Yemeni rebels strike Saudi airport before Pompeo visit

The ME is about to erupt.
Probably best that it happens now before everyone has nuclear weapons.

Not our business

“Rebel” and “cruise missle”. Does not compute.

The amount of coverage this will get is infinitely more than the Saudis destroying Yemen with money and weapons from the United States.

I thought the masters were in Russia?

Yea how did Houthi rebels get long range guided missiles?

Its just liberal ME policy. Feed and cloth the Yemenis so they can spend their money on rockets. Then get on the media and scream when the Saudis retaliate and bomb them.............

hmm sounds eerily familiar to palestine come to think of it, and that decades old policy has worked oh so well.

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Its just liberal ME policy. Feed and cloth the Yemenis so they can spend their money on rockets. Then get on the media and scream when the Saudis retaliate and bomb them.............

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This is poorly informed.

Yemen was historically split into North and South Yemen.

This reflected geography, and in turn, culture.

In 1990 north and south unified, becoming one country. But they’ve have split apart again on the old lines.

The people of North Yemen are fiver Shia, but their faith is closer to Sunni Islam than what the Persians practice.

They are very hard people. They love to drink, and to chew. Their passion in life is fighting. They’re good at it.

When there are no outsiders to fight, they fight each other.

The Saudis are backing the Sunni of South Yemen.

The Saudis are merchants, and they lack the fortitude for war, for suffering. So they’ve hired a number of other people to do the fighting for them.

They contract out service on weapon systems for the same reason. They don’t want to do the work themselves.

Flying is not beneath the Sauds though. And so they’ve conducted an aggressive bombing campaign, brutalizing the people of Yemen one JDAM at a time.

It’s just casual, purposeless, savagery.

They also, like many devout Sunni, believe that time began with Islam, and that pre Islamic history should be destroyed.

They’re doing a good job of erasing Yemen’s historical monuments.

The Iranians are supporting the Houthi, just to hurt the Saudis. They’ve transferred increasingly modern weapons, including these cruise missiles, as well as suicide drones. They appear to be sending them as parts kits, which the Houthi assemble.

The Saudis have no stomach for fighting. They will be forced to give up.

Saudis will keep paying troops from Africa or South America to do,there ground fighting.

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The Saudis are merchants, and they lack the fortitude for war, for suffering. So they’ve hired a number of other people to do the fighting for them. They contract out service on weapon systems for the same reason. They don’t want to do the work themselves.

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This is the Saudi way for about everything.

Frankly would like to see their oil dry up so they'd go back to being goat herders, which is about their ceiling without the petrodollars.