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Title: Why Is Yemen Our War?
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URL Source: http://www.vdare.com/articles/why-is-yemen-our-war
Published: Apr 24, 2015
Author: Pat Buchanan
Post Date: 2015-04-24 14:09:30 by nativist nationalist
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Comments: 22
For a month now, the Saudi air force has been bombing Yemen to reverse a takeover of that nation of 25 million by Houthi rebels, and reinstall a president who fled his country and is residing in Riyadh. The Saudis have hit airfields, armor and arms depots, and caused a humanitarian catastrophe. Nearly 1,000 dead, 3,500 wounded and tens of thousands homeless. The poorest nation in the Arab world is near collapse. Dependent upon imported food, Yemen faces malnutrition and starvation. And the United States has been an accomplice in the Saudi bombing of Yemen. Why? Why is Yemen’s civil war America’s war? What did the Houthis ever do to us? While they bear us no love, their Houthi rebellion was an uprising against a pair of autocrats who had been imposed upon them, and against al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. The Houthis’ main enemy, AQAP, is America’s worst enemy. Why are we then making ourselves de facto allies of al-Qaida? For while the Saudis have been bombing the Houthis, easing the pressure on al-Qaida, AQAP effected a prison break of 270 inmates, including scores of terrorists, and seized the port of Mukalla. The Saudis claim the Houthi rebellion is part of an Iranian Shiite scheme to overrun and dominate the Sunni Middle East. But Pakistan is not buying it, and not sending troops. The Egyptians seem reluctant to enlist. Nor is there hard evidence Iran armed or incited the Houthis who have been fighting for years. Tehran reportedly advised the rebels not to take the city of Aden, and is calling for a ceasefire and peace talks. Saudi propaganda portrays the Middle East as caught up in a great Muslim struggle, with a Shiite Crescent led by Iran seeking to swallow up the Sunni states. But is this true? Or is America being dragged into fighting yet another war where we have no vital interest, against an enemy that has not attacked us and has no plans to do so? In today’s chaotic Middle East, who are our real enemies, those attacking and killing Americans and murdering our friends? First on the enemies list are al-Qaida and ISIS. No terrorist group has killed more Americans than al-Qaida. No terrorist group has behaved with more savagery toward U.S. citizens, Christians, and friends of ours than ISIS. And who is most fiercely resisting these enemies of ours? The Saudis? The Gulf Arabs? Our NATO ally Turkey? By no means. All, at one time or another, have abetted the al-Nusra Front or ISIS in Syria. And none has sent troops to fight the Islamic State in Iraq. Yet the Houthis, two of whose mosques in Yemen’s capital were blown up in March by ISIS, with 135 dead and 350 wounded, have been actively battling these terrorists. In Iraq, it is Shiite militias, admittedly no friends, Iranians, and Kurds who have been aiding Baghdad in battling the Islamic State. It is Hezbollah and Iran who have been backing Damascus with arms and troops in Bashar Assad’s war against ISIS and the al-Qaida affiliate. When it comes to battling our enemies, our Sunni friends have been dragging their feet, or even collaborating. But the Shiite Crescent we are supposed to fear as the new Persian Empire has been actively fighting those same enemies. In his Wall Street Journal column on the Middle East, Yaroslav Trofimov [Email him] reports that the Saudis are euphoric over their successes in bombing the Houthis, and are looking forward to new wars: “This display of military might has already unleashed patriotic fervor in Riyadh. It has spurred talk that once the Houthis are dealt with, Saudi Arabia’s Sunni coalition should move against a more formidable Iranian ally, the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad, and destroy the Syrian air force. “‘The massacres in Syria should stop and its regime there should go,’ said Khalid al-Dakhil, a Saudi sociologist and prominent commentator. ‘The right thing to do after Yemen would be for the Gulf countries and Egypt, Jordan and Turkey to go into Syria to dislodge that regime.'” About this coming Saudi-led blitzkrieg, several observations: First, while the Houthis have been bloodied they are not beaten. The Saudis may have just thrown a rock into a hornets’ nest. Second, how would Hezbollah, Iran, Iraq and Russia respond to a Saudi-led war to overthrow their allies in Syria? Third, if Bashar Assad falls in Syria, who rises to power if not the al- Nusra Front and ISIS, the only effective forces opposing him today? Terrible as is the war that Assad is waging in his own country, is not his regime preferable to what ISIS in Raqqa and al-Nusra in Idlib have on offer to us? Reportedly, the Americans are trying to coax the Saudis out of their war in Yemen. Wise move. Kings don’t tend to last in long wars, especially in wars they themselves have started.
