National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan announced on Thursday that Washington would terminate its offensive military support to the Saudi-led coalition fighting Houthi rebels in Yemen. The choice to intervene in Yemen’s civil war occurred on President Barack Obama’s watch after very little interagency debate. A conflict that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman claimed would be over in a few weeks has instead dragged on for years. The Houthis will and, Iranian enabled, capability to resist the Saudi air campaign was consistently underestimated. With every passing month, more evidence of Saudi war crimes emerged, making U.S. assistance to Riyadh even tougher to justify.
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