Obama's MDG speech will test Yemen policy

President Obama, speaking at the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Summit, said helping impoverished nations is essential for national security. Obama emphasized that "progress in even the poorest countries can advance the prosperity and security of people far beyond their borders....When millions of fathers cannot provide for their families, it feeds the despair that can fuel instability and violent extremism."

His words will be thoroughly tested in Yemen, where hunger and poverty afflict millions of people. At the very moment of Obama's speech, thousands of Yemenis have just been displaced by their government's offensive against Al Qaeda. In Northern Yemen, another 300,000 Yemenis have been displaced for months because of a conflict between the government and rebels. These are hundreds of thousands of people, many already impoverished, who have to start over.

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