{"id":483171,"date":"2022-01-25T00:10:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T00:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/?p=199274"},"modified":"2022-01-25T00:10:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T00:10:37","slug":"yemen-conflict-blowback-of-obamas-botched-syria-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/01\/25\/yemen-conflict-blowback-of-obamas-botched-syria-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Yemen Conflict: Blowback Of Obama\u2019s Botched Syria Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Arab Spring protests erupted in the Middle East in 2011, toppling longtime dictators of the Arab World, including Ben Ali in Tunisia and Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, Yemenis also gathered in the capital\u2019s squares demanding removal of Ali Abdullah Saleh.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of conceding to protesters\u2019 fervent demand of holding free and fair elections to ascertain democratic aspirations of demonstrators, however, the Obama administration adopted the convenient course of replacing Yemen\u2019s longtime autocrat with a Saudi stooge Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi.<\/p>\n<p>Having the reputation of a \u201cwily Arabian fox\u201d and being a Houthi himself, Ali Abdullah Saleh wasn\u2019t the one to sit idly by and retire from politics in ignominy.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/yemen-conflict-blowback-of-obamas-botched-syria-policy\/\">Yemen Conflict: Blowback Of Obama\u2019s Botched Syria Policy<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/yemen-conflict-blowback-of-obamas-botched-syria-policy\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Arab Spring protests erupted in the Middle East in 2011, toppling longtime dictators of the Arab World, including Ben Ali in Tunisia and Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, Yemenis also gathered in the capital\u2019s squares demanding removal of Ali Abdullah Sale&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5722,1058,196,5724,168],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483172,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483171\/revisions\/483172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}