“Ruling Yemen is hard. I always say it’s like dancing on the heads of snakes”

— Ali Abdullah Saleh

The Man Who Danced on the Heads of Snakes Dec 2017) https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/07/opinion/sunday/yemen-saleh-death-legacy.html

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