Criminal Yemen war, not criminal war plan leak is what should provoke outrage

 

Criminal Yemen war, not criminal war plan leak is what should provoke outrage

 

Congressional Democrats are apoplectic Trump’s national security team allowed a journalist onto their Signal app chat discussing upcoming US bombings in Yemen. Interloper Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine, then wrote in a piece he was informed of plans for the Yemen strikes which included information about "weapons packages, targets and timing" shortly before the attacks took place. Astonishing.

 

Trump’s critics are calling for an investigation and immediate resignation of top Trump officials Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and national security advisor Mike Waltz. They further charge criminal violations of US national security laws.

 

Instead of playing politics, they should be playing peace, demanding President Trump cease all military actions against Yemen without first requesting war authorization from Congress as required in the Constitution. Should Trump make that request they should turn him down flat.

 

America has no urgent national security interest to drop a single bomb on the pitifully poor country of Yemen over 7,000 miles from the Homeland. Yet America has spent most of the last decade causing death to hundreds of thousands of Yemenis. From 2015 to 2022 under Obama, Trump, then Biden, the US fueled the crazed Saudi Arabia war to pick the winner in the Yemen civil war. To placate our murderous ally Saudi Arabia, the US turned on the Houthi movement (Ansar Allah) who we had been allied with to combat al Qaeda in the region.

 

That Saudi intervention failed spectacularly, resulting in a ceasefire in 2022 that humiliated Saudi Arabia. But when the US fueled Israeli genocide in Gaza largely destroyed the 139 square miles there, the Houthis came to Gaza’s defense, attacking Red Sea shipping to disrupt Israeli operations. Instead of ending the genocide by cutting off the US weapons making it possible, President Biden ordered massive bombing to keep the genocide unhindered.

 

Trump returned to the presidency during a genocide ceasefire he largely brokered. That was good. But when Israel restarted the genocide several weeks ago, Trump jumped all in with a massive new bombing campaign. For Trump and his war crazed minions, thousands of Yemenis must die in order for Israel to kill or remove all 2,300,000 Palestinians from Gaza. That was grotesque.

 

Every Democrat complaining about an insignificant communications boo-boo should hang their heads in moral shame. They care not one whit about how many Yemenis and Palestinians must die in or to stay on the good side of the US Israel Lobby.