There are at least five factions within Yemen fighting for control: Houthis, AQAP, former president's rebels, current president's army, Southerners, Northerners, and the Populist movement.
With so many fragmented groups, how can any group take and hold ground? When alliances can be set at noon and the next lunch time they are sniping each other? One side attacks and there is vengeance the next day.
After supporting the ex president, the US cannot take a leadership role given the factions united to attack and remove the Yemeni president. That and drone strikes antagonized AQAP areas.
The US has swung to isolationist in the schizophrenic empire spectrum for Arabia.
So what is the most practical action to take? For the US, stay on the sidelines and let them devour each other is my prediction.
One cannot peace keep until they are exhausted. Groups that are not exhausted will continue until they are eradicated, or victorious.
The Houthis claim that it is the US and the Israel's policy to destroy Islam. The irony is they are perpetuating the US policy on their own....
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