Saturday, January 2, 2010
Terrorism as a business model to spur foreign investment - does Yemen secretly encourage its native and adopted terrorists in order to attract financial assistance from the West? A desperate country without the means to placate a depressed people - running out of oil and water, population increasing far too quickly when measured against its vast needs and wants, unemployment at 30, 40%, an al Queda sanctuary feeding off Wahhabist inclinations and an endemic dislike if not hatred of America, makes it a very nice nexus and refuge for terrorists - are Yemeni officials milking this for cash? Of course a dangerous game to play as they battle an 'al Queda of Saudi Arabia' uprising and civil war - still, given their seeming lack of realistic options, dangerous relative to what?
