The Horrifying, Indefensible War on Yemen
By Daniel Larison
August 23, 2017 at 05:25PM
via The American Conservative http://ift.tt/2v71ctY
«The answer to that is that Yemen didn't "fall" into crisis. It was deliberately forced into its present misery through the policy choices of its wealthier regional neighbors and their Western patrons. The wealthy states in the region have been doing this to their neighbor on purpose in an attempt to batter and starve Yemen into submission. Yemen's multiple, overlapping crises didn't just happen. The country didn't accidentally "fall" into anything. It was driven over a cliff by the Saudi-led coalition and their backers in the U.S. and Britain.»