How can anyone condone US support for the genocide in Yemen.

I simply don't understand it. Unless you just really hate Yemeni people and want them dead, I can't fathom any other reason why you'd think it's ok. Even if you completely disregard the fact that it's a humanitarian disaster, it's still costing all your tax money, violating the US Constitution, and violating international law. Like, how are you benefiting from it?

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HoraceGreenley · 61-69, M

What would you like the US to do?

BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F

@HoraceGreenley How about nothing? What interest does the US have in ousting one government from Yemen just to put in another? Why the flipping fuck is America in Yemen to begin with? Has anyone in Yemen ever attacked the USA? Has anyone ever threatened to attack the USA? Does anyone in Yemen even have the capacity to attack the USA even if they wanted to?

93,000 children, aged five and under, are dead from starvation directly because of the US blockade. 14,000,000 people are at high risk of famine. What could we possibly be doing to help anyone by causing that much death? Imagine one child dying because they had no food due to a military blockade. Now multiply that by nearly one hundred thousand.

HoraceGreenley · 61-69, M

@BlueMetalChick Honestly, Yemen is not on Americans radar. We really don't know what is happening.

BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F

@HoraceGreenley Not on America's radar? We're blockading the country and bombing everything in sight, we're committing a full-scale ethnic cleansing, are you nuts? Do you know how much of your tax money goes to the war in Yemen every year? How much money is used to build aircraft and munitions to be dropped, or towards the necessary assets to prevent food, water, and medicine from entering the country?

Even if it was no money spent at all, who the hell could possibly think it's alright to prevent those extremely basic needs from entering someone else's country to assist sick and starving people?

HoraceGreenley · 61-69, M

@BlueMetalChick I'm saying for citizens. There's no media coverage.

BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F

@HoraceGreenley Oh, in that case yeah, most citizens are fairly in the dark about the situation on the Arabian Peninsula.

Shockingly, it was one of my least favorite news outlets - CNN - that covered the Yemeni genocide recently and did a pretty good job.

CopperCicada · M

@HoraceGreenley We should stop supporting Saudi Arabia on the ethical and spiritual grounds that their track record with human rights is abysmal. That's what we should do.

HoraceGreenley · 61-69, M

@CopperCicada I agree with your assessment of Saudi Arabia's track record. But countries have interests based on their own self-interest.