Are the profits at Lockheed Martin that bad? I know the F35 contracts were a real blow to the ego, but, we aren't going to war with Saudi Arabia. Did a 911 family member insist on writing this?
October 11, 2016
By the Editorial Board
Airstrikes (click here) by a Saudi-led coalition that devastated a funeral in Yemen on Saturday make it clear that the United States must end its complicity in a civil war that has caused a humanitarian catastrophe in one of the world’s poorest countries and fueled extremism. It is within President Obama’s power to do so. Saudi Arabia and its Gulf state allies depend on Washington for aircraft, munitions, training and in-flight refueling. The United States also helps Saudi Arabia guard its borders.
October 11, 2016By the Editorial Board
Airstrikes (click here) by a Saudi-led coalition that devastated a funeral in Yemen on Saturday make it clear that the United States must end its complicity in a civil war that has caused a humanitarian catastrophe in one of the world’s poorest countries and fueled extremism. It is within President Obama’s power to do so. Saudi Arabia and its Gulf state allies depend on Washington for aircraft, munitions, training and in-flight refueling. The United States also helps Saudi Arabia guard its borders.
The
administration insists its support for the coalition isn’t a “blank
check.” But so far it has offered only stern words in response to an
ever widening list of coalition attacks on civilians and civilian
facilities that under international law are not legitimate military
targets. If the Saudis refuse to halt the carnage and resume
negotiations on a political settlement, Mr. Obama should end military
support. Otherwise, America could be implicated in war crimes and be
dragged even deeper into the conflict. On Monday, Houthi rebels who have
been fighting with the Yemeni government reportedly launched a
ballistic missile deep into Saudi Arabia, and on Sunday they may have
fired on a United States Navy destroyer, but missed....
Saudi Arabia did not ask for this conflict with Yemen. The Yemen Houthis initiated the first border incursion.
August 27, 2016
Saudi Arabia did not ask for this conflict with Yemen. The Yemen Houthis initiated the first border incursion.
August 27, 2016
Najran (Saudi Arabia) (AFP) - A rocket fired from Yemen (click here) killed a
three-year-old boy Saturday in the Saudi border region of Najran, a
civil defence official said, in the latest cross-border attack by
Iran-backed Yemeni rebels.
Major
Ali al-Shahrani, civil defence spokesman in southwest Saudi Arabia,
told reporters a nine-year-old brother of the boy was also wounded when a
Katyusha rocket hit their family's home.
The
attack came a day after rockets fired from Yemen struck a power station
in Najran, marking a rare hit on Saudi Arabia's infrastructure after
months of periodic bombardment of the area....
The editorial makes the single bombing by Saudi Arabia sound sterile as if there is only one bad guy. It seems as though the Yemeni Houthis have a good enough aim to land missiles near a USA Navy Ship.
October 10, 2016
By Reuters
Yemen's Houthi movement launched a ballistic missile (click here) deep into Saudi Arabia and may also have fired on a U.S. warship, two days after an apparent Saudi-led air strike killed 140 mourners at a funeral attended by powerful tribal leaders.
Saturday's air strike ripped through a wake attended by some of the country's top political and security officials, outraging Yemeni society and potentially galvanizing powerful tribes to join the Houthis in opposing a Saudi-backed exiled government.
On Monday, a Saudi-led coalition waging war in Yemen said it had intercepted a missile fired by the Houthis at a military base in Taif in central Saudi Arabia, striking deeper then ever before in the latest in a series of more than a dozen missile attacks. A missile was also fired at Marib in central Yemen, a base for pro-government militiamen and troops who have struggled to advance on the Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa....
Morality is a very big word. It is not an advertisement for taking sides. Morality usually is a balance and carries with it recognition of unequal justice. Morality is principled and requires commitment to values long before the injustice is committed.
June 3, 2003
Tewksbury, Mass.,Raytheon Company (click here) has been awarded a direct sales contract at an undisclosed amount from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to provide technical, training and logistics support for the Kingdom's Patriot and Hawk Air Defense Systems.
"Raytheon has built a strong relationship with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia over the past 36 years and is committed to providing services and equipment of the highest standards to the Royal Saudi Air Defense Forces," said Russ Ouellette, vice president of Saudi Arabian Programs for Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems.
Patriot is a combat-proven air and missile defense system capable of simultaneously engaging and destroying aircraft, cruise missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles and tactical ballistic missiles. The Hawk system provides robust low-to-medium altitude air defense against air breathing threats and, when integrated with Patriot, low-tier defense against tactical ballistic missiles.
Based in Tewksbury, Mass., Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems provides integrated air and missile defense and naval and maritime war fighting systems, including modeling and simulation capabilities, for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, and strong global integrated capabilities for Army, Navy, Marine Corps and technology customers.
Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), with 2002 sales of $16.8 billion, is an industry leader in defense, government and commercial electronics, space, information technology, technical services, and business and special mission aircraft. With headquarters in Lexington, Massachusetts, Raytheon employs more than 76,000 people worldwide.
When has Yemen not been near collapse?
