Biden’s Yemen conundrum
Nine months into the Biden administration and its Yemen peace initiative, the momentum toward peace seems to have stalled.
Nabeel A. Khoury is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East. A retired foreign service officer, he most recently served as director of the Near East South Asia office of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research.
Nine months into the Biden administration and its Yemen peace initiative, the momentum toward peace seems to have stalled.
The U.S., guilty by association in the launch of the war in 2015, has failed to fully engage its diplomacy in the service of peace, continuing instead to fuel the fighting with huge arms sales.