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The US just bombed Yemen, and no one's talking about it
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<blockquote data-quote="_CY_" data-source="post: 2916134" data-attributes="member: 7629"><p><strong>The US just bombed Yemen, and no one's talking about it </strong></p><p></p><p>We need answers from the candidates on how they would deal with a deadly conflict in one of the Middle East’s poorest countries. We’re not getting them</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/15/us-bombed-yemen-middle-east-conflict#img-1" target="_blank"></a></p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/15/us-bombed-yemen-middle-east-conflict#img-1" target="_blank"><img src="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/300ac10f053661183dde442964ed5c177f974bbf/0_14_4135_2483/master/4135.jpg?w=300&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=1e7931ab68a9d3e5d8ccfed55c4f01ad" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p>Fire and smoke rise after a Saudi-led airstrike hit a site believed to be one of the largest weapons depots on the outskirts of Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, on Friday.</p><p>Saturday 15 October 2016 </p><p></p><p>What if the United States went to war and nobody here even noticed? The question is absurd, isn’t it? And yet, this almost perfectly describes what actually happened this past week.</p><p></p><p>While many Americans, myself included, were all hypnotized by the bizarre spectacle of the Republican nominee for president, a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/13/us-enters-yemen-war-bombing-houthis-who-launched-missiles-at-navy-ship" target="_blank">US navy destroyer fired a barrage of cruise missiles</a> at three radar sites controlled by the rebel Houthi movement in Yemen. This attack marked the first time the US has fought the rebels directly in Yemen’s devastating civil war.</p><p></p><p>The Trump show has managed to bump all serious and necessary policy debates not just off the table but out of the room</p><p></p><p>The cruise missile salvo ramps up the already significant US military involvement in deeply divided and desperately poor Yemen. While it’s true that the US has launched drone strikes on al-Qaida targets in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/yemen" target="_blank">Yemen</a> for years, sometimes killing civilians and even US citizens, this particular military engagement has the potential to drag the US straight into a protracted and escalating conflict. And, as everyone knows, America has an uncanny ability to enter protracted and escalating military conflicts.</p><p></p><p>Yet we’ve heard absolutely nothing about this from our presidential candidates.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/15/us-bombed-yemen-middle-east-conflict" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/15/us-bombed-yemen-middle-east-conflict</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="_CY_, post: 2916134, member: 7629"] [B]The US just bombed Yemen, and no one's talking about it [/B] We need answers from the candidates on how they would deal with a deadly conflict in one of the Middle East’s poorest countries. We’re not getting them [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/15/us-bombed-yemen-middle-east-conflict#img-1'] [IMG]https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/300ac10f053661183dde442964ed5c177f974bbf/0_14_4135_2483/master/4135.jpg?w=300&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=1e7931ab68a9d3e5d8ccfed55c4f01ad[/IMG][/URL] Fire and smoke rise after a Saudi-led airstrike hit a site believed to be one of the largest weapons depots on the outskirts of Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, on Friday. Saturday 15 October 2016 What if the United States went to war and nobody here even noticed? The question is absurd, isn’t it? And yet, this almost perfectly describes what actually happened this past week. While many Americans, myself included, were all hypnotized by the bizarre spectacle of the Republican nominee for president, a [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/13/us-enters-yemen-war-bombing-houthis-who-launched-missiles-at-navy-ship']US navy destroyer fired a barrage of cruise missiles[/URL] at three radar sites controlled by the rebel Houthi movement in Yemen. This attack marked the first time the US has fought the rebels directly in Yemen’s devastating civil war. The Trump show has managed to bump all serious and necessary policy debates not just off the table but out of the room The cruise missile salvo ramps up the already significant US military involvement in deeply divided and desperately poor Yemen. While it’s true that the US has launched drone strikes on al-Qaida targets in [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/world/yemen']Yemen[/URL] for years, sometimes killing civilians and even US citizens, this particular military engagement has the potential to drag the US straight into a protracted and escalating conflict. And, as everyone knows, America has an uncanny ability to enter protracted and escalating military conflicts. Yet we’ve heard absolutely nothing about this from our presidential candidates. [URL]https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/15/us-bombed-yemen-middle-east-conflict[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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