BREAKING: U.S.-backed forces in Yemen rout U.S.-backed forces in Yemen

U.S.-backed forces in Yemen attacked U.S.-backed forces in Yemen. What was the role of the U.S. in the attack?
Ask HASC Chair Adam Smith to investigate
Urge Pelosi to end the war

I hope you saw the important news over the weekend that U.S.-backed forces in Aden, the former and possibly future capital of South Yemen, routed U.S.-backed forces in Aden, the former and possibly future capital of South Yemen.

More specifically, South Yemen [re-]independence activists of the Southern Transitional Council, backed by purported U.S. “ally” the United Arab Emirates, routed forces loyal to the purported “government” of Yemen recognized by purported U.S. “ally” Saudi Arabia. Then the U.S.-armed and “trained” Saudi “air force” bombed Aden and threatened to bomb Aden more if the U.S.-backed forces associated with the UAE didn’t withdraw from Aden in favor of the “legitimate” U.S.-backed forces that had occupied Aden previously.

Got it?

This raises several questions.

First: what more can happen now to illustrate how spectacularly stupid, evil and corrupt this whole war has been since the Barack Obama-Joe Biden Administration unconstitutionally started it without Congressional authorization in March 2015?


Second: what exactly was the role of the Pentagon, the CIA, and the State Department in helping the Saudi regime bomb forces in Aden that are opposed to Al Qaeda? Congress never authorized that, did they? Surely these forces “associated” with supposed U.S. “ally” the Emiratis couldn’t possibly be on the double-secret classified list of “associated forces” to Al Qaeda that the Trump Administration claims it has Congressional authorization under the 2001 AUMF to bomb, could they?

Third: these South Yemen independence activists claim that if the Pentagon, the CIA and the State Department would just leave them alone in South Yemen, they’d have better ability to deal with the problem of Al Qaeda in South Yemen than the Pentagon, the CIA, and the State Department policies. It seems like an arrogant claim, doesn’t it? How could these South Yemenis possibly know more about dealing with the problem of Al Qaeda in South Yemen than the Smart and Serious People in the Pentagon, the CIA, and the State Department?

On the other hand: these people live in South Yemen, they were born in South Yemen, they grew up in South Yemen. Would it kill us to hear them out when they say they have a better idea about how to deal with Al Qaeda in South Yemen than the Pentagon, the CIA, and the State Department, whose policies have apparently been captured by the Saudi regime?


Here’s an idea for Making America Great Again by getting more use out of our U.S. tax dollars. There’s a committee in the House called the House Armed Services Committee [“HASC.”] The staffers of this committee are paid with our tax dollars to investigate questions like this [this used to be called “oversight.”] Why don’t we ask their boss, Adam Smith of Seattle, the chair of the House Armed Services Committee, to direct the committee staff to look into these questions and report back to us?

Share my tweet to Adam Smith and HASC Democrats, urging them to investigate the U.S. role in the U.S.-assisted Saudi bombing of U.S.-backed forces in Aden.
Tell Nancy Pelosi to shut down U.S. participation in the Saudi war in Yemen in the “veto proof” bill that “funds the troops” in August. 

Thanks for all you do to help mitigate the corruption and evil of U.S. foreign policy,

Robert Naiman
Just Foreign Policy

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