of there. what is going on? this looks like a total, total disaster. everything we had there is gone. it s a total collapse of any kind of control in the country. it s devolving into a civil war. it s going to get worse. but for the united states interest we no longer have a capability to interface what was left of the yemeni army or the intelligent services. our capability to conduct strikes against aqap is severely degraded. hopefully we can replicate that in another country, djibouti saudi arabia somewhere like that. but this puts a blow in our efforts against aqap one of the more capable al qaeda elements. the bomb-maker is still on the run over there. very sophisticated capabilities and they have a track record of going after u.s. targets here in the united states as well. paul these shiite houthi rebels they re backed by iran now taken control of a major air base in yemen which was recently abandoned by the united states.