How does one get “stranded” in Yemen? I am assuming that any American there is there of his own free will. It is not the government’s business to bail out citizens when the results of their choices go wrong.
The exception would be a sudden catastrophic change that could not be foreseen; that is not the case with Yemen.
From Bloombergview:
...Desperate Yemeni-Americans are taking any offer they can get to leave.
The number of Americans still in Yemen is unclear. A 2010 embassy inspection report placed the number of American citizens in the country at 55,000, but Ayoub said the State Department now believes there are between 4,000 and 5,000 remaining. It would not be new ground for the department, which led an evacuation of 15,000 U.S. citizens from Lebanon in the summer of 2006, with Pentagon assistance.
But the State Department won’t engage Arab-American leaders on the issue, and groups including the ADC, the Council on American Islamic Relations and Asian Americans Advancing Justice have taken matters into their own hands. They filed two lawsuits against the State and Defense Departments to compel them to get Americans out of Yemen...