WikiLeaks documents trickling out regarding Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh reveal a US policy which is achieving little to none of its stated results, but also a stubborn determination to continue that policy more or less unchanged moving forward.
In meetings But once the aid is delivered, the US finds a totally different Saleh, determined to divert all that aid away from the AQAP infested south and against the Houthi rebels in the nation’s far north. When pressed on the issue Saleh invents allegations of an Iranian role in the secessionist movement.
Normally claims of an Iranian proxy war are the sort of thing the US would eat up, but the outlandish claims of captured Iranian troops are so absurd, and so without any shred of evidence, that the cables marvel at the nerve it takes for Saleh to make the allegations.
Yet despite his overwhelming unreliability, the US diplomats don’t seem to even consider not backing Saleh going forward, and it does seem that if nothing else he can be counted on to lie on behalf of the US and shrug off civilian deaths as no big deal.
In the meantime however Saleh seems determined to use the threat of AQAP to extort massive amounts of aid from the US, and to do little to nothing about AQAP. Incredibly enough, the US seems to have figured this out some time ago, and just doesn’t seem to care.
I wonder how many 'Salehs' are on the U.S. payroll. Perhaps hundreds of thousands. The U.S. reckons if you can't bomb it out of existence, then bribe it to do what you want.
I hope Julian gets hold of a list of these people so the world can see just how corrupt the U.S. really is, just how down and dirty it gets, who it is in bed with and who is screwing who.
The funny thing is, the U.S. wants to run the whole world. But it is corrupt itself therefore it is exposed to corruption. Who can it trust when it is corrupting everyone in sight?
Just a thought!
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Good post as usual!
This is all laid out in a recent book by Isa Blumi, Chaos in Yemen: Societal Collapse and the New Authoritarianism (Routledge 2010); it is a much deeper domestic conflict with Saudi finger-prints all over it…one that got out of hand with significant implications for the larger region…and most interpretations continue to ignore the oil and natural gas that both flows out of Yemen and along its coastal waters.