30.09.2015 - 12:51 [ Antiwar ]

The US Is Neck-Deep in Yemeni Blood

Where is the media outrage, where is the great debate over the wisdom of enabling such a civilian massacre? Where are all those “humanitarian” interventionists who cajoled the US into unleashing air strikes on Libya? They’re nowhere to be found, there has been little to no debate in the media, and US officials don’t even mention what is going on in Yemen. In Obama’s recent speech to the UN General Assembly included no specific mention of the Yemeni civilian death toll, because that would mean acknowledging his role in facilitating it. The UN itself has become something of a farce amid the rising civilian death toll, with the country responsible for said death toll, Saudi Arabia, heading a UN Human Rights Council.