Trump Vetoes Congressional Resolution to End US Role in Yemen War

[PJL]

One the all time heartless piss-weak political decisions of the modern era.....already 7,000 lives lost (mostly civilian women and children) and 20 million people on the verge of starving to death........................."WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump in a letter to the Senate said he is rejecting a measure passed by Congress to end US involvement in the Saudi-led war in Yemen."......https://sputniknews.com/us/201904171...-vetoed-trump/

[Ethereal]

By expressly sanctioning this unconstitutional, morally repugnant war, Trump has blackened his legacy forever.

I'm also curious as to what, exactly, Trump thinks he's vetoing.

The congress merely expressed a fact, which is that they never authorized the US war in Yemen. Trump's veto does not change that fact. The war in Yemen is still unauthorized by the congress despite Trump's veto. That makes the war unconstitutional. And it makes Trump's prosecution of it unlawful.

[FindersKeepers]

For the most part -- doesn't the US just provide logistical support?

[alexa]

For the most part, the French only supplied logistical support to the Nazis during the Holocaust.

No biggie.

[MMC]

For the most part -- doesn't the US just provide logistical support?

You have to remember the Iranian supporters want Iran to take control of Yemen, so they can launch attacks on the Saud from there rather than from Iran.


But yeah for the most part the US provides logistical support.

[FindersKeepers]

You have to remember the Iranian supporters want Iran to take control of Yemen, so they can launch attacks on the Saud from there rather than from Iran.


But yeah for the most part the US provides logistical support.

Thank you!

[Tahuyaman]

There is no "US war" in Yemen.

[Ethereal]

For the most part -- doesn't the US just provide logistical support?

Logistical support that goes towards starving millions of innocents, yes.

[Captdon]

Why does anyone care? We fight the terrorists where we find them, Why do the Hate America crowd always take the side of the terrorists. All the rebels have to do is stop the fighting and the war is over.

[Ethereal]

(Foreign Policy) The Houthis Are Not Hezbollah

Donald Trump wants to ramp up Yemen's proxy fight against Iran. One small problem: Tehran doesn't really have a proxy there.

BY JOOST HILTERMANN, APRIL LONGLEY ALLEY | FEBRUARY 27, 2017, 8:40 AM

The first arena in which the Trump administration confronts Iran is shaping up to be Yemen. To the delight of Trump’s Persian Gulf allies, particularly Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, the president’s national security team appears to view the Houthis — a Yemeni militia rooted in the country’s Zaydi Shiite tradition that is currently fighting alongside large parts of the army and northern tribal groupings aligned with former President Ali Abdullah Saleh against an array of domestic opponents — much as they view Hezbollah. That is to say, as part of an Iranian grand plan to build a powerful Shiite alliance against arch-foe Israel and regional competitor Saudi Arabia.

There’s only one problem: The Houthis are not Hezbollah and, despite their publicly expressed sympathies for the Islamic Republic, have not developed a similarly tight relationship with Tehran. Yet the combined efforts of Washington and its Gulf allies could still drive the Houthis into Tehran’s arms.

It’s instructive to compare the rise of the Houthis with that of Hezbollah. Lebanon’s “Party of God” was born in the cauldron of Israel’s 1982 invasion and occupation of that country. It fed on the Lebanese Shiite population’s myriad resentments: their under-representation in Lebanon’s political system, the presence of Palestinian militants (who used southern Lebanon as a launching pad for attacks on Israeli soil), and Israel’s indiscriminate response, of which they were among the main victims. This was a mere three years after the Islamic Revolution, when Iranian Revolutionary Guards, buoyed by political victory and having blocked an Iraqi invasion, were keen to spread their ideology across the Shiite world.

Hezbollah started out as an Iranian experiment, an opportunity Tehran could exploit. But over time, it became something far more substantial: a true and popular (if not universally lauded) representative of Lebanon’s Shiite community with a militia willing to stand up to Israeli infringements of Lebanese sovereignty. This earned it grudging support among Lebanon’s Sunnis and Christians, and — as long as it didn’t pose as a sectarian actor — broad admiration in the Arab world as well. For decades, the fact that Hezbollah received its arsenal from Iran via Syria remained a minor Arab concern — until the 2006 war between Lebanon and Israel highlighted for some Arab regimes its troublesome military power...

There isn't one shred of actual proof that the Houthis are acting as proxies for Iran.

But even if they were, it still wouldn't justify US support for the evil Saudi regime. Iranian influence in Yemen has ZERO nexus to the common defense of the US. It has NOTHING to do with us.