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by Richard Miniter • May 11, 2018
at 10:30 pm
- Our allies are finally
becoming force multipliers -- joining with America to use its
talent and technology finally to defeat the jihadist threat. We
should assist and encourage the UAE and Saudi Arabia, not
abandon them.
The Sheikh
Zayed Mosque in Abu Dhabi. Iran offered "support to al-Qaeda in
exchange for targeting the Gulf," according to CIA documents
captured last year from Osama bin Laden's compound.
More than 7,000 miles from Washington and far from
America's headlines, a war in Yemen is rewriting America's strategy
against Iran and terrorism.
The three-sided civil war pits two radical Islamist
forces -- Al-Qaeda's largest surviving army and Iran's biggest proxy
force -- against each other and six of America's Arab allies. U.S.
Special forces carry out covert raids and CIA drones rain down
missiles on terror leaders.
The outcome of the Yemen war matters: U.S. forces are
fighting there and a new strategy against terrorism is now being
tested in the Middle East's poorest nation.
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