bobad: yikes
iains: I did not know that (obviously). According to Wikipedia Yemen is not in OPEC nor is their oil anticipated to last them long. I don't know anything else about them. They seem to have been poor and downtrodden a long long time, and abused by their more powerful neighbors. Quite recently the interesting author Dave Eggers' latest book: "The Monk of Mokha" came out about "the exhilarating true story of a young Yemeni American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana’a by civil war."

This is an example of my ignorance about modern Yemen. That's all I got. Coffee, oil, and starvation. You'd think someone could put them together and create an economy that would feed people, wouldn't you?

Yet they are in real danger of mass starvation. I believe that, too.