Al-Monitor's Yemen 'Factbox': The War on Terror, Reloaded
Al-Monitor's 'Factbox' on Yemen highlights the Houthis, Saudi Arabia, and the 'internationally recognized government,' painting a picture of complex regional conflict. What's missing, you ask? Oh, just the inconvenient detail that the US, under both Obama and Trump, funneled billions in weapons to Saudi Arabia. The 'coalition' that conducted over 25,000 airstrikes between 2015 and 2021, according
to the Yemen Data Project, used those very weapons to create one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. US aid has fueled this war, not merely observed it. So, when outlets now frame Houthi actions in the Red Sea as unprovoked aggression, without acknowledging the years of US-backed carnage they endured, one might wonder if journalistic memory is suddenly selective. How many 'factboxes' will
conveniently forget who armed the aggressors when a proxy war becomes 'our' problem?