Quote:
|
Yemen does have one advantage, though, which is that no one really cares about Yemen.
|
compared with, say, Kyrgyzstan?
Quote:
|
After the Zaydi monarchy was overthrown, the Egyptians tried to use North Yemen as a weapon against Saudi Arabia. Their role in the civil war there was particularly brutal, involving the use of chemical weapons against royalist forces.
|
Why would a bunch of Zaydi Nationalists from the north ally themselves with Egyptians who have chemical weapons up their bisht?
Quote:
|
Apparently their ostensible ideological differences amounted to nothing.
|
I must defer to your knowledge on that subject