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Why am I Mr. Pink? Posted March 30, 2017 Share Posted March 30, 2017 Several eyewitness accounts describe the helicopter attack on the boat, including video of survivor statements after they came ashore. “The survivors said they came under attack from another boat at 9 p.m., the crew used lights and shouted to signal this is a civilian boat,” ICRC spokeswoman Iolanda Jaquemet told Reuters. “Nevertheless, it did not have any effect and a helicopter joined in the attack,” she said. Only the coalition has military helicopters. Their opposition, the Houthis, don’t. “Instead of suspending weapons sales to Saudi Arabia, given that U.S. arms have been repeatedly used in unlawful coalition attacks throughout this war, the US appears poised to authorize even more sales, once again risking complicity in future coalition attacks, and potentially exposing U.S. individuals to criminal liability for aiding and abetting coalition crimes.” In December, the Obama administration suspended the sale of precision guided munitions to Saudi Arabia after the Saudis used such U.S. manufactured weapons in the strike on a funeral home. A senior US official told reporters at the time that there was “absolutely no justification for the strike.” http://www.newsweek.com/after-somali-massacre-should-we-sell-more-arms-saudis-574840?hl=1&noRedirect=1 ---------------------------------------------------------- Our supposed allies in SA/UAE sound like Russia. At first they deny they were in the area, then they say they were in the area but didnt fire on civilians .. You guys are the only ppl with USA supplied Apache attack helicopters ... I know SA doesnt not want a Iran backed Houthi govt or group right next door to them in Yemen and Houthis have fired missiles into SA ..... tough spot to be in. I guess I wish SA could be more restrained. Firing on a rubber boat full of civilians from a helicopter? Firing a missile at a funeral home? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tshile Posted May 23, 2017 Share Posted May 23, 2017 The Saudi Visit and Trump’s Unprincipled Foreign Policy Quote Administration officials always try to spin the president’s words and deeds to put them in a favorable light, but this is ridiculous: https://www.twitter.com/FoxNews/status/866778778994868224 No one believes this about this trip or the Trump administration’s foreign policy in general. Trump and his advisers have made closer relations with bad regional clients and combating terrorism their top priorities, and Trump made sure to say nothing at all about how the Saudis or other despotic clients treat their people or the people of neighboring countries. Trump supports the Saudi-led coalition’s atrocious war on Yemen even more eagerly than his predecessor did (and Obama practically gave them carte blanche), and any government that does that clearly isn’t concerned about defending human rights or alleviating humanitarian disasters. If we judge the U.S. by its actions under both Obama and Trump, we have to conclude that our government is much more interested in keeping despotic clients happy and “on side” than it is in opposing their indiscriminate killing of civilians and their creation of a man-made famine. These are the wrong policies for the U.S. for all the reasons I have stated for over two years, but it is telling that they cannot be openly defended by members of the administration. So we are treated to the fantasy that the “entire trip is about human rights” when so far it has been a show of indifference to the suffering of innocent people, especially those in Yemen that are being killed and starved to death by the president’s recent hosts and their allies. There are always practical limits to what the U.S. can do and how much influence our government has, and there are always trade-offs to be made in foreign policy, but what we see with the Trump administration’s dealings with the Saudis and other regional clients is something much less defensible. They make no attempt to rein in or challenge the clients’ abusive behavior at any point, and instead just pretend that the abuses aren’t even happening and then celebrate war criminals for their leadership and vision. To top it off, administration officials claim that the same war criminals they helping to arm to teeth are part of a coalition dedicated to protecting human rights. That’s certainly not a principled policy by any definition I recognize, and it doesn’t actually advance any U.S. interests, either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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