Jim wrote:K: Are you supporting the Saudis in what is essentially a Yemenese civil war?
There's no civil war in Yemen. There was until Saleh quit his dictatorship and quit the government. Obama told him to do so back in the glorious April Uprising days but that's not why he left, although he may have thought the paper-tiger would actually send help to the insurrectionists (like in Syria...remember the red lines). The Big O decimated Libya, .....
Most of the world seems to think there is a continuing Yemeni Civil War
Yemen crisis: Who is fighting whom? BBC, Jan 30, 2018.
Saleh did quit in 2011 (April Spring) and the ongoing civil wars actually has been more or less continuous until the present time
Yemeni Civil WarI find no reference saying the Big O (neither Obama or Oscar Robertson) had anything to do with Saleh quitting, but Obama has up the military supplies to the Saudis.
Trump has said we have wasted >$5T in the Middle East - I agree. But he is not moving to end any of our interventions -just rhetoric (it plays well). The results as of this time in Yemen:
So far, the conflict has claimed more than 13,500 lives, with more than 900,000 suffering from cholera. Roughly 20 million Yemenis need humanitarian assistance to meet basic needs — including food and water — out of a prewar population of 28 million.
No winner between the Shiite and Sunni fractions.
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