Tag: Saudi Arabia

"The Senate will be able, for the first time, to debate and vote on a check on Trump's war-making in Yemen"

“This Senate vote should mark the beginning of the end of American complicity in the world’s largest humanitarian crisis.”

So there is more than a little poetic justice – or is it irony? – in General Abizaid’s proposed posting to Riyadh.

The move ensured that Republicans can avoid voting on the bill – a vote in which they would have to choose between standing up against a war that has killed more than 15,000 civilians or angering President Donald Trump.

These attacks on sovereign nations are, without question, illegal, unjustifiable and a stain on America’s reputation. Is that who we are?

Stand aside, Trump. An even more insular, autocratic, certainly richer KING elbowed you aside – as a world-class liar.

What our presidents, with their “kill lists,” are doing is destroying what little democracy and moral standing we have left in this country.

Credible allegations of Jamal Khashoggi's brutal murder by the Saudi government and ongoing war crimes in Yemen should be the final straws in allowing the powerful Gulf monarchy to claim the U.S. as a friend and partner, says senator.

While the position that the United States and its allies take will be important, especially if they impose sanctions, the case is perhaps more interesting for what it says about the region’s growing rivalries.

Saudi Arabia's apparent assassination of Jamal Khashoggi might have taken inspiration from Russia and North Korea – or Israel and the United States.