An article at TimesOnline discusses the situation in Yemen.

It looks like the government there is exactly the kind of government that we should avoid like the plague.

Perhaps we ought to pursue an approach of trying to support the rebels to lure them away from al-Qaeda.  Trying to fight al-Qaeda via the Yemeni government sounds like a losing proposition to me.

At least we could have our rebels fighting the al-Qaeda rebels and completely bypass the central government.

Why should we spend money trying to train government forces that do not want to be trained when we can work with rebels who seem to be more than adequately trained already?