Is it getting more and more apparent that Republicans are a national security threat?

@BlueMetalChick What? Where do you get that idea from?

@quitwhendone Uhhhhh all the money we give to Saudi Arabia, Syrian jihadist groups, Sunni militias in various Middle Eastern countries including Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Yemen, the money and weapons we gave to the cell responsible for the Sri Lankan church bombings that happened on Easter Sunday. I can name at least half a dozen terrorist groups that the USA supports monetarily and with weapons, and most republicans (as in, republican politicians, not republican voters) love it.

Then again, most democratic politicians love it too.

@BlueMetalChick It's an American thing in general. We've been funding Islamic fundamentalism for decades. And then we cry foul when it starts to threaten the West (and yet we continue to fund it...!)

@SW-User Saudi Arabia blew up the Twin Towers and yet America still sucks their cock and gives them everything they want and more.

@BlueMetalChick I think Saudi Arabia and it's recent major fuck ups are becoming a new issue for Democrats that I hope leads to serious,physical change. Certain Saudi royals need to die.

@Sarin Any dead Saudi is fine by me. Almost my entire family is dead thanks to those barbaric fucking grease jockeys. My entire home country has been reduced to a cholera-infested pile of rubble and slag. I'm minus a fucking a eyeball over here thanks to those Wahhabi scum.

@BlueMetalChick Well, I think the idea is to fund the groups who are fighting the groups we want to defeat. In the middle east, that means Shia Muslim militias and Iranian backed militias. I don't think we should be funding anyone to fight anyone else at all but that how the U.S. has always done it.

@BlueMetalChick So sorry to read that. What nationality are you? Wha? country do you live in?

@quitwhendone I live in Chicago now but I'm from Sana'a, Southern Yemen. Well, now it's just Yemen, no more Southern and Northern.

@BlueMetalChick Didn't it used to be Sana'a and Aden? I don't know what the war there is about but the Saudis are intent on having their way with the land and its people, it seems.

@quitwhendone Basically, it goes like this. In 1989 the two nations of Northern Yemen, under Sunni control, and Southern Yemen, until Shi'a control, went to war. The Shi'ites won a year later in 1990 and the country was unified into one nation simply called Yemen. The former Sunni leaders were exiled but not killed.

The United States became very upset because the USA hates Shi'a Islam since America and Iran are enemies. So the Americans decided they needed to oust the new Shi'ite leader in Yemen and reinstall Sunni power. However, unlike with what happened in Iraq with Saddam Hussein or Libya with Maummar Gaddafi, Yemen was not suffering from a tyrannical dictator, and so the USA knew that if they tried to invade Yemen without having a despot as a scapegoat, the United Nations would eviscerate them.

So instead, the USA "contracted" Saudi Arabia to fight the war for them. America and Saudi struck a deal that America would supply lots of money and weapons, and Saudi would do the fighting, remove the Shi'ite leaders, and put the Sunni guys back in power.

Iran was pissed because they're Shi'a and they decided to support the Houthi rebels, a Zaidi Muslim movement in Yemen, with weapons and money like America was doing with Saudi Arabia. So for the better part of about twenty years, the Saudi-led Sunni fighters with American support were fighting the Yemeni-led Shi'ite fighters with Iranian support.

In 2014 though, America and Saudi formed the US-Saudi Coalition, and began a blockade of Yemen, not allowing in any food, water, or medicine, and began a massive bombing campaign to destroy any farms, stockyards, or hospitals in Yemen. As a result, over 90,000 children age 5 and younger have starved to death. 14,000,000 people are at high risk of famine. There's an enormous outbreak of cholera, a completely curable disease, because all the drinking water has been contaminated and the Coalition blockade refuses to allow in any medicine. It's a humanitarian disaster, a nationwide fucking nightmare fueled by greed and geopolitical avarice, and it's getting worse every day.

@BlueMetalChick War is an awful way to solve disputes. I think k the US should allow the people in that region to settle their own disputes. It's dumb for outsiders to get involved in civil wars.

Thanks for the history lesson.

@quitwhendone And even if the US did want to be involved, blockading a country and bombing their citizens into oblivion is not the way to do it.

@BlueMetalChick I agree.

@quitwhendone U.S. Foriegn policy has no place taking sides between Muslim cultures. Saudi Arabia as much damage to liberty and Justice as Iran.

If it were me in charge, at this point in my life, I'd make Saudi pigs regret the murder of Koshoggi at the very least.