Scuttling the chance to stop — the US contribution to strategically purposeless war in Yemen

© 2017 Peter Free

 

02 November 2017

 

 

US government consistently avoids doing the right thing

 

For example, Congress:

 

 

House Concurrent Resolution 81 is effectively dead, following a surprise bit of sleight of hand by the House Rules Committee. The resolution demanded an end to US involvement in the Saudi invasion of Yemen, on the grounds that such involvement was never authorized under the War Powers Act.

 

The Rules Committee claimed Yemen doesn’t rise to the level of the War Powers Act [see here] applying.

 

© 2017 Jason Ditz, House Rules Committee Guts Challenge to Yemen War Legality, AntiWar.com (01 November 2017) (excerpts)

 

 

Assisting the Saudis murder thousands of innocents (including children) in Yemen isn't war?

 

See what we've been doing, here and here.

 

American values, I guess.

 

 

The moral? — Don't ever expect the US Government to do the right thing, when the Military Industrial Complex stands to lose money

 

We're "exceptional" alright.