Saudi Arabia and GCC allies bombing Yemen

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Well this won't end well

[Ebsy]

I'm beginning to doubt the effectiveness of protracted airstrikes on terror targets.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

WAR

[moderatevoter]

Last week, Saudi Arabia asked Pakistan to deploy a military contingent to help defend the border with Yemen. Pakistan declined, hoping to stay out of the Iran-Saudi Arabia proxy war.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

WAR

WAR IS COMING!

[moderatevoter]

The ten countries in the Saudi-led coalition are:
Saudi Arabia
Kuwait
Qatar
United Arab Emirates
Bahrain
Jordan
Egypt
Sudan
Morocco
Pakistan

[Ebsy]

The ten countries in the Saudi-led coalition are:
Saudi Arabia
Kuwait
Qatar
United Arab Emirates
Bahrain
Jordan
Egypt
Sudan
Morocco
Pakistan

It's like a who's who of human rights abusers.

[BaconBacon96]

The proxy war engulfing the Middle East grows further.

[Mr. Morden]

Apparently Hadi has "fled Yemen by sea":

http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Report-Rebels-seize-Yemen-air-base-used-in-6157170.php

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[Likely Voter]

Saudi Arabia is not messing around

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http://news.yahoo.com/saudi-arabia-150-000-troops-yemen-operation-arabiya-041839905.html

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Ugh, just like in Syria, the US and Saudi Arabia side with Al Qaeda again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houthi_insurgency_in_Yemen

[Illuminati Blood Drinker]

Ugh, just like in Syria, the US and Saudi Arabia side with Al Qaeda again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houthi_insurgency_in_Yemen

Geopolitics 101: If Side A intervenes against Side B, who is fighting against Side C, that does not mean Side A has sided with Side C. They are simply attacking Side B, which may be of help to Side C, but doesn't mean actual support/alliance.

This claim has even less substance than the Syria thing, given nobody has cared about Yemen in the past 200 years.

[Antonio the Sixth]

I have no idea who we should be rooting for. Probably neither.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

I have no idea who we should be rooting for. Probably neither.

Civilization, which can be summed up as "not killing people who aren't attacking you". So you're very close with "neither". I know very little about internal Yemeni politics, so I've no idea who's defending themselves, or if anyone is. But I suspect that the hereditary dictatorships dropping bombs aren't the good guys, no matter who they're targeting.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

I'm beginning to doubt the effectiveness of protracted airstrikes on terror targets.

They seem to work just fine at destabilization. Pakistan next?

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

I have no idea who we should be rooting for. Probably neither.

I'm personally backing the South Yemeni independence rebels.

[njwes]

I have no idea who we should be rooting for. Probably neither.

I'm personally backing the South Yemeni independence rebels.

Unfortunately that's the equivalent of backing the "moderate" "freedom fighters" in Syria

[ingemann]

I have no idea who we should be rooting for. Probably neither.

One is a coalition of some of the worst oppressive, dictatorial and theocratic regimes in the world trying to pop up a puppet government with zero public support.

The other are a popular coalition of religious heterodox tribes, through dominated by the Shia group. It's also very hostile to  the Al Quada group which operate in Yemen.

Of course the former are western allies and the latter friendly toward Iran. But even with that I prefer the rebels.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Susan's position in the alliance is intriguing. I guess Al-Bashir has now completely changed sides.

[politicus]

Susan's position in the alliance is intriguing. I guess Al-Bashir has now completely changed sides.

Susan is such a weathervane.

[ingemann]

Susan's position in the alliance is intriguing. I guess Al-Bashir has now completely changed sides.

I think the Iraqi invasion and Arab spring radical changed the perspective of the Middle East, from radical Islam was in opposition to the West, it seem now that in very simple term the conflict have changed to fundamentalist Sunnis trying to purge the Middle East of Shia Islam and Secularism.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Susan's position in the alliance is intriguing. I guess Al-Bashir has now completely changed sides.

Susan is such a weathervane.

Lol

[Silent Hunter]

I have no idea who we should be rooting for. Probably neither.

I'm personally backing the South Yemeni independence rebels.

Would dividing Yemen back into North and South be that bad a thing?

[Cory]

I have no idea who we should be rooting for. Probably neither.

The Houthi's, of course.

[Hnv1]

Egypt and SA planning a ground intervention. It seems Sisi is trying to pull Nasser with his new Saudi sugar daddies funding