Behold, the Obama model of counter-terrorism success:
Yemen's Shiite rebels and their allies fought their way through the commercial center of Aden on Thursday and seized the presidential palace on a strategic hilltop in this southern coastal city, security officials said.
The capture was a major blow to the Saudi-led coalition, which has been carrying out airstrikes for a week now across Yemen, including in the capital, Sanaa, in a campaign meant to halt the advance of the Iran-backed rebels known as Houthis....
The capture of the palace came just hours after al-Qaida militants, who have profited from the turmoil and violence roiling Yemen to expand their foothold in this Arabian Peninsula nation, captured the coastal city of Mukalla, another key port, to the east of Aden.
In the raid, al-Qaida militants freed about three hundred inmates from a local prison in Mukalla, including scores of militants, according to the security officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to media.
Among those freed from the prison was senior al-Qaida operative Khaled Baterfi who had been in detention since 2011.
I wasn't kidding with that lede, BTW. White House spokesjerk Josh Earnest:
It's a lie, of course. Or, rather, a redefinition. Because, you see, Barack Obama defines "counterterrorism success" the same way we would if we removed the modifier "counter". It's a simple process, really: Withdraw support for Middle East allies, overthrow their governments and replace them with jihadist regimes, withdraw all U.S. military assets, withdraw all U.S. influence of any kind, allow jihadists to run wild, force any surviving former U.S.-allied governments (like the Saudis) to take military action against the enemy attacks that we are no longer deterring but facilitating, and sit back with a frosty adult beverage and watch the carnage.
Yemen is the Obama Doctrine in microcosm. And the macrocosm....?
....The Iranians will take care of that. The One will see to it.
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