US complicit in every conflict in Middle East: Commentator

Press TV has conducted an interview with John Steppling, an author and commentator, to discuss the United States’ involvement in Yemen war. 

Here is a rough transcription of the interview:

Press TV: The fact that the US has admitted to its participation in the Yemen war, how likely can Yemen take a legal action against the United States?

Steppling: Well, legal action, I have no idea really but it seems as though there is a kind of shift going on. You have to look at the history of the last 15 years, say, in this entire region, the Middle East, the terror groups, the Islamic State and so forth, were at least shaped in part by US intelligence, Israeli intelligence, and Saudi funding if not intelligence. The war against the Houthi separatists in Yemen has resulted now in a humanitarian crisis in Yemen, 60 percent of Yemeni children are malnourished according to the last report. The Saudis using US made weapons, US supplied weapons have destroyed hospitals, school for the blind recently. It is just horrific.

So the perception in the US, there is suddenly a lot of pointing fingers at Saudi Arabia and I do not know what this signals but there is a perceptual shift at least against the Saudis that has escalated. The reasons for this I do not know, I mentioned last time I spoke with you that regime change in Saudi Arabia is not that far-fetched and perhaps that is true but the US is complicit in every conflict in this region and the ultimate goal is reshaping Western Asia and the Middle East and this is a small part of it. So they are certainly complicit in all the war crimes and there are a great many war crimes in Yemen.   

Press TV: And of course we have the US Secretary of State John Kerry about to visit Saudi Arabia to somehow raise awareness about Riyadh’s violation of human rights and the laws of war. The question is, will Saudi Arabia listen, or is this just another political gesture between the two allies?

Steppling: Well whenever you ask that question your answer is always it is always a political gesture but I think that there is no greater market for US weapons than Saudi Arabia unless it is maybe Israel. So these conflicts ultimately, the US has no interest in ending conflict, they have a vested interest in perpetuating conflict wherever it is and certainly here.

The question is more that the Houthis represent a kind of interesting ideological anomaly in this region, I guess is how I might describe it, but you are going to see if this conflict ..., I mean Yemen is being destroyed, the infrastructure is ruined, so you are going to see an uptake in Wahhabi extremists in Yemen now and how that plays out I have no idea but you have to remember instability is part of the goal of US geopolitical schemes, always.

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