U.S. Is Helping Saudis Wage a Vile War in Yemen

On March 25, the National Security Council in Washington announced that the United States would be joining the Gulf Cooperation Council in waging war in Yemen, the Middle East's poorest country. There was no declaration of war, nor any indication of congressional approval of the NSC action. The announcement followed the open secret that U.S. forces had been providing logistics and intelligence support for months before that to Saudi Arabia in waging a war that has perhaps even less reason for U.S. involvement than the other conflicts America is waging in the Middle East region. These include Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia and Syria. The ongoing civil war in Yemen includes a disparate group of elements, although it is basically an intra-Muslim war between Sunnis and Shiites, which