{"id":378547,"date":"2018-09-25T16:28:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T15:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/destroying-yemen-as-humanely-as-possible\/"},"modified":"2018-09-25T16:28:06","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T15:28:06","slug":"destroying-yemen-as-humanely-as-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/destroying-yemen-as-humanely-as-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"Destroying Yemen as Humanely as Possible"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo Source Felton Davis | CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

What a relief to learn that even though Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are bombing the crap out of Yemen, they are doing so humanely.\u00a0 On September 12, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, pursuant to the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (\u201cNDAA\u201d), certified<\/a> that Saudi Arabia and the UAE are \u201cundertaking demonstrable actions to reduce the risk of harm to civilians and civilian infrastructure\u201d in their war on Houthi rebels in Yemen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This was demonstrable horseshit.\u00a0 The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights released a report on Yemen at the end of August.\u00a0 Kamel Jendoubi<\/a>, chairperson of the Group of International and Regional Eminent Experts on Yemen which authored the report, stated: \u201cThere is little evidence of any attempt by parties to the conflict to minimize civilian casualties.\u201d\u00a0 This puts the lie to Secretary of Defense James Mattis\u2019 claim that the US military presence in Yemen helps to restrain the Saudis.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, Pompeo had to make the certification.\u00a0Not to do so would mean the Trump Administration could not continue to assist the Saudi-led war effort.\u00a0 Those were the terms Congress had set in Section 1290 of the NDAA.\u00a0 Pompeo\u2019s action would become understandable very shortly.<\/p>\n

On September 20, the Wall Street Journal<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>disclosed that Secretary Pompeo had decided to bless the Saudi coalition\u2019s conduct after the State Department\u2019s Bureau…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Photo Source Felton Davis | CC BY 2.0 What a relief to learn that even though Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are bombing the crap out of Yemen, they are doing so humanely.\u00a0 On September 12, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, pursuant to the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-378547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}