And while everyone is watching Japan...

[Winehole23]

We could have interceded with the army behind the scenes to work out a compromise if we had chosen that course of action.

We might have given them our blessing. No telling though.

http://bna.bh/portal/en/news/449900

[CosmicCowboy]

Yemen is shooting their protesters in the head with snipers. Oh yeah. They are our friends too. Guess it's OK. No No Fly Zones there.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/wo...n.html?_r=1&hp

[Winehole23]

Yemen is complex. Not sure they're our friend in any straight up sense. Maybe the Iraq invasion put the fear of God in em. That Al Qaeda was a Sunni movement in a country that is divided along sectarian lines was just more expedience, IMO. Saleh's pretty tight with Ahmadinejah, too.

[CosmicCowboy]

Looks like Yemen is going down. The generals are defecting to the rebels.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110321/D9M3J3U80.html