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The US just bombed Yemen, and no one's talking about it

theguardian.com

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Let me summarize so far the US involvement in the middle east: US gets involved in Iran, then in Iraq - thing gets worse. US gets involved in Afghanistan - al quaeda is born. US make very limited involvement in Iraq - things get better. US gets involved in Afganistan again - things go to hell US invades Iraq - thing go to deeper hell US interfere minimally with Egypt's revolution by backing the winner both times - the country is somewhat stable. US interferes more heavily after dragging their feet in Libya and the place is in low level civil war. US interferes in Syria and we have hell on earth there.

See a pattern - you can rely on US to make the worst choice in the majority of cases.

The only sensible strategy in the Middle East is to support the strongman as long as he keeps the place together and switch to the new one, when the old no longer is. Realpoltik 101 - just listen to Kissinger.

Beyond your US criticism, I think the main lesson is how you can wash the media while people think they are not missing every breakthrough story.

Look. The best natural position for us is to wait for natural winner to emerge and help him consolidate and work to have him as semi client. Instead US often chooses puppet that is 100% obedient but lacks the strength to rule a country - Karzai and the Iraq guy and the shah are prime examples.

The question was what candidates think - Trump don't have the brain to coherently describe that position - although his stronman admiration shows he instinctively gets it. And Clinton lacks the balls - because the whole left will jump against her.

I read several articles about this in the news before I learned that "no one is talking about it" - go figure.

Apparently you didn't read this one though, considering

> Yet we’ve heard absolutely nothing about this from our presidential candidates.

= it's not about it being unreported in the news.

I did read that part of the article, thanks.

Interesting, I presume the Guardian is describing the lack of US cable television news such as CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, the nightlies on ABC, NBC and CBS, as well as the Sunday morning staples Meet the Press, Face the Nation, Fox News Sunday, taking time to cover the event and it's implications, as well as the lack of attention given by those running for office of all manners of position. Then again, you "read" several articles, and commented on one from a British source, I understand you can't see that no one is talking about it but you should be able to hear the silence

I knew about this earlier in the week due to coverage on the Fox News and/or CNN networks.

Thanks for making my point for me, the US involvement in Yemen has been going on for months

I was referring specifically to the missles fired at the US destroyer and the bombing of the Houthi radar installations, not the conflict in Yemen.

I can agree that the election sells more ads than substantive coverage of world events and did learn some things from the Source piece.

Is this the same location that recently fired anti-ship missile to US warship?

There was some speculation on reddit whether it was "someone trying to draw US into the conflict" or "US poking the bees nest, seeking excuse to get involved". Now that US got involved, we can speculate if the admirals are idiots, or is the plan working..

The US had been helping the Saudis wage war in Yemen well before the anti-ship missile was fired at the US destroyer, which presumably is in response to a wedding being bombed.

Matt Lee of the Associated Press asked State Department spokesman John Kirby what the difference between US involvement in Yemen and Russian involvement in Syria is, to which there was no answer.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/syria-co...

It was a top post on https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/578ags/us_launch...

The US has been at war in Yemen for years.

We've always been at war with Eurasia.

We do lots of terrible shit nobody wants to talk about. Sadly.

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