yemen to try and suppress any potential terrorist attack in that country or anywhere across the region. however, that and the statement that came out from the yemeni government that they had foiled this plot in the southern part of the country on oil installations and perhaps an attempt by al qaeda to take over the city, both of those seem somewhat disconnected from the alert the united states issued following that communication intercept. there s no evidence to suggest that plot foiled by the government was directly related to the attack the united states was anticipating happening following their intelligence stream as we heard earlier. it does not seem to be connected. however, we know the counterterrorism strikes as a result of the drone operations certainly inconsistent with u.s. policy in yemen and elsewhere. and as i mentioned, you re live for us in cairo. ayman, what is the latest on the developments there as we re hearing yet again that the military may move in on morsi supp
pursued a less aggressive policy and mid-level and high-level terrorists are being extinguished overseas by the counterterrorism strikes. if you didn t have those strikes, you would have a whole class of quote-unquote enemy combatants or enemies to the american state that would have to see military tribunals or civilian trials, opening up a host of questions about what to do with them. there are a wide range of tools to deal with the challenge. what s important is number one, effectiveness and number two, a sense of the external costs of what you re doing, to make sure that as donald rumsfeld said in a 2003 memo that in trying to deal with extremists, you re not creating more. and so not only should congress be focused on the legality of what we re doing, but at some point we should have a debate about the strategic impact of what we re doing. for example, in pakistan, 74% of pakistanis believe that the united states is the enemy. and drones are a major element of that.