News from Yemen

[philip964]

https://news.yahoo.com/yemeni-model-abd ... 56008.html

Pretty model kidnapped off a photo shoot for not wearing a hijab.

And there is a humanitarian crisis there due to the conflict between Saudi backed government and the Houthi rebels who kidnapped the woman.

Iran, I suspect supports the Rebels.

[MaduroBU]

The rebels aren't "the good guys"; they're extremists who have attracted the ire of the Saudis by failing to temper their extremism with greed. The Saudis are not "the good guys" either. The best I can manage is that two groups run by bad people are killing one another for crazy reasons, and innocent folks, mostly on the Houthi side, are getting killed as a result. There isn't a role for the American military; i.e. efficiently killing people and breaking things will not improve that situation. Selling weapons to Saudi Arabia or buying anything from them remains a horrible idea.