("Shibam-Yemen-Walk in Magic Light". Photo by Lucie Debelkova / Flickr-www.luciedebelkova.com.). Since 2004, north of Yemen has been the stage of clashes between followers of 'Imam al-Houthi and the army: in response to threats made by a group linked to al Qaeda, in recent weeks the situation became increasingly dangerous, so that France became the fourth country, this morning, to close its embassy. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, in an interview with the BBC, said today the reasons that led Great Britain and United States to act in parallel in the fight against international terrorism, following the failed attack on Christmas Day at the Amsterdam-Detroit flight. Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, in an interview with the Messenger does not hide its concern and regret for the EU Foreign Minister, Catherine Ashton, who has not been felt strong enough a common European voice: shutting down mainly British and U.S. embassies , the other embassies still open, are more exposed targets. Meanwhile in USA Lieberman,Senator of the independent state of Connecticut calls for a preventive war against the Middle Eastern country, which he says is out of control: the assertion made by the senator, in clear conflict with the government's foreign policy, however assume an important weight for the Democratic wing of the country, and consequently for the decisions will be taken by Obama's government. Yemen, called the most architecturally fascinating country in the world, is extremely poor, since the only Saudi Arabia's country without oil fields, with a weak central government and without the necessary resources to cope with the violent internal and external crysis: these reasons would make him a good breeding ground for the undisturbed proliferation of terrorist cells . The war with its horrors, is now embodied in the human genetic heritage: the story continues to be, as Shopenauer said "a repetition of the same drama". The century that lies behind it appears to be one of the most bloody, marked by two great world wars and an unspecified number of intestines conflicts, religious wars, ethnic wars and conquest, but above all, too many economical wars. The war is a process that pervades all aspects of life, from everyday life to the unconscious: the experience of war destroys not only the country but also the social reality contained in it, thus destroying the hopes of millions of people. Are currently underway on our planet hundreds of wars, fought primarily in the so-called third world: thanks to the media, we can see in real time the side effects in their tragic reality, but the communication media is a double edged sword that often tricks, in parallel with the interests of the state, and not all wars are "advertised" in the same way: just think how much we have discussed the war in Iraq and how little is known about Chechnya's war, or the continous violations of human rights in China. The reality is often filtered and used in a misleading way to ward off the public. We are fighting wars against windmills, but the modern Don Quixote, unlike the hero unable to understand the complexity of the world around him, has nowadays a sword that could destroy the world in a few seconds. War is an offence to mankind, we carry a heavy legacy behind for too long: there will come a day, perhaps, where the cry of humanity will be stronger than the hiss of so-called smart bombs, the hollow sound of a Kalashnikov, of all those weeping shown on television, and which we quickly forget. On 8 January in Brussels, the EU European Operational Safety will discuss the decisions that will be taken around this problem: Brown has also summoned to London on January 28 an international summit to be held in parallel to the conference already' laid on Afghanistan. The British prime minister's goal is to pulg in the growing threats of terrorism from Yemen and Somalia into the European Council's agenda of this month. Therefore we hope that the resolution of the matter in hand not flow into a preventive war against another undefined enemy.