"6 Yemeni children killed or wounded per day over the past 12 months, by the US-backed Saudi war," says UNICEF

6 X 12 X 30 + 6 = 2,592 dead or wounded Yemeni children (from air strikes and artillery, presumably). "320,000 children in Yemen face severe malnutrition.  14,000,000 Yemenis, including at least 7,400,000 children need health care.  10,000 Yemeni children under the age of five have died in the last year from preventable diseases."

And WHY do we visit this horrific amount of misery and suffering, death and destruction, on the innocent civilian population--and primarily the children--of a country which is no threat to us and has never done any harm to any American?  Well, en fin de compte, because we CAN, because we're EVIL and we WISH to, because the Yemenis are a peculiarly defenseless people--with lots of children--and because (in the words of an American official who was asked about it a year ago): "Our aid (to the Saudi military assault on the civilian population of Yemen) is a message to our partners that we are willing to give them support.  It is a message to the Iranians that we are watching."  Which is diplomatic twaddle based on absurd premises (such as that Iran might be a nuclear threat to Israel or to the Gulf monarchies).

Behind the bullshit, the real reason for for supporting a "war" (obscene military adventure) by some of the world's most oppressive regimes is that: "Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Emirates keep our weapons factories operating full time.  The Arab states recently agreed to buy nearly a hundred billion dollars worth of American-made war planes, tanks, guns and bombs.  And everything the Arabs buy, Israel gets free, since the United States has made a firm pledge to maintain Israel's 'military edge' over its neighbors.  This keeps the profits flowing to the arms industry, keeps employment high in several crucial [?] states, and pleases members of Congress who collect large campaign contributions from the arms makers and the Israeli lobby."  Oh yeah?  And just exactly what is this "arms industry"?  And where exactly is is located?  And what makes a state crucial? And which are those members of Congress who collect large (how large?) campaign contributions from which arms makers and the Israeli lobby??????