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You could say that, but you'd be ignoring the fact that the Yemeni civil war is a proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia, and that the U.S. is the one backing,
by nowarninglabel 9y ago
You could say that, but you'd be ignoring the fact that the Yemeni civil war is a proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia, and that the U.S. is the one backing, funding, and selling arms to Saudi Arabia to use in the war. It is also providing ongoing logistical support.
- navigator01 9y agoYes Iran and Saudi Arabia are also exacerbating the conflict. The US has been providing support to Saudi long before the Yemen war began.
- lostlogin 9y agoOne does wonder what Saudi Arabia would have to do before it lost the support of the US.
- stevenwoo 9y agoThey can send the majority of the 9/11 attackers to the US and the US did nothing to Saudi Arabia, so of course our government is now more friendly with Saudi Arabia than any other country on earth. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saudi/analyses/wahhabism.html http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saudi/analyses...
- foobarian 9y agoSimple: run out of oil.
- navigator01 9y agoAh yes, let's pull support from one of the most stable nations in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia has their hands in some bad stuff but they are far preferable to ISIS or a prolonged civil war.
- lostlogin 9y agoI don’t think ‘stable’ has the same meaning for me as it does for you.
- navigator01 9y agoMaybe you aren't using the accepted definition of stable? What fills the void when nations in the Middle East fall is chaos.
- lostlogin 9y agoBelow is the first google hit I get for “Saudi Arabia Politics”. They fund terrorism, attack allies, export Wahhabism, oppress, torture and kill political dissent, exclude women from everything and that’s just just scratching the surface. Why do you think Saudi Arabia is stable? Condemning them and pulling them into line doesn’t mean they become a failed state. Even just stopping exporting billions of dollars of arms to them would be a start. www.forbes.com/sites/dougbandow/2017/06/24/with-new-crown-prince-saudi-arabia-doubles-down-on-political-repression-and-regional-aggression/amp/
- dsabanin 9y agoHow would Iran fighting Saudi Arabia be any better for Yemen without US involvement?