American Enterprise Institute
Frederick W. Kagan
Frederick W. Kagan is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. The following is excerpted from his statement during a January 20, 2010, Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Yemen. President Barack Obama has made it clear that he does not intend to send American ground forces into Yemen, and rightly so. But American policy toward Yemen, even after the Christmas terrorist attempt, remains focused on limited counterterrorist approaches that failed in Afghanistan in the 1990s and have created tension in Pakistan since 2001. Yemen faces enormous challenges. Its 24 million people are divided into three antagonistic groups: a…
