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>Saudi government is bombing the hell of out kids in Yemen with bombs that have the US flag painted on em https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_
by relyio 8y ago
>Saudi government is bombing the hell of out kids in Yemen with bombs that have the US flag painted on em
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War#Tables https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War#Tab...
I don't want to single out the US or give the impression that I hate it. I actually love that country. No doubt one of the best countries in the world despite everything.
But I don't think SA is particularly worse than any other regional/global powerful country on earth wrt. foreign policy. Why should that prompt the US (or any other security council country for that matter) to re-evaluate their relationship when they commit the same, if not worse, crimes.
- jacobush 8y agoBecause it's one thing to do shitty things for your own self interested reasons... and somewhere along a scale it becomes another to do shitty things for somebody else's twisted reasons. I realize it's all intertwined and the House of Saud and the US are allies for reasons, but at some point it not only looks bad, I wonder if the Saudis will lose respect for the US?
- lenkite 8y agoAll the casualties of the Iraq War (measure over a decade and a half) are just a drop in the bucket compared to number of people who have been killed or the number of children who have died of hunger in Yemen over a few years. Casualties in Yemen are reaching a half million and the number of deaths have not yet been tallied correctly by the UN due to the blockade