As Iraq finally pries the death grip of the Islamic State off of
its bloodied form, you’d think US policy would reflect the lessons
learned from killing innocent civilians and destroying the basic functions
of a nation. Instead, more than a decade of using drones to “target”
suspected terrorists, the Trump administration has now opened the
door wide for the Saudis to ramp up the carnage in Yemen.
Just as the invasion of Iraq eventually produced the Islamic State
(ISIS or IS), the killing of innocent Yemenis for no moral reason
at all is providing a recruitment tool for terrorist organizations
throughout the Middle East and Africa. And just as the Iraq invasion
was predicated on a false claim of weapons of mass destruction, the
war in Yemen rests on the bogus argument that Iranians
are supporting terrorism in that country. In the first two years
of the conflict in Yemen, the United States was not able to point
to any evidence of Iranian weapons d..
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