Guest Thinkers — December 21, 2010

The Yemeni Cabinet

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We are ignoring numerous things here this week – the goings on in Radfan, the escalation with the al-Huthis in the North, the strange news regarding Tariq al-Fadhli – but one thing I can’t ignore is this hilarious cartoon from the weekly Yemeni paper al-Dayar. It is so funny, in fact, that the paper has now been banned. The cartoon is the artist’s version of the Yemeni cabinet – I would say it is almost time for a new one.

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