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Drone policy in Yemen unsustainable: experts
WASHINGTON: Top foreign policy experts have warned U.S. President Barack Obama that his Yemen policy, steeled by lethal drone strikes on terror suspects, is not sustainable and could harm long-term U.S. security.
In a letter fanning debate on U.S. policy toward a hot front in the campaign against Al-Qaeda, the experts said Wednesday that Yemenis perceived America as almost purely concerned with ruthless anti-terrorism operations.
The Obama administration pushed back strongly, highlighting a recently announced new $52 million aid increase to tackle Yemen’s humanitarian crisis and insisted the U.S. approach toward the country was “balanced.”
“We believe the current U.S. strategy jeopardizes our long-term national security goals,” said the letter, signed by 27 bipartisan experts under the auspices of the Atlantic Council and the Project on Middle East Democracy.
In a letter fanning debate on U.S. policy toward a hot front in the campaign against Al-Qaeda, the experts said Wednesday that Yemenis perceived America as almost purely concerned with ruthless anti-terrorism operations.
The Obama administration pushed back strongly, highlighting a recently announced new $52 million aid increase to tackle Yemen’s humanitarian crisis and insisted the U.S. approach toward the country was “balanced.”
“We believe the current U.S. strategy jeopardizes our long-term national security goals,” said the letter, signed by 27 bipartisan experts under the auspices of the Atlantic Council and the Project on Middle East Democracy.
Read more: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2012/Jun-29/178662-drone-policy-in-yemen-unsustainable-experts.ashx