U.S. and U.K. Continue to Actively Participate in Saudi War Crimes, Targeting of Yemeni Civilians
While
there has been a chorus of condemnation of Russia and Assad, the media
has largely ignored the fact that the US and UK are both arming and
directing the Saudis' bombardment of Yemen, resulting in the slaughter
of civilians there.
Glenn Greenwald:
[Barack Obama],
the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner was explicitly advised [by his own
officials] that he might be a collaborator in war crimes by arming a
campaign that deliberately targets civilians, and continued to provide
record-breaking amounts of arms to aid their prosecution. None of that
should be surprising: It would be difficult for Obama to condemn
“double-tap” strikes of the kind the Saudis just perpetrated — where
first responders or mourners are targeted — given that he himself has
used that tactic, commonly described as a hallmark of “terrorism.” For
their part, the British blocked EU inquiries into whether war crimes
were being committed in Yemen, while key MPs have blocked reports
proving that U.K. weapons were being used in the commission of war
crimes and the deliberate targeting of civilians. ...
One reason
American and British political and media elites love to wax eloquently
when condemning the brutality of the enemies of their own government is
because doing so advances tribal, nationalistic ends: It’s a strategy
for weakening adversaries while strengthening their own governments. But
at least as significant a motive is that issuing such condemnations
distracts attention from their own war crimes and massacres, the ones
they are enabling and supporting.
