I want to ask my fellow viners to answer a very simple question: “How would YOUR life change if tomorrow morning there was no Yemen?” To clarify – I am not advocating nuking them (I will do so at the end of the post). I am not advocating invading them and overthrowing their government, and installing a democracy there. I think we were stupid in trying to do it in the first two cases.
All I am asking of you is to let me know how will your daily routine change if by through the will of allah God or Gandalf made Yemen no more tomorrow morning? Like there is no Hobitton on this planet Earth, there would be no Yemen in the Middle East?
I am not asking about the humanity of such proposal, I am not asking to judge me, or to implement it. All I am asking my fellow viners is to honestly answer not to me, but to themselves – what will change in their daily lives if tomorrow there was no Yemen?
As of late I have been asking this question of myself – and had to say: Nothing. I have been asking this of my friends and co-workers and almost all of them said the same thing: Nothing. There are somewhere between 168 and 196 independent recognized countries in the world, with 192 of them being the UN members. There is also a number of geo-political entities that are recognized by no one, and yet exists and act as countries of their own. Being honest with yourself – please tell me would you honestly miss a country you never heard of, because you just heard of it?
What makes Yemen so special? The fact that they send us gifts? The fact that they breed terrorism? Why do we need it in a first place, and if we don’t – why is it still there? If nobody’s life has changed with no Yemen, than why there is a Yemen? What’s in it for me?



