June 21, 2017
Obama's Cholera Epidemic in Yemen
Timothy Birdnow
According to Pravda there have been over 101.820 suspected cases of CHOLERA in Yemen this year.
From the article:
"The war in Yemen has had a catastrophic effect on the population, with the virtual collapse of the healthcare system. 14.5 million people no longer have regular access to basic sanitation or clean water sources, health and sanitation workers have been unpaid for eight months and medical supplies are not entering the country at a rate which meets needs.
Dr. Meritxell Relano, the Representative of UNICEF in Yemen, says that "The cholera outbreak is making a bad situation for children drastically worse. Many of the children who have died from the disease were also acutely malnourished."
End excerpt.
Strange how the American media has nothing to say about this; they are too busy crying about the results of the last election.
The degrading of Yemen happend on Barack Obama's watch, so don't expect this to be newsworthy to the MSM.
And it WAS Obama's policy. From the Atlantic:
"At times, the Obama administration’s support for the Saudis has thrown diplomatic efforts to end the war into confusion. In August, Secretary of State John Kerry flew to Jeddah to meet with officials from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Britain, and the United Nations. Some Yemenis were cautiously optimistic that Kerry—who says the war in Yemen does not have a military solution—would use his leverage with Riyadh to push for an easing of airstrikes. Instead, he left them with a vague "roadmap†for peace that offered the Houthis certain concessions, angering some in Riyadh, but did little to pressure the Saudis to implement the plan. Within 24 hours, the Saudi-led coalition had intensified its aerial campaign, while its allies on the ground launched a renewed offensive on the Houthi-controlled northwest of the country. The Houthis responded by escalating their own attacks over the border into the kingdom."
[...]
"In Yemen, where Washington has outsized influence due to its political and military relationship with Gulf nations, the White House is unlikely to take the kind of gamble Kerry recently took on Syria: a ceasefire between the Russian and Iranian-backed Bashar al-Assad and the rebels supported by the United States and its regional allies. That deal now lies in tatters, in the wake of the U.S. bombing of Assad’s forces and a apparent Russian air strikes against a UN-coordinated aid convoy. It has severely diminished hopes for any similar attempt to end the conflict in Yemen.
Even if Yemen cannot be solved via diplomatic miracle, it is puzzling that Obama’s apparent distaste for the kingdom has had remarkably little influence. A critic of the U.S.-Saudi alliance as a senator, the president’s White House has had a troubled relationship with the absolute monarchy since the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011—which saw a number of Saudi allies, including Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak, ousted from power—and more so since the Iranian nuclear deal. The once-improbable now seems imminent: unless the Obama administration ends refueling and logistical support for the Saudis, it appears all but certain to hand off the war in Yemen to his successor."
end excerpts.
Liberal U.S. News actually called the Obama policy lawless in a 2016 article:
"
Yemen is the much-ignored third (or maybe fifth?) wheel of the American imbroglio in the Middle East, but recent days have seen a marked escalation of hostilities in the impoverished country, and with it, an escalation of U.S. entanglement. What has not escalated is the Obama administration's authority to wage this imprudent war, which is by no possible stretch of legal imagination permitted by the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force the White House claims as flimsy legal cover for its other undeclared and endless conflicts.
The newest development of American intervention is a series of skirmishes between Shiite Houthi rebels (the militants the Sunni Saudi-led and U.S.-supported coalition opposes) and two U.S. Navy Destroyers. It began recently when the rebels fired two missiles in an American ship's direction but missed. In response, the Destroyer sent back three missiles and one decoy of its own. Then, after militants launched an additional failed missile, another U.S. Navy Destroyer launched three Tomahawk missiles, taking out three coastal radar sites used by Houthi forces to direct their strikes.
These missiles mark the first time the United States has directly intervened in Yemen's Saudi-manipulated civil war. Previously, all U.S. intervention came in the form of assistance to Saudi coalition troops. Those forces are still active with plenty of strikes of their own. In fact, Sunday's exchange of missiles came close on the heels a Saudi-led strike that killed more than 140 people and injured at least 525 more on Saturday when it made a direct hit on a funeral. "The place has been turned into a lake of blood," said one rescue worker on the scene."
End excerpt.