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#1. To: nativist nationalist (#0)
Excellent questions to which we will never get a concise answer. Saudi propaganda portrays the Middle East as caught up in a great Muslim struggle, with a Shiite Crescent led by Iran seeking to swallow up the Sunni states. The goal of the Saudi's is to install the Saud Royal Family on the throne of a united Arabia,and they don't care who has to die or suffer to make this possible. In today’s chaotic Middle East, who are our real enemies... That one is easy to answser. The US State Dept,as always,and the Off-White House.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Saudi propaganda portrays the Middle East as caught up in a great Muslim struggle, with a Shiite Crescent led by Iran seeking to swallow up the Sunni states. The goal of the Saudi's is to install the Saud Royal Family on the throne of a united Arabia,and they don't care who has to die or suffer to make this possible. In today’s chaotic Middle East, who are our real enemies... That one is easy to answser. The US State Dept,as always,and the Off-White House. We should give Israel 100 billion in military aid. Then we should go into the middle east and conquer it. Destroying everything Islamic. Then force Christianity on them all. Mosques would cease to exist.. Make Islam and the Koran and anything associated with it illegal. Then build lots of churches and invite them to a better way of life.
You are proof that we have a holy war going on right now. Yes we do.
And you still have the brass to call yourself a Christian when morally speaking,you are no different than the fundie Muslims.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
The irony is people like him see themselves as being morally superior to the fundie Muslims,when the reality is they are the same people.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
He is a Crusader. You and I see it, I wish more people do.
Then we should put all you atheists in education camps. You would have to stay there until you proclaim Jesus is your lord. Your only food would be mana if it fell from heaven like it did for the Hebrews.
Marching for Jesus winning every war.
Manifest Destiny baby.
Those two are so gullible.
You sound like my asshole younger brother. All knowing, without a clue. Carry on Christian warrior.
Yemen is our war because it will make the politicians and those who own them richer and more powerful.
That,or executions for people the "education camps" didn't work for is what you would do if you had the power,so why don't you admit it?
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
That's been the story in this country ever since Mr.Lincoln's War of Northern Aggression,and all over the world since the dawn of time. The only real difference is that during medieval times the soldiers could hope to get rich from stolen gold or jewels,since anything they found or took from the enemy was theirs. Today all the soldiers get is the right to die or be crippled because the rich and powerful have deemed that everything that belonged to the enemy now belongs to them.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
A great piece by Buchanan. While Iran is certainly pushing for regional hegemony and protecting Shi'a across the region, the Saudis and other Gulf emirates have funded and supplied ISIS and al-Qaeda over the years to further Sunni interests. We should not be the patsies for any of these regional factions, the same exact way that we were the patsy for EU NATO to decapitate Libya's government and leave it in a civil war with a massive refugee crisis.
You mean to force Christianity on the Jews?
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Only ten Jews? Why choose such a limited plan?
I'm pretty sure that isn't what Jesus meant when He said: Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost Christianity is not something you force onto someone. What religion are you anyways?
