WASHINGTON POST: Saudi Arabia pressed its bombardment of neighboring Yemen on Friday, striking near the presidential compound in the rebel-controlled capital at dawn as well as at military installations, residents reported.
Egyptian warships were also steaming toward the Yemeni coast as part of an Arab-led offensive against Shiite rebels seeking to take over Yemen in what has become a showdown between the major powers in the Middle East.
Yemeni Foreign Minister Riad Yassin, speaking in Egypt, told the British Broadcasting Corporation that the airstrikes, an action the country was “forced to request because of what is happening on the ground,” should end as soon as possible… (more)
EDITOR: “Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition. And we will all go home.” From a popular First World War song, but an apt description of President Obama’s foreign policy. No more “Ugly Americans” boots on the ground and planes in the air but rather intervention by well meaning Mid-East neighbors.
