By Ron Paul
September 17, 2019 "Information
Clearing House" -
The recent attacks on Saudi
oil facilities by Yemeni Houthi
forces demonstrate once again
that an aggressive foreign
policy often brings unintended
consequences and can result in
blowback. In 2015 Saudi Arabia
attacked its neighbor, Yemen,
because a coup in that country
ousted the Saudi-backed
dictator. Four years later Yemen
is in ruins, with nearly 100,000
Yemenis killed and millions more
facing death by starvation. It
has been rightly called the
worst humanitarian catastrophe
on the planet.
But rich and powerful Saudi
Arabia did not defeat Yemen. In
fact, the Saudis last month
asked the Trump Administration
to help facilitate talks with
the Houthis in hopes that the
war, which has cost Saudi Arabia
tens of billions of dollars,
could finally end without Saudi
crown prince Mohammad bin Salman
losing too much face. Washington
admitted earlier this month that
those talks had begun.
The surprise Houthi attack on
Saturday disrupted half of Saudi
Arabia’s oil and gas production
and shocked Washington.
Predictably, however, the
neocons are using the attack to
call for war with Iran!
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Sen. Lindsay Graham, one of
the few people in Washington who
makes John Bolton look like a
dove, Tweeted yesterday that,
“It is now time for the US to
put on the table an attack on
Iranian oil refineries…” Graham
is the perfect embodiment of the
saying, “when all you have is a
hammer, everything looks like a
nail.” No matter what the
problem, for Graham the solution
is war.
Likewise, Secretary of State
Mike Pompeo – who is supposed to
represent US diplomacy – jumped
to blame Iran for the attack on
Saudi Arabia, Tweeting that,
“Iran has now launched an
unprecedented attack on the
world’s energy supply.” Of
course, he provided no evidence
even as the Houthis themselves
took responsibility for the
bombing.
What is remarkable is that all
of Washington’s warmongers are
ready for war over what is
actually a retaliatory strike by
a country that is the victim of
Saudi aggression, not the
aggressor itself. Yemen did not
attack Saudi Arabia in 2015. It
was the other way around. If you
start a war and the other
country fights back, you should
not be entitled to complain
about how unfair the whole thing
is.
The establishment reaction to
the Yemeni oilfield strike
reminds me of a hearing in the
House Foreign Affairs Committee
just before the US launched the
2003 Iraq war. As I was arguing
against the authorization for
that war, I pointed out that
Iraq had never attacked the
United States. One of my
colleagues stopped me in
mid-sentence, saying, “let me
remind the gentleman that the
Iraqis have been shooting at our
planes for years.” True, but
those planes were bombing Iraq!
The neocons want a US war on
Iran at any cost. They may feel
temporarily at a disadvantage
with the departure of their ally
in the Trump Administration,
John Bolton. However, the sad
truth is that there are plenty
more John Boltons in the
Administration. And they have
allies in the Lindsay Grahams in
Congress.
Yemen has demonstrated that it
can fight back against Saudi
aggression. The only sensible
way forward is for a rapid end
to this four-year travesty, and
the Saudis would be wise to wake
up to the mess they’ve created
for themselves. Whatever the
case, US participation in Saudi
Arabia’s war on Yemen must end
immediately and neocon lies
about Iran’s role in the war
must be refuted and resisted.
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==See Also==
Credibility Crisis: No One Believes Iran Attacked Saudi Arabia
Lest we forget: Trump said: “Saudi Arabia should be paying the United States many billions of dollars for our defense of them. Without us, gone!”
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