host: we have our caller speaking with christopher boucek.aller: good morning, i am not involved in any endowment, but if there was not one drop of oil in the mid east, and if the united states did not arm and aid israel in their war, we probably would not have suffered 9/11. we are becoming too big of an empire in my estimation. you go back in history, and the roman empire got so big and couldn't finance it and they failed. i think we poke our nose in every place we can. host: role and action of the u.s., what is your take? guest: i think the united states has a huge role in all of this. and unfortunately american foreign policy feeds into a lot of regions. that's discussed by a lot of people. regardless of what is going on, and we see that yemen is a country in crisis. and while it's not a failed state, it can fall apart quickly. and because there are enduring american security and foreign policy at stake, the international community needs to be active in trying to offset these things because we know what is going down the road. host: our g

host: the numbers are on the bottom of the screen, we are talking to christopher boucek about yemen andhat is being done. how does yemen get on with its neighbors now? guest: yemen has well-developed relations with the gulf countries. with the relationship with saudia arabia is one that is recently become more difficult because of the security situation in yemen. i think that the saudi's look at what is going in yemen and see this as a source of the problems in their country. there are a number of event that is took place in yemen that had a negative effect on saudia arabia with suicide attempts and there was an attack to the security chief. and the war in the north between the government and shiite rebels and has been going on for years and now the saudis are reactant. host: bring this to the u.s., what has the yemen government been doing with the u.s. to fight that activity? guest: the last couple of weeks we have seen a number of strikes against the targets. and this the yemen government and american government cooperating. and this is important for the targeting and surveillance. wh

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