It's US, Tribune, not getting message on starving Yemenis

The Tribune's editorial 'Are the Saudis getting the message: Stop starving civilians' exemplifies everything wrong with American foreign policy ...and American journalism. The Editorial Board, lamenting the tens of thousands dead, a million suffering cholera and millions more on the brink of starvation in Yemen, blames it all on Saudi Arabia. Not a pixel posted how the US enables these crimes against humanity with our intelligence, mid air refueling of Saudi death planes and, of course, the tens of billions in sales of America's most destructive WCD (Weapons of Civilian Destruction). The Board knows full well US complicity in Saudi war crimes but erases it from the Yemen humanitarian catastrophe narrative . To so delicately urge Trump to do more to get its best munitions customer to ease up on the Yemenis is profoundly immoral and ludicrous. The US could stop the slaughter in a heartbeat by ending all criminal military support and arms sales to Saudi Arabia. The Tribune editorial board is not alone. Every major news outlet in America depending on access to the government for news, the currency of its existence, is equally complicit in this senseless and totally unnecessary human tragedy. That is why Ike didn't get it quite right when he warned us, on January 17, 1961, about the pernicious Military-Industrial Complex. He should have said, "Beware the Military-Industrial-Media Complex."