US clings to Saudi despite reign of terror in Yemen: Analyst

The United States support for Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen is nothing but Washington’s clinging to the kingdom as its significant ally in the Middle East, says an American political commentator.

“The world knows that the bombing campaign by Saudi Arabia has killed thousands of innocent civilians in September and October,” Brian Becker with the ANSWER Coalition told Press TV on Saturday.

Speaking at a Saturday joint press conference with Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir, US Secretary of State John Kerry reiterated Washington's support for Riyadh’s war on Yemen, saying the Saudi decision to launch airstrikes in Yemen was aimed at dealing with the Ansarullah movement and al-Qaeda operatives in the Arab country.

Becker, however, said, “The United States support for the Saudi monarchy’s criminal bombing of the people of Yemen…is nothing other than an effort by the US government to hold on to the Saudi monarchy as a principal ally in the [Persian] Gulf.”

The Saudi “monarchy could not have existed over the decades without the support of the United States. Now it flexes its muscles in pursuit of its own regional interests in the Middle East,” he added.

He said the US administration and the Pentagon “cling to the Saudi monarchy at the very moment that it carries out this murderous reign of terror against the people of Yemen.”

Saudi Arabia’s military attacks against Yemen, which started in late March, have so far claimed the lives of more than 8,270 people and injured over 16,000 others.

The strikes are supposedly meant to undermine the Ansarullah movement and restore power to fugitive former Yemeni president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.

Ansarullah fighters took control of the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, in September 2014 and are currently in control of large parts of the country. They said the government of the fugitive former president was incapable of properly running the affairs of the country and containing the growing wave of corruption and terror.

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