Trump's Yemen Policy Serves Saudi Royals Better Than Americans
The president is escalating another costly war of choice in a country where blowback for the many innocents killed is more likely than lasting security gains.
How many highway lanes could be paved, how many bridges repaired, how many illnesses averted, how many opiate addicts saved from overdoses, how many veterans given better care with the hundreds of millions of dollars that the Trump administration is spending on discretionary military operations in impoverished Yemen?
The United States is allied with Saudi Arabia as it prosecutes a brutal military campaign there. “The U.S. role in the war is substantial,” Michael Brendan Dougherty . “Saudi Arabia buys most of its weapons from