...Yemen
is near collapse, with 80 percent of the country in need of
humanitarian aid. Al Qaeda’s affiliate there is becoming stronger and
the population more radicalized. The longer the war goes on, the harder
it will be to end.
The conflicts are more than simply Yemen and Syria, so to cast a cloud over Iran is not valid. Iran is in violation of the small arms treaty. Start there, but, don't think there is a reason for the USA to enter yet another zone of the world void of authority. Too many people die when the USA is involved. Yes, even though we don't use barrel bombs.
In Iraq, there are at least 165,000 civilian deaths. Add to that the fact the total death count, including combatants, is 251,000 according to "Iraq Body Count" (click here) and realize how a power vacuum is defined. The USA does not belong in the wars in the middle east. 251,000 is one percent of the entire population of Iraq. One percent in the USA would be slightly less than 3,200,000.
That is a modest estimate of the Iraqi dead. There are some counts estimated over one half a million dead CIVILIANS (women, children and the elderly). There is one count that estimates 800,000 or more. The average USA soldier kills 200 people versus one USA dead soldier.
The USA doesn't belong in wars or conflicts in the Middle East,
It never did.
The editorial makes the single bombing by Saudi Arabia sound sterile as if there is only one bad guy. It seems as though the Yemeni Houthis have a good enough aim to land missiles near a USA Navy Ship.
October 10, 2016
By Reuters
Yemen's Houthi movement launched a ballistic missile (click here) deep into Saudi Arabia and may also have fired on a U.S. warship, two days after an apparent Saudi-led air strike killed 140 mourners at a funeral attended by powerful tribal leaders.
Saturday's air strike ripped through a wake attended by some of the country's top political and security officials, outraging Yemeni society and potentially galvanizing powerful tribes to join the Houthis in opposing a Saudi-backed exiled government.
On Monday, a Saudi-led coalition waging war in Yemen said it had intercepted a missile fired by the Houthis at a military base in Taif in central Saudi Arabia, striking deeper then ever before in the latest in a series of more than a dozen missile attacks. A missile was also fired at Marib in central Yemen, a base for pro-government militiamen and troops who have struggled to advance on the Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa....
Morality is a very big word. It is not an advertisement for taking sides. Morality usually is a balance and carries with it recognition of unequal justice. Morality is principled and requires commitment to values long before the injustice is committed.
Morality is at it's best when it ends injustice before it starts. The injustices on both sides of the Saudi-Yemen conflict are too fresh for either side to identify morality and it's absence.
...All
of this comes at a moment when America’s ties with Saudi Arabia are
fraught over Syria and Riyadh’s opposition to the Iran nuclear deal. Mr.
Obama has supported the Saudi war effort in Yemen and sold the Saudis a
total of $110 billion in arms, including a recent $1.15 billion order
for tanks and other weapons, to appease Riyadh’s anger over the Iran
deal. The tank sale went forward even though some administration
officials have been worried that it could implicate the United States in
war crimes. Last month, a Senate effort to block the tank sale failed....
The USA has provided Saudi Arabia with weapons for a long time.
Tewksbury, Mass.,Raytheon Company (click here) has been awarded a direct sales contract at an undisclosed amount from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to provide technical, training and logistics support for the Kingdom's Patriot and Hawk Air Defense Systems.
"Raytheon has built a strong relationship with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia over the past 36 years and is committed to providing services and equipment of the highest standards to the Royal Saudi Air Defense Forces," said Russ Ouellette, vice president of Saudi Arabian Programs for Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems.
Patriot is a combat-proven air and missile defense system capable of simultaneously engaging and destroying aircraft, cruise missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles and tactical ballistic missiles. The Hawk system provides robust low-to-medium altitude air defense against air breathing threats and, when integrated with Patriot, low-tier defense against tactical ballistic missiles.
Based in Tewksbury, Mass., Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems provides integrated air and missile defense and naval and maritime war fighting systems, including modeling and simulation capabilities, for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, and strong global integrated capabilities for Army, Navy, Marine Corps and technology customers.
Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), with 2002 sales of $16.8 billion, is an industry leader in defense, government and commercial electronics, space, information technology, technical services, and business and special mission aircraft. With headquarters in Lexington, Massachusetts, Raytheon employs more than 76,000 people worldwide.
When has Yemen not been near collapse?
The conflicts are more than simply Yemen and Syria, so to cast a cloud over Iran is not valid. Iran is in violation of the small arms treaty. Start there, but, don't think there is a reason for the USA to enter yet another zone of the world void of authority. Too many people die when the USA is involved. Yes, even though we don't use barrel bombs.In Iraq, there are at least 165,000 civilian deaths. Add to that the fact the total death count, including combatants, is 251,000 according to "Iraq Body Count" (click here) and realize how a power vacuum is defined. The USA does not belong in the wars in the middle east. 251,000 is one percent of the entire population of Iraq. One percent in the USA would be slightly less than 3,200,000.
That is a modest estimate of the Iraqi dead. There are some counts estimated over one half a million dead CIVILIANS (women, children and the elderly). There is one count that estimates 800,000 or more. The average USA soldier kills 200 people versus one USA dead soldier.
The USA doesn't belong in wars or conflicts in the Middle East,
It never did.
