“Critical Reasoning”: Yemen and the War on Terror
This paper will provide a brief description of Yemen, the global importance Yemen has in the War on Terror, and how the War on Terror affects the interests of the United States (U.S.) and the world. I will also discuss how the U.S. provides support to Yemen, what support is provided to other countries in the area by the U.S., and how the War on Terror is fought in Yemen by the U.S. and other countries in the world.
First, I will provide a brief background on the country of Yemen. According to The World Factbook (2014), Yemen is a country in the Middle East situated between Saudi Arabia and Oman on the Arabian Peninsula. It is also bordered by three bodies of water; the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden, and the Red Sea. Yemen’s capital city is Sanaa, situated on the western side of the country, with a population of 2.2 million (2009) which is about the size of Houston, Texas. Yemen’s climate varies from hot and humid along the west coast, temperate in the western mountains which are affected by seasonal monsoons, and extraordinarily hot, dry, and harsh desert in the east which consists of 95% of Yemen’s land mass. Yemen’s natural resources include petroleum, fish, rock salt, and marble. Yemen is a predominantly Arab country with Arabic as its official language. Muslim is the official religion with an estimated 65% Sunni and 35% Shia Muslim population. Yemen is a republic with an elected president of seven years. The president appoints the vice president and prime minister for the length of the president’s term. Yemen’s revenue mostly comes from its declining oil resources which has forced an economic reform program initiated in 2006 that is designed to bolster non-oil sectors of the ec...
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Such efforts to mask the involvement of Americans in Saudi Arabia are doomed to eventual failure because of the unique nature of the Saudi territory, comprising some of the most symbolically important desert in world...
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Relations between the United States and Saudi Arabia are complicated to say the least. Saudi Arabia is a major exporter of oil and in order to “protect a stable and cheap supply of oil” coming to the U.S. and our allies, military bases have been set up. Although the U.S. is there to aid Saudi Arabia, “the presence of bases fosters opposition to the regime they are there to protect”—classic catch-22 (Okruhlik).
When I first arrived Yemen I noticed many different things. One of the huge things I experienced and seen was the different lifestyle. First, people over there work so hard to feed their kids and makes sure that they are living healthy and strong.
Yemen Conflict and the Role of the IGOs and the NGOs in the Yemen Conflict
...on, the decay of the Country’s political infrastructure, and the growing support of terrorist organizations in the region, are all systematic results of the effects of poverty. In conclusion Yemen must combat its health problem with both preemptive and reactive measures. Yemen must find common ground amongst its various political factions and unify politically to develop a truly governing nation. Yemen must also irradiate all terrorist factions in the region in order to prevent future recruitment into terrorist organizations. These measures are necessary to ensure that the effects of poverty on the people of Yemen are mitigated and minimal. This can only be achieved through the continuation of outside financial, medical, and political assistance from its neighboring countries in the region as well as the support of counter-terrorist organizations worldwide.
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Firstly, Yemen’s history is very rich. From around 750 B.C., this country has been at war. They have fought almost every country several times in this time. They were at war with Africa, Britain, and Egypt. They calmed down around 1945, where they joined the United Nations. They quickly left and are no longer in the UN. They are now part of the United Arab Nations. This country’s leadership changed with every war, but mostly was a king the entire time. Although this country started as a Christian country, it is a Muslim Arabic nation presently.
Yemen, officially known now as “The Republic of Yemen,” is an Arab country located in the Middle East, taking up the southwestern to southern part of the Arabian Peninsula. It borders the Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden, and the red sea, as well as located south of Saudi Arabia and west of Oman. Yemen is the second largest country in the Arabian Peninsula, with a population of nearly 20 million people, and an annual population growth rate of around 3 percent. In 1918, northern Yemen became independent of the Ottoman Empire. Their climate is mostly des...
Although one must understand that people will grieve like any other human when their loved ones have reached demise, especially if wrongfully or even earlier done. The author, Jeremy Scahill, examines with a logically statement, “People who are aggrieved by attacks on their homes that forced them to go out and fight,” since the militants operating in Yemen are receiving such responses of hostility through families, thus there needs to be a reevaluation on the aerial aircraft. Above all, people from Yemen are being pushed into unimaginable thought processes as an effect as there are results concluding, “Support for Al-Qaeda in Yemen is indigenously spreading and merging with the mounting rage of powerful tribes at the United States counterterrorism policy.” (Source K). Besides, none of these families are claiming this lifestyle with open hands, but core members of the terrorist group are growing because the United States is growing with power as the Amnesty International claims, “Drone strikes can be classified as war crimes or illegal extrajudicial executions.” (Source K). When statistics represent these masses converting, whereas declared, “Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula core members grew from three hundred in 2009 when these strikes began once again to seven hundred people in 2012.” (Source K). This is around
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