Speaking today on the nearly month-long war against Yemen, Secretary of State John Kerry insisted that the US will continue to endorse the Saudi war so long as the Shi’ite Houthis continue to resist them.
The US has been endorsing the Saudi war against Yemen from the start, and has participated in a support role, refueling Saudi warplanes and helping them select targets in a war that has killed over 550 civilians so far.
Kerry’s position mirrors that of the pro-Saudi factions in Yemen, which is that the Houthis have to cede all cities to them, and totally disarm before any peace talks will be permitted.
At that point, of course, there will likely be no incentive for the installed Saudi-backed regime to negotiate at all, since the Houthis will have totally given them everything they wanted without giving up anything in return.
The Houthis, by contrast, have conditioned their participation in peace talks on the Saudis ending their strikes, something the Saudis have ruled out doing.
They have another war on their hand and don't know what to do about it. You get another war when you start the first one without knowing why you started it and when it will ends. Dose Libya ring a bell Mr. Kerry?
Wow, tyrant Kerry says Saudi war he backs until the Houthis (yemenis) stop resisting? When did Saudi Arabia own the territorial integrity of Yemen? Kerry demonstrates how we no longer have any credibility regarding rule of law and human rights. The DC Establishment are criminal to the core and depraved human beings. They support the most violent regime on the planet who suppress their women worse than dogs and support a regime that funds, arms and trains violent Jihadist terrorist groups in Syria. Can you say a hypocrite?
The USA will find itself on the wrong side of history by helping SA against Yemen!
And when the Houthis give up their weapons, they will be butchered by the salafists And who will protect the Houthis? Certainly not the Americans. Kerry really is a moron
Got to find a new way out of wrecking the nuclear peace deal, beat up on shiites' somewhere until Iran hopefully has to get involved and then point out see they aren't interested in peace.
This is about the nuclear deal.
Hawks are gleeful becaise they think this meants we will be forced to fight Iran.
I suspect we've made a deal with the Saudis to support them in return for the tepid support they've already given to this deal we all know they hate.
Whatever else Iran is, it is sophisticated about such negotiation. It knows what it wants most, and right now that is not Yemen. Later, it might be an issue, after the nuclear deal is done. Later, the US might keep its distance, only taking the money from the Saudis.
Of course this means the people of Yemen are being sacrificed. Nobody can be shocked that any party involved in this would do that. They're the victims here, not the subject.
The Saudis are the losers and fools in this. Yemen can't work out well for them.
This could be such a disaster it will end the current monarchy's deal in Saudi Arabia. We need to be looking at what comes next in Saudi, not just what comes next in Yemen or Iran..
I agree with this. The Saudis wanted to control Yemen and the US government made some deal to help out with it. I think the Houthis are really not supported by Iran at all. No Iranian ships have been found to carry weapons, this is just a pretext to stop the food shipments to a nation that imports 90% of its food. Such misery to inflict on people already enduring a civil war? It is a joke that the US lectures other nations about abusing human rights.
Has there ever been anyone less relevant than this clown? Probably not, IMO. I wonder if he realizes yet that by taking this job his entire body of work as a Senator has been wiped off the books. He will be remembered as the vapid SOS who was completely in over his head. Some people never learn when to stay put and keep their heads down.
He wasn't a good senator so that getting wiped off the books will be a good thing for him.
We always demand what outcome we want in any particular negotiation to be obtained before the negotiations start. That's why we're exceptional. Exceptionally arrogant that is.
The Houta government is by and for the laboring-class, the uneducated lower half of society that does all the manual labor. Surely, all other government in the Middle-East are ruled by the rich ruling class, the 25% highest achievers that hoard three-fourths of all the wealth. So, the danger of such a good example as this must be bombed out of existence.