Post Bulletin: Stop US Support for Atrocities in Yemen

 We need a world free of war and the threat of war for our own survival, says an article written by Rich Van Dellen on American news website.

Current news is centered on the threat of war with Russia over Ukraine, the Post Bulletin’s article added. However, the US is complicit in another war: the current Saudi-led war and air and naval blockade in Yemen.

The writer pointed out that Human Rights Watch has called Yemen “the largest humanitarian crisis in the world,” with two-thirds of Yemen’s people facing food insecurity. The UN stated 2.3 million Yemeni children have acute malnutrition and 400,000 could die of starvation.

The article referred to US President Biden’s statement on the war in Yemen on Feb. 4 of last year, which he said that his country would no longer provide support for the Saudi- and UAE-led coalition’s “offensive” military campaign in Yemen and restore humanitarian aid to all parts of Yemen.

Yet the US continues to provide critical military aid, logistical support, maintenance and spare parts for Saudi warplanes; the same warplanes that recently killed nearly 90 Yemeni civilians, wounded over 200 more, and disabled Yemen’s internet for four days.

Congress, in 2019 with bipartisan support, passed a War Powers Resolution that would terminate military involvement unauthorized by Congress. President Trump vetoed it.

“I would urge Reps. Hagedorn and Craig and Senators Klobuchar and Smith to support another War Powers Resolution that would require Congressional approval of our military involvement,” the writer said. “Stopping US support could go a long way toward ending the war and blockade. Then we could provide humanitarian aid to Yemen.”