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Saturday, September 7th, 2019

How the U.S. Shattered the Middle East

Author:     Danny Sjursen
Source:     truthdig
Publication Date:     September 4, 2019
 Link: How the U.S. Shattered the Middle East
Stephan:   You and I through our tax dollars  have spent over a trillion dollars, and watched the destruction of almost half a dozen countries in the middle east in the endless wars begun by Jr. Bush. And what do we have to show for all the death, destruction, injury, and almost incomprehensible expenditure of money? Why, we have nothing to show for it, as this report lays out. You have to ask yourself: Who are the real terrorists here?

The guided missile destroyer USS Porter conducts strike operations against a target in Syria while in the Mediterranean Sea in April 2017.
Credit: Petty Officer 3rd Class Ford Williams / U.S. Navy

Yemen is a nightmare, a catastrophe, a mess—and the United States is highly complicit in the whole disaster. Refueling Saudi aircraft in-flight, providing targeting intelligence to the kingdom and selling the requisite bombs that have been dropped for years now on Yemeni civilians places the 100,000-plus deaths, millions of refugees, and (still) starving children squarely on the American conscience. If, that is, Washington can still claim to have a conscience.

The back story in Yemen, already the Arab world’s poorest country, is relevant. Briefly, the cataclysm went something like this: Protests against the U.S.-backed dictator during the Arab Spring broke out in 2011. After a bit, an indecisive and hesitant President Obama called for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down. A Saudi-backed transitional government took over but governed (surprise, surprise) poorly. Then, from 2014 to 2015, a vaguely Shiite militia from Yemen’s north swarmed southward […]

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2 Comments

  1. John Gabriel Otvos on Saturday, September 7, 2019 at 6:50 am

    AmeriKa still has an empire, yeah it’s tottering and like all the ones in the past [a 4-letter word], it too will fall, but, not before taking down everyone else. Raytheon et all get paid per bomb. That’s what keeps the machine oiled. We watch it all happenin’ on our HD big screens with multi-channel sound, all encrusted in a rock ‘n roll soundtrack. We are entertaining ourselves to death.

  2. Rev. Dean on Saturday, September 7, 2019 at 11:42 am

    Noam Chomsky (one of the world’s most intelligent philosophers) said that the USA is the greatest threat to peace in the world. He does mean that we are the world’s worst terrorists, and I agree with him.