Visiting Riyadh, Defense Secretary James Mattis continued to play up the idea of deeper US involvement in the Saudi war in Yemen, suggesting the US would substantially increase aide to Saudi Arabia, while playing up the idea that the deeper US involvement would be against Iran.
Saudi officials have presented the war in Yemen, against a Shi’ite faction, as amounting to a proxy war against Iran, and Mattis played this up, accusing Iran of having created “another militia in the image of Lebanese Hezbollah” with the Shi’ite Houthis.
Which of course is not true. The Houthi movement was primarily a political movement in northern Yemen, which follows a form of Shi’a Islam distinct from Iran’s. They never had more than very tentative ties with the Iranian government, though Iran has become keen to back them since the Saudi war, primarily to spite the Saudis.
US officials are eager to play up the idea of action against Iran, and with no obvious opportunities to do so in any real way, they may have decided that attacking a random Shi’ite faction in Yemen and spinning that as an attack on Iran is in the cards.
Stop giving money to countries that are not even DEMOCRACIES! Saudi Arabia is a TERRORIST COUNTRY! They sent 15 of the 19 hijackers to the USA to MURDER OVER 3000 PEOPLE! USA supports TERRORIST DICTATORS just like our own POS TRUMP!
An extra 30 billion for defense. There goes the USA infrastructure AGAIN! F**K these WARS! Taxpayers are tired of paying for WORTHLESS WARS that does nothing but make corporations wealthier. STOP ALLOWING PROFITEERING off WAR!
NOTICE how Saudi Arabia is not on the NO FLY LIST? Shows TRUMP SUPPORTS TERRORISM!
Mad Dog pandered to Netanyahu first, of course, and pretends that Iran is a “top sponsor of terror” when chatting with democratic hero Saudi Arabia.
Even the words remain the same when these cutout figures parrot their speeches.
Yeah, let’s do the worst thing we can possibly do. 🙁
The House of Saud are just another Anglo-Israeli puppet regime, Iran would knock them down like a house of cards… that time is coming, one way or another the House of Saud will eventually fall.
LOL, and these A$$ clowns call Assad a butcher. Look in the mirror Mattis.