Should the UN and the AL treat Yemen like libya?

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Yemeni police open fire on protesters, kill 31

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni doctors say at least 31 people have been killed by security forces who opened fire on an anti-government demonstration in the Yemeni capital and that dozens have been wounded.

The death toll is among the highest in the month of violence that has shaken Yemen with protesters demanding President Ali Abdullah Saleh step down. Government forces and pro-government thugs have used live fire in an increasingly deadly crackdown.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2011-03-18-yemen-protests_N.htm
 
Of course. See, there is actually a nation-sized cookie cutter for every single conflict and foreign policy situation that exists. Grenada, Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, the Falklands, North Korea, Libya - these are all identical situations, that demand identical responses...
 
Onceler said:
Of course. See, there is actually a nation-sized cookie cutter for every single conflict and foreign policy situation that exists. Grenada, Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, the Falklands, North Korea, Libya - these are all identical situations, that demand identical responses...
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I remind you of the Winston Churchill quote. "You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing—after they have tried everything else."
 
Yemen has always been a hotbed of radicalism. The southeast tip of the Peninsula (present-day Yemen and Oman) was the birthplace of the Kharajite movement in the 630s.
 
We can't do a damn thing in Yemen even if they gas or torture the demonstrators. We can't afford to piss off the House of Saud.
 
Yurt said:
so the UN and AL are powerless :(
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The House of Saud must stay in power to keep the oil flowing no matter what the populations of their smaller fiefdoms want or need. The Egyptian revolution will not happen on the Arabian peninsula.
 
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