A Crisis Made in America: Yemen on Brink of Famine After U.S. Cuts Aid While Fueling War

“The U.S. is measurably less safe because of what their allies have done in Yemen.”

https://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/17/yemen_crisis_us_uae_saudi_arabia

A Crisis Made in America: Yemen on Brink of Famine After U.S. Cuts Aid While Fueling War

https://truthout.org/video/us-cuts-aid-to-yemen-while-fueling-war-and-famine/

US Cuts Aid to #Yemen While Fueling War and #Famine

What has happened with allowing key U.S. allies, like the UAE and Saudi Arabia, to do what they have done in Yemen is that this hunger and this conflict has allowed not just al-Qaeda, but ISIS to become resurgent in Yemen again.

Just this last week, there were a number of pretty effective ISIS and al-Qaeda attacks.

The U.S. is measurably less safe because of what their allies have done in Yemen.

But one of the things that is really interesting, that so many of us that are covering foreign affairs are looking at really closely, is that the ICC, the International Criminal Court, has now said that the chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, can begin to look into U.S. war crimes in Afghanistan.

And that is precedent-setting, because given what the IG report, the unredacted version, shows about the U.S.'s disregard for civilian casualties perpetrated by their allies with their bombs, there is a real conversation that is beginning about whether the U.S. is opening itself up for further cases of war crime prosecution on Yemen.

And it’s a pretty incredible case that is being discussed.

And yet, any time that you bring this formally in on record to the State Department or to Trump administration officials, they say,

“Well, this is about American manufacturers, about American workers being able to make money out of American bombs being dropped in Yemen.”

And what we have seen with the engagement that we have found, not just for this piece, but also for the previous investigations that we’ve done, is, actually — and, actually, I take heart from this — is that so many of our audience, whether it’s in America or around the world, don’t believe that.

They don’t believe that money should be made over the deaths of innocent civilians halfway around the world, in a country that was already a humanitarian disaster even before this ill-thought-through #intervention.

#antiWar #starvation #warCrimes #profit

“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, but lose his soul?" -Mark 8:36

[Plenty of good reasons not to vote for either Trump or Biden.]