Coming fresh off the cost of bombs dropped in Afghanistan, focus must be turned to a country 1,635 miles to the southwest as the crow flies. Unrest in Yemen was intensified after the Saudi Arabian led offensive in 2015. However, after 5 years, is it possible to stop bombing Yemen?
Money Money Money!
It all comes down to money and fear.
As with anything, the entire picture needs viewing. The numbers of innocent dead in Yemen is catastrophic, but bombs don’t just destroy life.
The Senate failed in overriding a Trump veto to sell $8,100,000,000 worth of arms to American Middle Eastern allies.
What if the United States didn’t sell those weapons to its allies? Those allies surely might be able to buy weapons elsewhere. The questions are:
- Should the U.S. just take the money because that money will just end up in someone else’s hands?
- Does it matter how or where the weapons will be utilized after the U.S. sells them?
On the first question, the $8,100,000,000 price tag surely wouldn’t be that high with any other nation dealing in arms. As far as we know, the United States is way above every other nations in arms technology. It should be with how much money the U.S. spends on defense. This advanced tech most likely fetched the U.S. arms dealers top dollar.
On the second question, there isn’t much guessing as to how these weapons will be utilized. As recently as August 2020, the Saudi-Emirati offensive in Yemen used cluster bombs, an internationally banned weapon. To be fair, the U.S., Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and the United Arab Emirates did all not sign the Convention of Cluster Munitions, or CCM.
For a list of countries that are a part of the CCM, click here! Cluster weapons are less accurate as they scatter as they fall.
However, the United States would not be “allowed” to utilize and sell cluster weapons if we signed the treaty, so there’s that.
If a person walked into a gun store and declared he plans on doing a mass shooting, would the gun salesman sell that person a gun? What do you think?
Stop Bombing Yemen Causalities
It’s not just structures destroyed by cluster bombs and all weapons. Lives go as well.
Unfortunately, a lot of these lives are innocent. Does that matter to the Chicken Hawk? No.
The Yemen Data Project keeps track of air raids since the Saudi-led coalition started in March of 2015. At the time of this post, there have been 21,998 air raids in Yemen.
Do Chicken Hawks even care what it would be like to hear air raid sirens on a daily basis? What if the air raid sirens were knocked out and bombs just fall from out of nowhere? Is this the life a Chicken Hawk even cares about?
People are dying. Imagine what these resources could provide if put towards any other project other than war. Stop bombing Yemen. Stop bombing the world.
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