L.A. Times: U.S. trying to restrain Saudi Arabia on deadly Yemen airstrikes
Top Obama administration officials have failed for several days to persuade Saudi Arabia’s government to limit the scope of its airstrikes on cities and towns in Yemen, a campaign that authorities said killed nearly 50 people Monday in Sana, the capital.
The U.S. effort to restrain the Saudi attacks came as the Pentagon moved the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt and a guided-missile destroyer into waters off Yemen. In all, nine U.S. warships are patrolling near strategic shipping lanes in the Gulf of Aden and the southern Arabian Sea.
Officials said the growing armada is meant, in part, to deter Iran from shipping weapons and other supplies to the Houthi rebels and their allies battling remnants of the central government for control of Yemen, the Arab world’s poorest nation.
WNU Editor: It appears that the U.S. is not at all enthusiastic with Saudi war plans on Yemen, and are making their objections very clear and in the public. The Saudis in turn appear to not care.
2 comments:
Between the Saudi's and the Israeli's , the US has always been The Bitch.
When has the U.S. cared about the Saudis preaching Wahabism in the prisons and elsewhere?
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