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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
You keep bringing this up framing Saudi as the sole bad guys in this, but it is detached from reality and demonstrates a huge ignorance of facts / inability to consider with what is actually going on.
The Houthis are a terrorist organization as determined by the UN that launches daily missile / rocket attacks into Saudi Arabia. Just last weekend they blew up a Saudi Aramco site.
Name one country that would stand idle and let a neighbouring territory fire rockets and missiles into its nation without response. The fact that the Houthis hide amongst the Yemeni local population (who of course in large respects support them...) and decide to put their missile / attack launchers in / around civilian buildings, etc. seems to be casually ignored in Saudi's sovereign right to defend itself. So yes your damn right they are going to bomb these people who cowardly decide to go hide amongst local civilian populations. No different than what Canada / States had to do in Afghanistan against the Taliban during those campaigns either.
What would Canada / US do if the people on a nearby side of the border of either country were just launching stray missiles into Vancouver / LA all willy nilly and killing Canadians or Americans and arbitrarily destroying infrastructure? I asked you this in the other thread and didn't get an answer.
You can't walk around condemning the Saudis exclusively here or you sound again, detached from reality and ignorant of who and what the Houthis really are.
There is an ocean of difference between what Saudis are doing and what Russia did and if you cannot see that you may want to read up a bit more on the entire situation and historical context. Was Ukraine launching missiles into Russia for the last 7 years randomly killing Russians? To equate things is patently ridiculous.
Furthermore the Saudis for the last 2 weeks have been trying to have peace discussions as encouraged by the States and the Houthis refused and escalated violence. There are peace talks scheduled for Riyadh and the Houthis won't do it because they "are not on neutral ground" yet have not proposed an alternative. The Saudis are not some exclusive evil regime in this fight so to frame it like this is straight up wrong.
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Okay, let's accept that there is some nuance to the armed conflicts (both sides can be bad/wrong).
Now do Jamal Khashoggi.
Or women. Or LGBT people.