So our pals the saudis have been bombing yemen for a few weeks now. A couple hundred civilians dead, massive physical destruction, including destruction of historical sites, dislocation of people. They've also been blocking airspace so food and medical relief can't be delivered.
They're using our planes, and my understanding is our "intelligence", to do this.
Why? On the surface they're nosing their way into an internal power struggle between the current military dictator and the former military dictator, and between some different tribal groups, with some different religious affiliations. A struggle that I understand the yemeni populace to be largely indifferent to.
This is good news for al quaeda in yemen, and it's allowed them to make advances. (There are reports that the saudis had also been supporting al quaeda in Yemen, before the bombing, but I haven't seen much on that lately.)
Another good thing the saudis have done recently, besides lashing a blogger for insulting islam, and continuing their horrible treatment of women, was a military invasion of bahrain to put down the pro democracy demonstrations there.
I wouldn't shed any tears if someone bombed medina and mecca, just to give the saudis a taste of what they're doing to the yemenis. I'd say they saudis have certainly earned this.
Funny how the US is always on this country or that country's case in the middle east for bad behavior, but when you look at it, it's only the US and its pals who actually do the bombing and invading over there.
They're using our planes, and my understanding is our "intelligence", to do this.
Why? On the surface they're nosing their way into an internal power struggle between the current military dictator and the former military dictator, and between some different tribal groups, with some different religious affiliations. A struggle that I understand the yemeni populace to be largely indifferent to.
This is good news for al quaeda in yemen, and it's allowed them to make advances. (There are reports that the saudis had also been supporting al quaeda in Yemen, before the bombing, but I haven't seen much on that lately.)
Another good thing the saudis have done recently, besides lashing a blogger for insulting islam, and continuing their horrible treatment of women, was a military invasion of bahrain to put down the pro democracy demonstrations there.
I wouldn't shed any tears if someone bombed medina and mecca, just to give the saudis a taste of what they're doing to the yemenis. I'd say they saudis have certainly earned this.
Funny how the US is always on this country or that country's case in the middle east for bad behavior, but when you look at it, it's only the US and its pals who actually do the bombing and invading over there.
Yemen?? WTF??
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