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by relyio 2800 days ago
>Saudi government is bombing the hell of out kids in Yemen with bombs that have the US flag painted on em

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War#Tab...

I don't want to single out the US or give the impression that I hate it. I actually love that country. No doubt one of the best countries in the world despite everything.

But I don't think SA is particularly worse than any other regional/global powerful country on earth wrt. foreign policy. Why should that prompt the US (or any other security council country for that matter) to re-evaluate their relationship when they commit the same, if not worse, crimes.

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All the casualties of the Iraq War (measure over a decade and a half) are just a drop in the bucket compared to number of people who have been killed or the number of children who have died of hunger in Yemen over a few years. Casualties in Yemen are reaching a half million and the number of deaths have not yet been tallied correctly by the UN due to the blockade
Because it's one thing to do shitty things for your own self interested reasons...

and somewhere along a scale it becomes another to do shitty things for somebody else's twisted reasons.

I realize it's all intertwined and the House of Saud and the US are allies for reasons, but at some point it not only looks bad, I wonder if the Saudis will lose respect for the US?