A recent US House of Representatives’ resolution condemning US military assistance to Saudi Arabia in its war in Yemen has been a major shock to US armed forces and is a departure from an epoch of the House tamely going along with US administrations, says a former US diplomat.
The “sweeping very successful bi-partisan resolution” apparently had been building under the table for some time, said Michael Springmann, former US diplomat in Saudi Arabia, in an interview with Press TV.
Springmann said the Monday resolution was not the only piece of legislation in the works to curb US military activity under the pretext of fighting terrorism, but that other US lawmakers such as Eliot Engel, ranking minority member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, want to end a 2001 authorization that allows US presidents to deploy armed forces against those responsible for the September 11 attacks and any associated forces.
“He [Eliot Engel] wants…