![\"\"](\"https:\/\/natharatmouchrika.net\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/c98b4beccf4af5a975b8c565b02bb703-223x300.jpg\")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Over the weekend President Trump ordered a massive military operation against the small country of Yemen. Was Yemen in the process of attacking the United States? No. Did the President in that case go to Congress and seek a declaration of war against the country? No. The fact is, Yemen hadn\u2019t even threatened the United States before the bombs started falling.<\/p>\n
Last year, candidate Trump strongly criticized the Biden Administration\u2019s obsession with foreign interventionism to the detriment of our problems at home. In an interview at the Libertarian National Convention, he criticized Biden\u2019s warmongering to podcaster Tim Pool, saying, \u201cYou can solve problems over a telephone. Instead they start dropping bombs. Recently, they\u2019re dropping bombs all over Yemen. You don\u2019t have to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yet once in office, Trump turned to military force as his first option. Since the Israel\/Hamas ceasefire plan negotiated by President Trump\u2019s special envoy Steve Witkoff, Yemen has left Red Sea shipping alone. However, after Israel implemented a total blockade of humanitarian relief to citizens of Gaza last week, Houthi leaders threatened to again begin blocking Israel\u2019s Red Sea shipping activities.<\/p>\n
That was enough for President Trump to drop bombs and launch missiles for hours, killing several dozen Yemeni civilians \u2013 including women and children \u2013 in the process.<\/p>\n
After the attack, Trump not only threatened much more force to be used against Yemen, but he also threatened Iran. His National Security Advisor Mike Waltz added that the US may start bombing Iranian ships in the area, a move that would certainly lead to a major Middle East war.<\/p>\n
Like recent Presidents Bush and Obama, candidate Trump promised peace after four years of Joe Biden\u2019s warmongering and World War III brinkmanship. There is little doubt that with our war-weary population this proved the margin of his victory. Unfortunately, as with Bush and Obama, now that he is President, he appears to be heading down a different path.<\/p>\n
The Republican Party is gradually becoming a pro-peace, America first party, but the warmongers and neocons of the old line in the Party are not going to let go so easily. Unfortunately many of these dead-enders have found their way to senior positions in Trump\u2019s Administration, with voices of restraint and non-intervention nearly nowhere in sight among his top tier of advisors.<\/p>\n
To solve the Yemen problem we must understand it: Russian and Chinese ships, for example, are not being threatened because they are not enabling the Israeli demolition of Gaza. The slaughter there has been facilitated with US money and US weapons. It is the US doing Israel\u2019s bidding both in Gaza and in the Red Sea that is painting a target on us and unnecessarily putting our troops at risk of retaliation.<\/p>\n
The US government, starting with Biden and continuing now with Trump, seems eager to make this our war even though, as Rep. Thomas Massie pointed out over the weekend, Red Sea shipping is of minor importance to the US economy.<\/p>\n
In a real \u201cAmerica first\u201d foreign policy we would be following the Russian and Chinese lead and staying out of the conflict. It\u2019s not our war. End US military involvement in the Middle East and our troubles disappear. It really is that simple.<\/p>\n
Link : https:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/paul\/2025\/03\/17\/president-trump-stop-bombing-yemen-and-exit-the-middle-east\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Over the weekend President Trump ordered a massive military operation against the small country of Yemen. Was Yemen in the process of attacking the United States? No. Did the President in that case go to Congress and seek a declaration of war against the country? No. The fact is, Yemen hadn\u2019t even threatened the United …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-policy"],"yoast_head":"\n