Garland Summarizes It Well...

 ... Garland summarized situation with Yemen extremely well. 

He is spot on with description of narcissism in D.C. a desire to look "strong". Now, recall this I wrote 7 years ago:

As strange as it may sound, it was the continental warfare of WWII that the United States did not experience on its own soil, and the lack of experiencing any invasion by a peer foreign power, that failed to provide it with the historic glue, which was responsible to a large degree for the formation of modern nations. This may have played in favor of America’s post-WWII greatness, but it also bore the seeds of the American myth’s destruction with it. Those seeds, overlooked by a non-inquisitive American political and intellectual class in the 20th and 21st centuries, were pivotal in reinforcing stereotypes and clichés which, otherwise, they would have rejected as not having a solid grounding in real life. 

You cannot explain this to an average American politician or top brass--they have no idea what it means to fight for your land. So, US is doing what it does best--bomb countries without air-defense and air forces. Well, what can I say--we'll have to wait and see where this whole thing goes toward.