kalm wrote:SDHornet wrote:

Uh...none of those folks are on "our" side....whatever "our" side is.
Uh That's kind of my point. Many of them are on our side enough to give them money and weapons...and kiss their rings...
A problem (and not the only one) with the article, and many such articles, is that they carefully edited it to minimize the fact that Obama got us rolling in that area. Obama's so called effort to limit civilian casualties is a farce. As pointed out in the article, 12 civilians were killed in a wedding drone attack under Obama, and they list several other civilian casualties...but they did not emphasize Obama was responsible as they are emphasizing Trump's responsibility. And, even worse, under Obama, we had American advisers inside the Saudi command centers while the Saudis routinely bombed Yemen hospitals and civilian targets. Our excuse? Even though we helped the Saudis identify targets, we didn't actually make the final calls regarding where the Saudi air force bombed.

But hey, we watched them, in the same room, conduct those missions time after time.
So yeah, the folks in Yemen, especially the ones in that village, know we bomb the crap out of their people...they've experienced it first hand many times under Obama.
It is ridiculous that our role in Yemen, and Libya, have been consistently under reported by the Obama friendly press, and our role in Syria was framed as Obama trying to help innocent civilians defeat the oppressive, Russian backed Assad regime, when all the while Obama killed in the name of, and propped up, a corrupt and violently oppressive Saudi regime.
Trump should get the hell out of the Middle East. But, the whack jobs in the intelligence and defense departments are hell bent on staying involved in that area, despite the fact that we keep making enemies. It is almost as though they have blinders on because it is all that they have known to do.
