Trump administration to end refueling for Saudi coalition aircraft in Yemen

By artappraiser on Fri, 11/09/2018 - 10:12pm |

SCOOP: Trump administration to end refueling for Saudi coalition aircraft in Yemen, halting the most tangible and controversial aspect of U.S. support for Riyadh’s 3-year war. Latest by me and @missy_ryan https://t.co/SbPVMoFxXW
— John Hudson (@John_Hudson) November 9, 2018

URL:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-administration-to-end-refueling-for-saudi-coalition-aircraft-in-yemen/2018/11/09/d08ff6c3-babd-4958-bcca-cdb1caa9d5b4_story.html?utm_term=.a5e4dbdd8865

2009 reads

Comments

“This marks the first time that the United States has taken a concrete measure to rein in the Saudi war effort,” said Bruce Riedel. “Two administrations have basically given the Saudis a blank check to do whatever they wanted.”
— John Hudson (@John_Hudson) November 9, 2018

by artappraiser on Fri, 11/09/2018 - 10:14pm

Bernie says:

This is a positive step. US participation is unauthorized, unconstitutional and must end completely. I will soon bring SJ Res 54 back to the floor, so the Senate can end US participation in the Yemen war as a matter of law, not simply as a matter of the president’s discretion. https://t.co/O86N74b6ME
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) November 9, 2018

by artappraiser on Fri, 11/09/2018 - 11:38pm

The Saudis have escalated; they have intensified the war,” said Bruce Riedel, an expert on #SaudiArabia at the Brookings Institution #Yemen https://t.co/o9UeS9CCmf
— Javier Espinosa (@javierespinosa2) November 10, 2018

by artappraiser on Sat, 11/10/2018 - 9:53pm

Read the fine print... just shuffling the war effort over to a new yet-to-be-disclosed org, kind of how they "shut down" but moved around various war-against-terror overreaches over the years.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/pentagon-launched-new-classified-operation-su...

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 11/11/2018 - 7:48pm

thanks. I figured thare had to be something coming soon. Especially as everyone is making such a big deal about it, it seemed so like the were falling for old fashioned kind of spin, Pentagon spin. Wonder if Bernie will mention this now.

by artappraiser on Mon, 11/12/2018 - 4:51am

Trump administration to end refueling for Saudi coalition aircraft in Yemen

Comments

Sections

Bloggers