“Yemen has never been a perfect democracy or a island of stability,” Obama said in New Delhi, where he’s on a three-day state visit. He described the U.S. policy there”partnering and intelligence-sharing with that local government”as the best approach in a bad situation.
“The alternative would be for us to play whack-a-mole every time there is a terrorist actor inside of any given country,” Obama said.
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Obama was confident on Sunday that U.S. anti-terror efforts would continue in Yemen.
“What we have shown is that we can maintain the kind of pressure on these terrorist networks even in these kind of difficult environments,” he said.
