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Re:Yemen's cholera outbreak now the worst in history as mill... by nowarninglabel on Thursday October 12, 2017 @12:45PM (#15459293)
You could say that, but you'd be ignoring the fact that the Yemeni civil war is a proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia, and that the U.S. is the one backing, funding, and selling arms to Saudi Arabia to use in the war. It is also providing ongoing logistical support.
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Re:Yemen's cholera outbreak now the worst in history as mill... by dsabanin on Thursday October 12, 2017 @08:31PM (#15462497)
How would Iran fighting Saudi Arabia be any better for Yemen without US involvement?
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Re:Yemen's cholera outbreak now the worst in history as mill... by navigator01 on Thursday October 12, 2017 @12:51PM (#15459336)
Yes Iran and Saudi Arabia are also exacerbating the conflict. The US has been providing support to Saudi long before the Yemen war began.
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Re:Yemen's cholera outbreak now the worst in history as mill... by lostlogin on Thursday October 12, 2017 @02:42PM (#15460210)
One does wonder what Saudi Arabia would have to do before it lost the support of the US.
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Re:Yemen's cholera outbreak now the worst in history as mill... by stevenwoo on Thursday October 12, 2017 @03:01PM (#15460389)
They can send the majority of the 9/11 attackers to the US and the US did nothing to Saudi Arabia, so of course our government is now more friendly with Saudi Arabia than any other country on earth. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saudi/analyses...
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Re:Yemen's cholera outbreak now the worst in history as mill... by navigator01 on Thursday October 12, 2017 @06:07PM (#15461690)
Ah yes, let's pull support from one of the most stable nations in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia has their hands in some bad stuff but they are far preferable to ISIS or a prolonged civil war.
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Re:Yemen's cholera outbreak now the worst in history as mill... by lostlogin on Friday October 13, 2017 @05:09AM (#15464126)
I don’t think ‘stable’ has the same meaning for me as it does for you.
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Re:Yemen's cholera outbreak now the worst in history as mill... by navigator01 on Friday October 13, 2017 @09:50AM (#15465614)
Maybe you aren't using the accepted definition of stable? What fills the void when nations in the Middle East fall is chaos.
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Re:Yemen's cholera outbreak now the worst in history as mill... by lostlogin on Friday October 13, 2017 @02:03PM (#15467921)
Below is the first google hit I get for “Saudi Arabia Politics”. They fund terrorism, attack allies, export Wahhabism, oppress, torture and kill political dissent, exclude women from everything and that’s just just scratching the surface. Why do you think Saudi Arabia is stable? Condemning them and pulling them into line doesn’t mean they become a failed state. Even just stopping exporting billions of dollars of arms to them would be a start.

www.forbes.com/sites/dougbandow/2017/06/24/with-new-crown-prince-saudi-arabia-doubles-down-on-political-repression-and-regional-aggression/amp/

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Re:Yemen's cholera outbreak now the worst in history as mill... by foobarian on Thursday October 12, 2017 @03:02PM (#15460404)
Simple: run out of oil.
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