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As Feared: Iran vs. Saudi Arabia

If you'll recall one of the big foreign policy nightmares circa 2005-2006 was the possibility that U.S. withdrawal from Iraq would lead to a destabilizing proxy war between Sunni-led Saudi Arabia and Shiite Iran. We stuck around and that didn't happen. But we may now be getting it anyway... in Yemen.