U.S. President Barack Obama said he has...
He also said America so far had no plans of invading Somalia either, although the two countries practice an alarmingly soft approach to al-Qaeda, and Yemen is growing into a problem in the global fight against terrorism.
Admittedly, instead of "military injections of democracy," the United States will increase allocations for the anti-terrorist support of Yemen"s government (to $130 million a year) and will also provide other kinds of support such as training local police. This approach is certainly better than bombs and the resulting devastating consequences for the entire Horn of Africa region.
The most ardent Republicans have been urging Obama to do something about Yemen since the failed bomb attack on a U.S. airliner headed from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian student who brought the bomb on board, was allegedly acting on Al-Qaeda"s orders and had been trained in Yemen.