USA policy in the middle east is about occupation, not sound policy that removes fears of ethnic cleansing. Sovereign borders are not determined by chromosome either. (click here)
The Houthis, officially called Ansar Allah, is a Zaidi Shia-led movement from Sa'dah, northern Yemen.
The Housthis, as well as Iran, don't see themselves as rebels. They see themselves as defending their ethnic existence. Is this a convenient excuse for civil war? No. Iran believes it acts to defend and protect Shia in the middle east including Yemen.
Saudi Arabia understands the ethnic dynamics at work here and is the reason why the Kingdom extends it's hand in peace with the promise of good relations again. At the heart of all these issues is a fearful heart for it's Shia existence. So, to the people at war without resolution,victory means their exist and survive. The problem is that while they see their ethnic survival, but, not the survival of their perceived oppressor.
Iran is supportive of the unrest and so called 'fight for survival.' Iran has to be part of the peace to end it's own problems as being a supporter of terrorists, in providing material support for terrorism.
There is no reason for all this to continue. Women and children would welcome the right to survive, worship, love their families and be educated with a quality of life never secured for the Shia. Fighting for their lives is all the Shia have known for decades if not a century or more. The Shia children and their mothers want a chance at life and not a gun in their hands.
March 13, 2016
By Mark Mazzeti
...A year later, (click here) the war has been a humanitarian disaster for Yemen and a study in the perils of the Obama administration’s push to get Middle Eastern countries to take on bigger military roles in their neighborhood. Thousands of Yemeni civilians have been killed, many by Saudi jets flying too high to accurately deliver the bombs to their targets. Peace talks have been stalled for months. American spy agencies have concluded that Yemen’s branch of Al Qaeda has only grown more powerful in the chaos.
The Houthis, officially called Ansar Allah, is a Zaidi Shia-led movement from Sa'dah, northern Yemen.
The Housthis, as well as Iran, don't see themselves as rebels. They see themselves as defending their ethnic existence. Is this a convenient excuse for civil war? No. Iran believes it acts to defend and protect Shia in the middle east including Yemen.
Saudi Arabia understands the ethnic dynamics at work here and is the reason why the Kingdom extends it's hand in peace with the promise of good relations again. At the heart of all these issues is a fearful heart for it's Shia existence. So, to the people at war without resolution,victory means their exist and survive. The problem is that while they see their ethnic survival, but, not the survival of their perceived oppressor.
Iran is supportive of the unrest and so called 'fight for survival.' Iran has to be part of the peace to end it's own problems as being a supporter of terrorists, in providing material support for terrorism.
There is no reason for all this to continue. Women and children would welcome the right to survive, worship, love their families and be educated with a quality of life never secured for the Shia. Fighting for their lives is all the Shia have known for decades if not a century or more. The Shia children and their mothers want a chance at life and not a gun in their hands.
March 13, 2016By Mark Mazzeti
...A year later, (click here) the war has been a humanitarian disaster for Yemen and a study in the perils of the Obama administration’s push to get Middle Eastern countries to take on bigger military roles in their neighborhood. Thousands of Yemeni civilians have been killed, many by Saudi jets flying too high to accurately deliver the bombs to their targets. Peace talks have been stalled for months. American spy agencies have concluded that Yemen’s branch of Al Qaeda has only grown more powerful in the chaos.
The Obama administration has in the meantime been whipsawed by criticism from all sides. Although the United States has provided the Saudi-led coalition with intelligence, airborne fuel tankers and thousands of advanced munitions, Arab allies have at times complained that the support is halfhearted and freighted with too many restrictions.
Critics of the American involvement argue that the White House should not be giving any military assistance at all to what they call a reckless, incoherent war.
“As I read the conflict in Yemen, I have a hard time figuring out what the U.S. national security interests are,” Senator Christopher S. Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, said during a congressional hearing this year...
