Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Mike Pompeo removes any doubt about the purpose of the administration’s Iran policy of regime change in all but name:U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said that “the sanctions on Iran have an ultimate...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.The Washington Post reminds us how the Saudi coalition war on Yemen helps Al Qaeda:Last year, the Trump administration imposed sanctions on a powerful Yemeni Islamist warlord, accusing him of being a “prominent military...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Micah Zenko takes a closer look at Mattis’ tenure as Secretary of Defense and finds lots to criticize:In October and December, Mattis claimed that the United States was providing in-air refueling to the Saudi-led...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.The Los Angeles Times reports on the harm that sanctions on Syria do to civilians there:The result, said Damascus-based businessman Naji Adeeb, is that legitimate business owners are being punished while close...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.The Wall Street Journal and other outlets are reporting that the U.S. is preparing to withdraw its forces from Syria:The U.S. military is preparing to withdraw its forces from Syria, people familiar with the matter said...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.The Guardian published three accounts from Yemeni aid workers working with the Norwegian Refugee Council about their experience of the war and the humanitarian crisis. This comes from Marwan Al-Sabri, a 32-year old...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.A State Department official restated that the administration very much wants to continue backing the Saudi coalition war on Yemen:“There are pressures in our system … to either withdraw from the conflict or...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Tony Badran takes another crack at justifyingTrump’s subservience to Saudi Arabia. Inevitably, this means telling lots of lies about Iran and Yemen:The lead paragraph of Trump’s statement identifies Iran’s...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.A forthcoming documentary accuses the Saudi and Emirati governments of passing weapons purchased from the U.S., Britain, and other Western governments to militias in Yemen in violation of the agreements governing those...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.The Senate didn’t go for Pompeo and Mattis’ sales pitch for the war on Yemen on Wednesday. That’s because it was filled with dishonest nonsense like this:Iran’s regime has no interest in easing Yemeni suffering; the...
