CSPAN Key Capitol Hill Hearings January 31, 2015
Outcome more amenable to their interests. And what we saw over the past year is the houthis first gaining control over an area. That got very little interest in the international media, the small militia. By the time they reached sanaa, they built things up from the grassroots. They were in a very strong bargaining position. The issue comes to the second point i made, which is people pulling back and working out a deal for themselves. When you reach the outskirts of sanaa the expectation was that the coalition of forces would bring themselves to the front and work out a deal. Instead, fighting...