The US and 20 other nations will attend a brief conference on Yemen Wednesday in London, a conference hastily organized after last month’s failed lap bomber attack in Detroit was tied to the nation.
The State Department Officials are expected to produce solutions to all of these problems, somehow, in a conference that is scheduled to last no more than two hours. It is expected this will mostly involve the nations in attendance pledging economic aid to the government of President Saleh.
Mostly the delegates attending the conference are in town anyhow for the major Afghan conference beginning the following day, and the Yemen conference is seen as little more than an afterthought, giving lip service to the next battleground in a seemingly endless war on terror before focusing on the disastrous current battleground.
The coming comference on Yemen will only add more salt to the existing wound of the Yemeni people.The regime’s ineffeciency in addressing Yemeni problems on all levels have produced amonster like society, where most retarded powers reign over all walks of life.Bribes and coersion are the common daily denomination of the Yemeni life. The central issue concerning the regime is how to survive no matter what the cost may be. Of course there are speculations as to how the Yemeni people will benefit from this confeence;certainly not by removing this corrupted regime, but at least injecting some sense into Saleh’s head to realize the abyss he is heading to should he maintain the same irresponsible course.Political parties under Al-Moushtarak have tried endlessly to negitiate a sensible way out of this snow balling problem but to no avail.Saleh’s main obsesion is to install his son in his place as a monarch of Yemen. Should this happen however, Yemen will witness a series of deramatic events that will split the country into many mini waring states.The salient factor around which London Conference should concentrate is reiging over Saleh’s over confedence that he can keep on ruling endlessly and reaching a middle of the road solution with the opposition as a way to normalizing Yemen.
May your wish become reality. My fear, though, is that the "international community" always seeks to satisfy its own interests, and all that the current president will do is find the way to please them, so his rule gets preserved. Internationalization makes every problem become thousands times worse, and the life of people becomes even more of a living hell.
Yemen would be much better off with any kind of solution that keeps the foreign predatory interests — both commercial and military — out. If that means splitting up the country, so be it. A presidency that cannot fullfill its main mission in a decentralized society — being a good faith negotiator and harmonizer of interests — is not worh having. Trying to rule like a medieval European baron, over traditionally decentralized society, is a losing proposition.
The underware bomber had an "electrifiying impact" on all those companies that cannot wait for more funding for foreign adventures. Imagine, new war, all new set up — all the money that will come from the broke taxpayer — that makes them positively giddy!!!