Why conservatives should be against US support for the war in Yemen
The war in Yemen has pushed 7 million people to the edge of famine. For three years the United States has supported the side which is most guilty for creating this tragedy: Saudi Arabia and its military allies. At Maine for Yemen we will publish a series of posts on why Mainers of ALL political persuasions should protest this war. Today we start with why we believe this war violates CONSERVATIVE values: 1) No threat to US security We have waded into a brutal civil war that we have no direct stakes in. The Houthi rebels who control most of Yemen’s populated areas pose no serious threat to US military personnel in the region, or any terrorist threat to the US. If they tried to restrict free movement of US shipping in the Red Sea our Navy could easily defeat them. 2) We are not fighting terrorists, and we could be helping them The Houthis are Shia Muslims. This makes them the bitter enemies of Al Qaeda and ISIS, who are Sunni Muslim extremists who want to drive Shias off the