Yemen, Another Looming Project

Tom Friedman writes in the NYT about Yemen:

It’s not a secret how to fix this country, argued Mohammed al-Asaadi, a media consultant who sat in with us: “We need a revolution against the status quo. We need to build capacity, institutionalize the rule of law and build a culture of ownership and responsibility.” Added Murad Hashim, the Al Jazeera bureau chief here: “We need more education, but we have not used our educated people.” Indeed, Yemen has the resources to save itself, but they need to be mobilized by better governance. Without that, the trend lines will eventually overwhelm everything and the Qaeda virus, still controllable, will spread.

Doesn't sound so easy to me. Sounds like they need an American invasion to solve their problems, right?  Oh Thomas, ever the hawkish neo-liberal.