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" And now, it appears, Yemen is on the verge of blowing up. I said it yesterday, and I will say it again today: This is a very perilous time for the president&amp;#039;s re-election effort, and it would be even more perilous if he weren&amp;#039;t running against a man who would screw up a two-car funeral if you spotted him the hearse. Events, as someone once said, are in the saddle at this point. I am not sanguine that the United States can &amp;quot;bring to justice&amp;quot; the leaders of the mob that murdered Christopher Stevens in Libya. Not in under a decade, anyway. The president already has slid away from calling the new government in Egypt our ally. And Yemen is an entirely different cauldron. Yemen is poor. Yemen is unstable. There are more guns in Yemen than there are people. And, by any reasonable definition of the word, the United States has been making war in Yemen for quite some time now. The president&amp;#039;s policies are more directly involved in Yemen at the moment than they are in either Libya or Egypt. There&amp;#039;s a lot to be said about American wingnuts playing provocateurs in the most dangerous part of the world. There is even more to be said about the people who cheer them on. The basic inhumanity of treating volatile political situations like kids in a schoolyard ringing the two people who are fighting is something that should weigh heavily on whatever withered conscience these people have. And let us not even discuss the rising chorus of chickenhawks who have returned, zombie-like, from beyond the graves in which their credibility was thought to have been entombed in 2005. But Yemen is different. The people in Yemen don&amp;#039;t need some meathead with a Super 8 to make them angry with us. We&amp;#039;ve been making the rubble bounce there. It might leave Romney an opening to question the wisdom of the drone strikes themselves. Of course, he&amp;#039;s boxed himself in by his inept bellicosity on all things military, and by the fact that his foreign policy team consists mainly of a bunch of crazoid neo-cons dedicated to getting the band back together again, so he can&amp;#039;t make that argument without making himself look ignorant which, at this point, is a redundancy. ON THE CULTURE BLOG: Stephen Marche on Chris Stevens and the Killing of Ambassadors &amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;gt; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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