Defense Secretary James Mattis is said to be pushing for the White House to remove all restrictions, placed during the waning months of President Obama’s presidency, on US military support for the Saudi invasion of Yemen, seeking deeper direct US involvement in fighting the Yemeni Shi’ites.
Mattis is said to be pushing National Security Adviser HR McMaster to agree that US support would combat the “common threat” the US and Saudi Arabia face in Yemen, which appears to be continued Shi’ite autonomy in the northern half of the country.
The US, of course, has already been directly involved in the Saudi war in Yemen from the beginning, providing in-air refueling for Saudi warplanes and participating in a naval blockade that has caused massive food shortages across northern Yemen.
The huge civilian death toll of the Saudi strikes, which involved US-made planes, US-made bombs, and the Pentagon directly refueling them, convinced the Obama Administration to slightly reduce its involvement, fearing legal culpability for the war crimes committed in Yemen. Mattis appears to be hoping that he can reverse this trend, irrespective of the legal concerns.
Whom does Matis want to fight in Yemen…
Why help the Saudis who financed and actually flew the planes on that greaatest attack on America since Pearl Harbor…?????
How am I threatened by who runs North Yemen one way or another? Anyway the Saudis seem to be doing a fine job of slaughtering civilians and kicking off a famine on their own. How would we be helping?
Well, Mattis is a marine. First to fight types aren’t terribly fussy about technicalities.
It probably doesn’t occur to him that the Saudis should be doing their own fighting, and if they can’t, they should declare victory and go home as is customary for second-class militarists pwned by the locals.
Jason Ditz, it’s time!
“Trump Seeks Deeper US Involvement in Yemen War'”
How are people in Chillacothe, Missouri safer by having this war in Yemen?
WHTF……….ARE YOU DOING IN YEMEN,….USA..?
TRUMP, YOU ARE A DISAPPOINTMENT.