones, and offshore ships with cruise missiles, and kill every suspect or so-called Al Qaeda associates. And if, say, 500 innocent civilians bystanders die, that's fine. The U.S. can just call these innocent civilians Al Qaeda associates, or terrorists - as it did on September 5, 2009 when it killed 142 civilians in Kunduz, Afghanistan, and called them "Taliban insurgents" - even after the U.N. had confirmed that they were civilians! And that has been the standard U.S. policy in both Iraq and Afghanistan - after the U.S. replaced the terms "collateral damage" it used for dead civilians, with the term "insurgents" in Iraq, and "Taliban" in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

And that is where the problem lies in Yemen. The Yemeni government doesn't want the U.S. to come in
and flatten whole neighborhoods and kill hundreds civilians by bombing a building where 2-5 known terrorists have gathered, and the U.S. doesn't trust the Yemenis to do all the killing the U.S. ask them to do because there will be on open rebellion against the government - in addition to rebel tribes in the North, and secessionist guerrillas in the South. Yemen is a country where the picture of Saddam Hussein still hangs proudly in many stores in its bazaars.

The U.S. president Baraq Obama has been railroaded by the Republicans into expanding Bush's wars to
prove the he is not a dove toward terrorism. And after 8 years of Bush's failures, a quagmire in Afghanistan, and a U.S. forced civil war in Pakistan, he might have his own blunter in Yemen because he is tormented by a phobia of the Republican campaign to portray him as incompetent on national security. Nikos Retsos, retired professor