ABC News Discovers Saudi Arabia Can Bomb Yemen, Still Allies
ABC News reports that "Yemen separatists accuse Saudi Arabia of launching airstrikes," framing it as a fresh accusation. This selective memory erases the U.S.'s decade-long complicity in Saudi Arabia's devastating war in Yemen. The Biden administration, much like Trump's before it, approved billions in arms sales to the Saudis, including a $650 million air-to-air missile deal in 2021, directly
enabling the aerial bombardment that has killed tens of thousands of civilians and created one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. Where's the shock and horror then? We are consistently told that these 'allies' are vital for 'stability' – stability, it seems, that is best achieved through indiscriminately bombing one of the poorest nations on Earth. How many times will the media report on
these 'new' Saudi aggressions without mentioning the U.S. weapons and diplomatic cover that make them possible? It's almost as if the 'news' only starts when it's politically convenient to acknowledge the bombings, not when they started or who supplied the bombs. One might wonder if the concern is for Yemenis, or just for the narrative.