As war crimes mount in blockaded Yemen, US officials continue to praise the Saudi officials leading the war and the blockade, which the US has been participating in, cheering their promise to allow Yemen’s Sanaa Airport to reopen, despite the fact that the Saudis bombed the airport last week and it’s not likely to be operable anyhow.
Saudi promises to allow aid into Hodeidah port as of noon Thursday were also cheered by the US despite aid ships having since confirmed that the blockading ships aren’t allowing them into the port.
Still, US officials seem to have acknowledged that next to nothing was actually accomplished so far, and the White House issued a statement encouraging “further steps” by the Saudi-led coalition, which again, the US is part of.
Under ordinary conditions, Yemen imports over 90% of its food from overseas. During the war, the blockade has severely limited food access, leading to malnutrition, and a lack of medicine that has killed thousands. With food running out in northern Yemen, aid groups are warning a massive famine is imminent if the blockade remains in place.
There was once a time when the United States tried to stop and prevent famines and starvation in the world . I guess that was a long time ago when we were a Christian country . I heard a few years ago that United States was not a Christian country . It would be a lot more fun thinking we were helping somebody rather than bombing and hurting people . I understand Yemen is suffering Lets help them not hurt them .
Were we a Christian country when we dropped the big ones on Japan? Or maybe firebombing Tokyo? Or when we bombed Korea into the stone age? Viet Nam? Iraq? Afghanistan? Iraq again? How Christian like were our various sanctions over the years, on multiple countries, that have killed almost as many as our bombs? Don’t make me laugh.
Dear eric, never did this happen. btw the bomb dropped on Nagasaki hit the biggest Christian cathedral in Japan and killed most of the large community of Christians there. The pilots were fully aware of this.
Read earlier this morning that four aid planes had landed at Sanaa. Just a drop in the bucket, but hopefully will open the door, especially at the ports, to a regular flow of aid.
This is a deadly game now being played between neocon-occupied US government, and MbS. This war was always US war, and goes far back into the days when US tried all sorts of things in cooperation with Saudi Arabia to diminish the President — incidentally Shia — and tried to give more power to Sunni South. Which by the way was forcibly “united” with north to simplify geopolitics. But old Saleh was a crafty fellow, and held off attempts to associate him with Saudi intelligence funded and operated “Al-Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula “. This allowed US to drone selected politically undesirable. Then came USS Cole. And the Arab Spring provided perfect opportunity to get Saleh removed. As usual, population never knows who is behind their well meaning protests, and how is their very normal unhappines being weaponized and used against them. Saleh was delosed, Hadi (Sunni) took over, population woke up, and before long helpless Hadi — who actually resigned, but was not allowed to by KSA/US — was out of the countrh, and Zaidi tribes of North took up the resistance to US reengineering of the region, whicj meant fighting Saudi Arabia. With bombast KSA announced “coalition” to crush Zaidi tribes. We call them Houthi, by the name of a tribe. Why? So we cannot easily google history of Zaidi in that region. But if we are unwilling to learn, we are prepared to muddle through, and believe in the might of weapons. But to try to dislodge Zaidi tribes from the highly innacessible perch of Yemen highlands would require not just committment to genocide by airforce, but a large ground force prepared to lose soldiers marching up the forbidding cliffs to occupy one village at a time. Two facts are never mentioned — Yemen tribes have always been armed, and kept with technology. Second — North Yemen was independent for over thousand years, and had a highly developed agriculture in valleys and by building steps on mountain sides. Everything grows in thise highlands with very moderate climate — grains, vegetables, fruit and nuts. They keep sheep, goat and kettle, donkeys, horses and camels, as well as chicken, geese and turkeys. Fish from Red Sea coast is shipped inland, and always available.
War conducted under the rule of MbN was cruel. It aimed to destroy step agriculture, food supplies, and irrigation systems. But it is impossible to do it on a large scale — and food production continues.
However, supplies to a large city like Sana’a, were impeded as there are limited amount of roads in mountains. The one good road connecting Hodeidah port and thre plateau of Sana’a built by China in the sixties, is damaged, preventing food transport.
Much what we hear of starvation and cholera is due to water system destruction and poluted drinking water. The starved children pictures we see is the result of cholera emaciation, as well as other diseases linked to poor nutrition in capital.
I get suck at this sudden humanitatian outcry — they were quite unconcerned all these tears. The operative word hrre us profit. These agencies are smelling money, and it us remarkable that it would be US and other NATO enablers that will compete fir the business and governmental funds. They ate vultures — even though people working for them are honorable and caring. But the bottom line is this — MbS wanted to get out of the war a while ago, but he was not the boss. US wanted the war to keep in grinding for many reasons. Now the game is clear: Saudi Arabia is not goingvto be roped into endless war, while Western humanitarians and assorted spies roam inside Yemen, undermining Saudi concerns, and have the right to endlessly complain about Saudi operations. If you liok ar Yemeni information agency (Saba), ne will see that Yenen lists US as leading the war, not Saudi Arabia. By not cooperating with humanitarian concerns, MbS is seeking political settlement before any sgenrs if Western governments move in. MbS has already prevented Hadi from going to his “capital” Aden. Clear sign that the scheming and angling for victory us novlonger in the cards. But that is not neicon desire. They cannot abandon wars, and will have to be pried lise from Yemeni orize while digging into doorjsms with their fingernails.
The cruelty of the “exceptional nation” to anyone apart from its puppets is beyond dispute.