"For most of the past decade, the “War on Terror” has been focused on eliminating Afghani strongholds of Muslim extremism. While these efforts are necessary, the Obama administration, until recently, has neglected other terrorist hideouts, such as those in West Africa, Maghreb and most notably Yemen. Yemen, outside of Afghanistan, has become one of the largest centers for Al Qaeda and other Muslim extremist groups. The United States has long neglected this area since the reunification of North and South Yemen, but it seems as if America’s past ambivalence about the region has come back to haunt it.
Much of this conflict stems from peripheral problems of the 20th century. In 1918, the British, already established in Egypt, longed for control of one of the greatest naturally occurring ports in the world, the Yemeni Port of Aden. It is important to note that this port is located on the shipping route from Europe to Asia, contains access to one of the largest known oil reserves in the world and is deep with minimal silt build up, which allows it to house the tankers that fuel the world."
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