The War That U.S. Soldiers Are Fighting In But No One In America Hears About

No More Foreign Wars? Yet America Is Fighting In Yemen's Civil War -- Ryan Goodman, The Guardian

On Syria, Obama went to Congress over military action. But in Yemen, the US has joined a counter-insurgency without a word

No act of government calls for greater debate and deliberation than the decision to commit the country to war. The recent civil war in Syria sparked a national conversation in the United States about the direction of American foreign policy, and rightly so. But Syria was not the only civil war preoccupying the administration. While orchestrating the drawdown in Afghanistan and openly contemplating intervening in Syria, the president appears to have secretly inserted the United States in Yemen's civil war.

Today, US forces conduct operations alongside the Yemeni army as it battles a domestic insurgency. The troubling details of some of those operations were revealed Tuesday, in a major report by Human Rights Watch on the scope of US military strikes in Yemen. The picture that emerges is grim: the president is waging a secret war in Yemen, and it's time for him to come clean.

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My Comment: The initial groundwork for U.S. involvement in this conflict started only a few years ago. But today .... the US Congress is not going to get involved in debating what should be the legal boundaries for this conflict .... (they are probably being advised anyway because of oversight considerations) .... and the media has been completely silent. My prediction .... until U.S. soldiers/CIA officers are killed .... coverage of this conflict will continue to be under the radar.