Why is Washington obsessed with Yemen?
Why is Washington obsessed with Yemen? Michael Kruger © Provided by Washington Examiner Yemen has been at the top of Washington’s foreign policy agenda over the last month. Most Americans find this surprising. Our trade with Yemen is minimal, there isn’t a large Yemeni American community, and few of us have Yemen on the top of our vacation list. Yet, while Yemen is far from the hearts and minds of most Americans, the reverse is not true. And we need to try to understand why. Yemen is larger than California and has roughly the same population as Texas: almost 30 million p...