Just a heads up: We're in another war in the Middle East now.

[Comrade Grumpy]

The US is officially working with the Sunni Arab coalition that is now intervening in the Yemeni civil war by bombing the shit out of the country. The US is supplying intelligence (targeting) and logistical support.

Here's the freedom-loving friends of democracy we're aligned with in this:

The Egyptian military coup regime.

The Saudi monarchy.

The Jordanian monarchy.

The Arab Gulf States monarchies.

The Sudanese international war criminal regime.

The Pakistani military regime (barely hidden behind a tattered democracy).

And we're not allying with them to fight ISIS or Al Qaeda, but to pick sides in an internal Yemeni conflict.

Thanks, Obama.

[Comrade Grumpy]

1. Just watched the smarm Saudi ambassador on CNN explaining how...

...they were dropping bombs on their neighbor to fight "Houthi aggression."

Houthis are Yemenis. The Saudis and the rest of that bunch are not.

[guillaumeb]

2. a coalition that includes ISIS?

There is a well known (except in Washington D.C.) connection between Saudi Arabian money and ISIS. So we are funding both sides of the conflict. Just like the Iran/Iraq war. Great for the war whores, bad for everyone else.


http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/iraq-crisis-how-saudi-arabia-helped-isis-take-over-the-north-of-the-country-9602312.html

[think]

3. Oil leaps 5 percent, most in a month, on air strikes in Yemen

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/26/us-markets-oil-idUSKBN0MK0Z020150326

[dixiegrrrrl]

10. Well, then....the war is a success.

Anything to make Big Oil and Big Guns biz running smoothly.

[Dems to Win]

4. US has been waging drone war in Yemen for at least a decade

US war in Yemen is not at all new.

It's all part of the 'war on terror', the 2001 authorization of military force anywhere in the world, anytime.

I support Congresswoman Barbara Lee's efforts to repeal the 2001 AUMF.

[Comrade Grumpy]

8. This is different. The is not the US vs. Al Qaeda in Yemen.

This is the US sided with a bunch of Arab dictatorships who are intervening in a Yemeni civil war that has very little to do with Al Qaeda. We're helping the Saudis bomb the capital city.

[Dems to Win]

11. I would submit that the US drone war in Yemen has precipitated, at least in part, the civil war

The US has been closely allied with the Yemeni leadership all this time, as the Yemen leaders allowed the US to bomb whomever they pleased and call them al Qaeda. Not a recipe for a stable country.

Every drone strike creates more enemies for the US, and for those domestic leaders that allow the US to terrorize populations using drones.

[Comrade Grumpy]

12. Well, the drone war undoubtedly pissed off the people getting droned.

But that wasn't the Houthis. They're from Shia-dominanted north Yemen, which used to be its own country.

In fact this current civil war seems to leave the Al Qaeda types on the sidelines. It's the current, American-backed president (who has now retreated to Saudi Arabia) against the old, Houthi-backed president. Meanwhile, AQAP does its thing.

[bigwillq]

5. We've been at war in the ME forever.

We need to just end all involvement in that region. Nothing will ever change there.

[malaise]

6. They've been in Yemen for years

but so much for the moderate in Saudi Arabia

[Comrade Grumpy]

7. The US has been going after Al Qaeda in Yemen for years.

Now we are intervening in a civil war not involving AQAP. And we in direct alliance without just about the entire roster of Arab despot regimes.

[elias49]

9. I think the US should take a time out

and let Israel do some of the lifting. Hey! They can use our $$ for their weaponry.

[malaise]

13. Yep they are America's and other Western powers' despots

[KoKo]

14. Not much interest about that around these parts.

The "Foreign Affairs Group" has many posts and interesting timely articles from all points of view. But not much response.

It just isn't an issue for Democrats, it seems--or an issue in the coming election.

[awoke_in_2003]

15. Pull out and let all these idiots kill themselves...

There is zero we can do to fix things over there, and whomever wins still needs to sell the oil.