US foreign policy elite still blind to Saudi - US war crimes in Yemen

In 830 words, Ivo Daalder, president of the Chicago Council of Global Affairs, and James Lindsey, senior vice president at the Council of Foreign Relations, fail to utter what the Saudis and the US are doing in Yemen; committing war crimes. Their op ed 'How Trump should, but probably won't, confront Saudi Arabia' in Monday's Trib Perspective, agonizes over Trump's bromance with Saudi strongman Prince Mohammed bin Salman, which explains Trump's tepid response to the Saudi murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi August 2. Daalder and Lindsay's prescription for the Khashoggi murder and apparent cover up calls for a UN investigation of the murder, a suspension of arms sales till that investigation is completed, and last, the US ' to pressure Riyadh to end its indiscriminate bombing and brutal war in Yemen'.  Without context one might surmise the Saudi's criminal war against Yemen exits outside of direct US encouragement and massive support of US bombs, planes, midair refueling of Saudi bombers and critical intelligence. Those actions constitute war crimes since they're directly enabling criminal war that has killed over 15,000 civilians and inflicted cholera and starvation upon millions more. Daalder and Lindsey avoid the 'war crimes' tag because they, as well as the entire US foreign policy establishment, support the US proxy war the Saudis are fighting against Iran, the real target of the ongoing Saudi genocide in Yemen. By publishing the Daalder-Lindsay puff peace hinting around but not confronting US aggression against Yemen, the Trib buys into the fiction that the US is innocent of war crimes there which destroys every vestige of America's moral standing in the world.