So, Obama's interventionist and incompetent policies has led to a hundred thousand cases of cholera.
According to Pravda there have been over 101.820 suspected cases of CHOLERA in Yemen this year.
From the article:
"The war in Yemen has had a catastrophic effect on the population, with the virtual collapse of the healthcare system. 14.5 million people no longer have regular access to basic sanitation or clean water sources, health and sanitation workers have been unpaid for eight months and medical supplies are not entering the country at a rate which meets needs.
Dr. Meritxell Relano, the Representative of UNICEF in Yemen, says that "The cholera outbreak is making a bad situation for children drastically worse. Many of the children who have died from the disease were also acutely malnourished."
End excerpt.
Strange how the American media has nothing to say about this; they are too busy crying about the results of the last election.
The degrading of Yemen happend on Barack Obama's watch, so don't expect this to be newsworthy to the MSM.
And it WAS Obama's policy. From the Atlantic:
"At times, the Obama administration’s support for the Saudis has thrown diplomatic efforts to end the war into confusion. In August, Secretary of State John Kerry flew to Jeddah to meet with officials from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Britain, and the United Nations. Some Yemenis were cautiously optimistic that Kerry—who says the war in Yemen does not have a military solution—would use his leverage with Riyadh to push for an easing of airstrikes. Instead, he left them with a vague "roadmap†for peace that offered the Houthis certain concessions, angering some in Riyadh, but did little to pressure the Saudis to implement the plan. Within 24 hours, the Saudi-led coalition had intensified its aerial campaign, while its allies on the ground launched a renewed offensive on the Houthi-controlled northwest of the country. The Houthis responded by escalating their own attacks over the border into the kingdom."
[...]
"In Yemen, where Washington has outsized influence due to its political and military relationship with Gulf nations, the White House is unlikely to take the kind of gamble Kerry recently took on Syria: a ceasefire between the Russian and Iranian-backed Bashar al-Assad and the rebels supported by the United States and its regional allies. That deal now lies in tatters, in the wake of the U.S. bombing of Assad’s forces and a apparent Russian air strikes against a UN-coordinated aid convoy. It has severely diminished hopes for any similar attempt to end the conflict in Yemen.
Even if Yemen cannot be solved via diplomatic miracle, it is puzzling that Obama’s apparent distaste for the kingdom has had remarkably little influence. A critic of the U.S.-Saudi alliance as a senator, the president’s White House has had a troubled relationship with the absolute monarchy since the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011—which saw a number of Saudi allies, including Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak, ousted from power—and more so since the Iranian nuclear deal. The once-improbable now seems imminent: unless the Obama administration ends refueling and logistical support for the Saudis, it appears all but certain to hand off the war in Yemen to his successor."
end excerpts.
Liberal U.S. News actually called the Obama policy lawless in a 2016 article:
"
Yemen is the much-ignored third (or maybe fifth?) wheel of the American imbroglio in the Middle East, but recent days have seen a marked escalation of hostilities in the impoverished country, and with it, an escalation of U.S. entanglement. What has not escalated is the Obama administration's authority to wage this imprudent war, which is by no possible stretch of legal imagination permitted by the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force the White House claims as flimsy legal cover for its other undeclared and endless conflicts.
The newest development of American intervention is a series of skirmishes between Shiite Houthi rebels (the militants the Sunni Saudi-led and U.S.-supported coalition opposes) and two U.S. Navy Destroyers. It began recently when the rebels fired two missiles in an American ship's direction but missed. In response, the Destroyer sent back three missiles and one decoy of its own. Then, after militants launched an additional failed missile, another U.S. Navy Destroyer launched three Tomahawk missiles, taking out three coastal radar sites used by Houthi forces to direct their strikes.
These missiles mark the first time the United States has directly intervened in Yemen's Saudi-manipulated civil war. Previously, all U.S. intervention came in the form of assistance to Saudi coalition troops. Those forces are still active with plenty of strikes of their own. In fact, Sunday's exchange of missiles came close on the heels a Saudi-led strike that killed more than 140 people and injured at least 525 more on Saturday when it made a direct hit on a funeral. "The place has been turned into a lake of blood," said one rescue worker on the scene."
End excerpt.
So, Obama's interventionist and incompetent policies has led to a hundred thousand cases of cholera.
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