The U.S. is helping Saudi Arabia attack Yemen. Multiple reports have appeared of the killing and wounding of Yemenis, which under the circumstances are war crimes. The U.S. not only supports this aggression, illegitimate under international law, but is participating in it.
The U.S. has been operating in Yemen for some time with drones. This latest open attack takes a new direction. It is yet another facet of a war that is part of America’s Great War that began with Operation Desert Shield against Iraq in 1990 and continues to this day.
The Secretary General of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, has made a speech that analyzes in detail Saudi Arabia’s attacks on Yemen. The speech is lengthy; it appears in full here and here.
This speech is remarkable for its detail, clarity of positions, analysis and scope. Nasrallah pulls no punches.
I will not summarize it or provide details other than to say that in this speech, Nasrallah forcefully and persuasively condemns Saudi Arabia, not only for this particular attack, not its first bombing campaign in Yemen, but also blames it for its failed approaches and policies over a long period of time. He blames Saudi Arabia, an important ally of the U.S., for both Al Qaeda and ISIL. In this context, we in America are still waiting to read the 28 pages of the 9/11 report concerning the Saudi connections, and even that is the least we can expect. America is deeply in the dark concerning its government’s foreign policy machinations because official files are kept secret.
We are not in the dark, however, about the latest open aggression in Yemen in which the U.S. is engaged.
8:11 am on April 1, 2015
