The US is providing logistical, targeting, and intelligence assistance to Saudi Arabia in that nation’s war against its neighbor, Yemen. The United States has conducted drone strikes as part of the operation as well. Yemen is being destroyed in the process, adding another refugee crisis to the Middle East, this one affecting Djibouti, Oman, and Somalia.
This spring, the Houthis began pushing further south. Saudi Arabia, the preeminent Sunni power in the region, gathered a league of Arab nations to intervene and crush the Houthis. Saudi Arabia has been assisted by Egypt and other states in the Persian Gulf. But the real brains of the operation are on loan from Uncle Sam.
Saudi Arabia has been a longtime ally of the United States, a friend in a region where Iran and Iraq have been hostile. But the House of Saud’s war in Yemen is a conflict that is angering several of our other allies. As early as April, Australia demanded a ceasefire to end the humanitarian crisis and killing of civilians. America’s failure to listen or act has consequences for US credibility [such as it exists]. All the US posturing about sparing civilian deaths in Libya and Syria is made into sick hypocrisy by the US support of Saudi Arabia and friends. It also continues the pattern of the US involving itself wherever there is destruction, death, and misery in the Middle East. Quite understandably, those who become victims of the chaos in the region will put blame on the world hegemon that decided to barge in uninvited.
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