Wednesday, 31 July 2013

Why Drones Work

Why Drones Work: The Obama administration relies on drones for one simple reason: they work. Drone strikes have devastated al Qaeda at little financial cost, at no risk to U.S. forces, and with fewer civilian casualties than many alternative methods would have caused.

How Yemen Chewed Itself Dry

A Yemeni man chews qat in the main qat market in Sana'a May 9, 2007.
How Yemen Chewed Itself Dry: In a little over a decade, Sana’a, Yemen, might become the world’s first capital to run out of water, turning its millions of citizens into water refugees. A major cause: the cultivation of qat, a mild narcotic plant that takes unusually large amounts of water to farm and to which much of Yemen's population is addicted.