To: Pining_4_TX
Yemen is becoming an albatross for the Saudis. Gamal Abdel Nasser and Egypt found this out the hard way in the 1960s. Egypt had over 70,000 soldiers deployed in Yemen and stuck in a stalemate from 1962-1967.
They missed those soldiers (and the 26,000 casualties from 1962-67) badly during the 1967 Six Day War.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Yemen_Civil_War
5 posted on
11/02/2018 10:33:44 AM PDT by
drop 50 and fire for effect
("Work relentlessly, accomplish much, remain in the background, and be more than you seem.")
To: drop 50 and fire for effect
Thanks for the link. That is such a tangled mess over there.
8 posted on
11/02/2018 3:27:57 PM PDT by
Pining_4_TX
(..Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you.. Joshua 1:9)
To: drop 50 and fire for effect
Good historical background.
11 posted on
11/14/2018 11:29:25 PM PST by
BlackVeil
('The past is never dead. It's not even past.' William Faulkner)
To: drop 50 and fire for effect
Here's an interesting article on the North Yemen War.
The Proxy of my Proxy
A Yemeni saying that is apropos anywhere and anytime in the Middle East:
“You can’t buy us; you can only rent us for a while”
12 posted on
11/14/2018 11:54:36 PM PST by
antidisestablishment
( Xenophobia is the only sane response to multiculturalismÂ’s irrational cultural exuberance)
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