Christianity is not something you force onto someone. I will just offer the various commands of spreading the Gospel. None of which involves the sword nor forced conversions or 'mass conversions' etc. When it comes to someone being a Christian...a disciple or follower of Christ Jesus, God has a 'vote' and most people forget that. Theologians call this the Sovereignty of God in matters of Salvation. But back to the passages: Matthew 28: 18 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen. Mark 16: 15 And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. 16 He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned. 17 And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; 18 they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.” 19 So then, after the Lord had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God. 20 And they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word through the accompanying signs. Amen. Luke 24: 44 Then He said to them, “These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me.” 45 And He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures. 46 Then He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, 47 and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. 48 And you are witnesses of these things. 49 Behold, I send the Promise of My Father upon you; but tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high.” 50 And He led them out as far as Bethany, and He lifted up His hands and blessed them. 51 Now it came to pass, while He blessed them, that He was parted from them and carried up into heaven. 52 And they worshiped Him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy, 53 and were continually in the temple praising and blessing God. Amen. Acts 1: 4 And being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father, “which,” He said, “you have heard from Me; 5 for John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.” 6 Therefore, when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, “Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” 7 And He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority. 8 But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
"The Lord shall preserve you from all evil; He shall preserve your soul.” (Psalm 121:7)
What a pair of killjoys. : )
The Pan-Arab threat is as exaggerated here as it was when Nasser was the supposed coming Arab strongman. This is about sectarian dominance, Sunni vs. Shi'a. And it has been going on for decades. Only in recent years with the instability following the power vacuum created after we invaded and then left suddenly has it turned outright violent. The dictators like Saddam and Ghaddafi stomped out all the sectarian troublemakers ruthlessly. Now those elements have been given free reign. So you have the Twelvers and Shi'a Iran/Iraq/Syria vs. the Wahhabists and the Sunni elements in Saudi Arabia and the half-dozen oil emirates.
Why? Why is Yemen’s civil war America’s war?
#2. To: sneakypete (#1)
Why? Why is Yemen’s civil war America’s war? Excellent questions to which we will never get a concise answer.
#3. To: A K A Stone (#2)
We should give Israel 100 billion in military aid. Then we should go into the middle east and conquer it. Destroying everything Islamic. Then force Christianity on them all. Mosques would cease to exist.. Make Islam and the Koran and anything associated with it illegal.
#4. To: A K A Stone (#2)
Then force Christianity on them all.
#5. To: Fred Mertz (#3)
You are proof that we have a holy war going on right now.
#6. To: sneakypete (#5)
#7. To: sneakypete (#5)
The irony is people like him see themselves as being morally superior to the fundie Muslims,when the reality is they are the same people.
#8. To: Fred Mertz (#6)
He is a Crusader.
#9. To: Fred Mertz (#6)
He is a Crusader. You and I see it, I wish more people do.
#10. To: Liberator (#9)
#11. To: A K A Stone (#9)
Manifest Destiny baby.
#12. To: nativist nationalist (#0)
#13. To: A K A Stone (#7)
Then we should put all you atheists in education camps. You would have to stay there until you proclaim Jesus is your lord.
#14. To: BobCeleste (#12)
Yemen is our war because it will make the politicians and those who own them richer and more powerful.
#15. To: nativist nationalist (#0)
#16. To: A K A Stone (#2)
We should give Israel 100 billion in military aid. Then we should go into the middle east and conquer it. Destroying everything Islamic. Then force Christianity on them all.
#17. To: buckeroo (#16)
#18. To: A K A Stone (#17)
#19. To: A K A Stone, Fred Mertz, sneakypete, redleghunter, BobCeleste, Liberator, TooConservative (#2)
Destroying everything Islamic. Then force Christianity on them all.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#20. To: Deckard, TooConservative, liberator, BobCelest, A K A Stone (#19)
I'm pretty sure that isn't what Jesus meant when He said: Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost
#21. To: redleghunter, Deckard (#20)
I will just offer the various commands of spreading the Gospel. None of which involves the sword nor forced conversions or 'mass conversions' etc.
#22. To: sneakypete (#1)
The goal of the Saudi's is to install the Saud Royal Family on the throne of a united Arabia,and they don't care who has to die or suffer to make this possible.
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