Trib steps up to plate on Yemen...and wiffs

After 27 months it's a relief the Trib (June 23 editorial) has finally addressed the world's worst humanitarian crisis: the Gulf States' intervention in the Yemen civil war that has left fifty thousand dead from starvation, a million suffering cholera, and millions more at risk from a cruel blockade of food and medicine. But it should not take seven paragraphs for the Trib to reveal the ugly truth of this man made catastrophe: the US is an active participant with its "intelligence, munitions and aerial refueling for Saudi and UAE fighter jets". But to say "The US is not an innocent bystander in the crisis" works to paper over the magnitude of our complicity in what most certainly are war crimes against the innocent Yemeni people. Even with US help the Gulf States cannot militarily defeat the Shi'ite rebels who've captured a swathe of Yemen. Their new strategy rests on one grotesque tactic, starvation, with US compliance, if not encouragement. Why is the US doing this? Simple. It's more than a proxy war between the Gulf States and Iran. It's also a US proxy war against Iran, in which the millions of hapless Yemenis are simply 'collateral damage.' The Trib's plea for US to use its "sway" to "make the case for a halt to the offensive (blockade) on Hodeida" (remaining Yemen supply port) is laughable. The US can end Gulf State war crimes in Yemen by immediately ending all military support. In so doing the US will also end its war crimes there as well.