ideology. this is a fluid ideology. it was in afghanistan. it s now in yesmen. it can go to somalia. it s a reminder that we face an ongoing war on terrorism and politics. the attention may fade but terrorists doesn t. bret: you mention politics and there are four days away from the election and people will be saying is this the october surprise and will it affect mid-firm in any way, shape or form? it s unlikely to affect midterm. i think this is a real attack. the intelligence folks say this is a real attack, not dreamed up to effect an election. going to the yesmen point, it was interesting to see the president and john brennan praise the regime saying they were a courageous partner. i m worried that the administration not be snookered by an uneven parter in in the war on terror, many times looking the other way if not facilitated the work of al-qaeda and the affiliates in the area. so if the yemenis are being
the administration should be given credit when the system is working. bret: peter, yemen. umar farouk abdulmutallab, the christmas day bomber is from yesmen and the radical cleric, anwar al-awlaki, believed to be in yemen. a bad guy as well. this is a place that s been a focus for us. it has. where the uss cole was bombed is now the al-qaeda du jour where al-qaeda has networks going on. david petraeus earlier this year went to yemen to talk to the president there, to try to up the counter intelligence, counterinsurgency effort. counterterrorism effort there. it s a real problem, credit to the obama administration, they realized that there were strike against there, but a reminder yemen is a country right now, of a great source of problems. but we face a militant ideology. this is a fluid ideology. it was in afghanistan. it s now in yesmen. it can go to somalia.