Ansar Allah “ have demonstrated through their actions that the racist prejudices depicting them as ‘rag-tag, sandal-clad, backward mountain tribesmen’ completely misunderstand their capabilities and that their forces , as well as their organisational and mobilisation capacities, have been systematically underestimated.” Related Although I don’t agree with the use of some of the language such as ‘the international community’ by a supposedly a radical leftist magazine, it is a history and context, power struggle and geopolitics, internal dynamic and social forces that help us understand a movement and its actions . An interview with Yemen scholar Helen Lackner Yemen in Purgatory
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51