Senate defies Trump- condemns bin Salman and Trump's support for Saudi war on Yemen.

[Jack]

I like Wahhabis. What do yo mean "ultraconservative".. You ever lived around them.. or are you a newly minted internet expert?

You told me you were a WASP (Wahhabi Arab Sunni Person) and I believe it.

[Jarod]

The turn has begun

[Phantasmal]

Sen. Tom Cotton Is Trying to Cripple a Bill to End U.S. Support for the War in Yemen
https://theintercept.com/2018/12/13/...-saudi-arabia/

Cotton is evil.

[Phantasmal]

The majority of americans are not represented in this political system though, so there's that. Time and time again this is the case. Watch how quickly the Dems move away from single payers once they actually have some power to do something for example.

We’ve seen it time and again in our lifetimes.

[anatta]

I'm not a prophet, Jack... Yemen has been flooded with all kinds of jihadis from AQ to Boko Haram, to al Shabaaz to al Houthis. That's what the Saudis have coped with.

good grief. a terrorists stew

[moon]

The Senate’s Yemen Vote Proves a More Democratic Foreign Policy Is Possible

Public outrage over US-Saudi relations may put an end to war—and serve as an important lesson for progressives.

https://www.thenation.com/article/th...y-is-possible/


On Thursday, for the first time in the 45-year history of the War Powers Act, senators passed a resolution that would end a war—in this case, United States involvement in the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen.

The catalyst for the resolution had little to do with the war itself. In March, senators had voted 55-44 against bringing the same resolution to the floor. But then, in November, the Saudis murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside their Istanbul consulate. After Khashoggi’s death saturated the news, the outrage boiled up into Washington’s political class.

Even the most hawkish members of the establishment felt personally betrayed by their Saudi partners.

Betrayed ? Betrayed and sickened at the depth of depravity to which the House of Saud will descend - and still receive the support of the president of the United States of America.