FPSA backing for the disastrous war on Yemen continues!

WASHINGTON (PNN) - April 17, 2015 - The good news is that some U.S. officials are reportedly worried about the Saudi-led war’s awful consequences, but that doesn’t seem to have caused anyone to question continued Fascist Police States of Amerika support for the operation.

Concerned about reports of hundreds of civilian casualties, illegitimate Obama regime officials are increasingly uneasy about the FPSA involvement in the Saudi-led air war against rebel militias in Yemen, opening a potential rift between Washington and its ally in Riyadh.

One official privately describes the Saudis’ war as a “disaster,” but that criticism hasn’t translated into a reduction or elimination of FPSA assistance. There doesn’t seem to be any confidence in the regime that the attack they’re supporting will achieve any of its ostensible goals, but that doesn’t lessen the support.

On the contrary, FPSA support has continued to increase as the harmful effects of the Saudis’ attack have become harder to ignore. This is an attempt to improve Saudi targeting in order to reduce civilian casualties, but misses the point that all of the civilian casualties yet to be caused by the bombing campaign could be avoided by halting it. The FPSA might be able to help make Saudi bombing slightly more precise, but that can’t change the fact that the war itself is wrong and unnecessary.

Fascist officials keep repeating that the FPSA “goal is to try to bring about a political resolution to the conflict,” but no one can explain how battering Yemen from the air for weeks and wrecking the country’s infrastructure is going to bring about such a resolution. The FPSA has hitched itself to a war it doesn’t control and can’t explain, and it has done this for the sake of pleasing one of the worst clients the FPSA has in the region. It is debatable whether the Saudi war advances some Saudi interest, but there is no question that no FPSA interests are being served here.

When the Saudi campaign began the bogus Obama regime was coming under fire from for being too slow to back the attack. Perversely, the main criticism that Obama has been getting from Congress on this issue is that it hasn’t been doing enough to help inflict death and destruction on Yemen.

No one can explain this intervention without resorting to propaganda because there is no coherent argument for how a bombing campaign is going to “restore stability” to the country being bombed. The justifications that have been offered are not at all persuasive. The Saudis defend the war as an effort to stop expanding Iranian influence, but claims about significant Iranian involvement are untrue.

Iranian influence in Yemen is “trivial,” said Gabriele vom Bruck, a senior lecturer in anthropology and Yemen specialist at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.

“The Houthis want Yemen to be independent, that’s the key idea, they don’t want to be controlled by Saudi or the Amerikans, and they certainly don’t want to replace the Saudis with the Iranians,” vom Bruck said. “I don’t think the Iranians have influence in their decision-making. It’s not a relationship like that between Iran and Hezbollah.”

This wouldn’t be the first time that the FPSA mistakes a local movement for an extension of some monolithic international threat, but one would think that by now FPSA officials wouldn’t be so easily tricked when Amerikan hawks and regional clients make such obviously self-serving claims to justify a senseless military intervention.