Quit crying about the actions of the west, clean your own house!
This is just another example of the eternal Sunni/Shia war within Islam.
Blame the meddling power that actually caused this: Iran.
I should tangentially mention that I am a product of Western culture and Don2 is right: I'm an American citizen. Now, that we have gotten assumptive biases out of the way, I should also like to mention that it should not have mattered an iota whether I belonged to the U.S. or not because the focus should have been on the genocide happening in Yemen. Even if, by the way, I had not been from the West, and instead been somewhere in the East, I would still have a right to point out a humanitarian crisis that is being perpetrated with Western political blessing. By the way, it is not just that President Donald Trump has signed an armament deal worth billions but it is also that we've been providing "
military and intelligence assistance" since 2015 to Saudi Arabia. I don't know why that makes you think we're side players in this game of death and destruction when we've been deliberately orchestrating this inhumane game in favor of Saudi Arabia (SA). Aid agencies have been warning our government of the humanitarian crisis in Yemen since 2015, and yet we've consistently failed to revise our foreign policy to ameliorate the crisis in Yemen and instead even lost ourselves the opportunity to stand up in the name of justice and mercy to chastise SA for its continuation of bombing that robs innocent people and children of a future.
SA is currently even preventing humanitarian aid from reaching the Yemeni peoples.
I disagree with you on another point, specifically your simplistic analysis of Saudi Arabia's motivations in this warfare. While I have no doubt that Saudi Arabia being a Sunni-majority country is partially motivated to act against Yemen in this inhumane way due to the centuries-old sectarian conflict with Iran being a Shia-majority country, Saudi Arabia also is doing so to ensure that its hegemony remains unchallenged in the Middle East and because SA desires that U.S. choose SA to have better foreign relations with over Iran. In spite of President Donald Trump's tumultuous time in Oval Office, the fact remains that America is still considered the most powerful and fearsome country in the world; and SA wants powerful allies, especially from the West (U.S. and U.K.).
Despite Iran's obvious flaws as an oppressive government, at least for its peoples and its rather sometimes hostile attitude towards the West, let's try to be honest about why U.S. doesn't like Iran: U.S. doesn't like Iran is because Iran doesn't bow down to Western hegemony as do all other countries in the world. So, while SA wants to enslave itself to U.S. despite not being a "friend" in the sense of preventing Wahhabism from dominating the Muslim world, Iran wants to stand in consideration as an equal partner and be able to look all Western countries in the eye and call the "West" (though of course I know we're not a monolith) out as a peoples and a country on the sometimes hypocritical attitudes we are wont to adopt and also our unfettered support for Israel against Palestine. However, SA is a monarchy and one at that which desperately wants to preserve its regime and believes allying itself with the West will make it less likely for a CIA-directed and MI6-blessed coup to occur against the regime; and SA is right. However, SA's monarchy will fail, as have other monarchies in the past when hubris overtook their remaining moral compass.
I have written what I've written as a Sunni Muslim, one who has at this point in time been a Muslim for less years than I have been an atheist in the past.
And despite what some may think or say (even you, sir), the West is "my house." And I am hoping that that we're all as a collective going to participate in cleaning the house for many different reasons, including the reason above in 2018 and in 2020. I would like to support Senate candidates that do not think such matters are A-okay just because, and I want to help elect a President that represents fairness and justice and mercy for all peoples, including Americans who do not have a stake in this game and so should not be made to feel the burden of even indirectly the lost lives of innocent peoples in Yemen through oppressive and ill-thought-out foreign policy decisions that do not represent Western or even American values.
Also, if you think I haven't posted about the Yemeni genocide in a Muslim-majority board, you'd be incorrect. In fact, even before creating the thread on here, I had sought to raise awareness about the humanitarian crisis in Yemen on a Muslim-majority board (as I do with other issues periodically when I find myself concerned). And I have long spoken out against the Sunni-Shia sectarian conflict within the Muslim world, as I am not of a tribal mindset and never have been, creditable almost entirely to values that I cherished as an atheist and still do as a Muslim.
It's bigoted to point the blame at the primary entities involved rather than his pointing at a very secondary entity?
See above.
Iran is the biggest player in world terrorism these days. Just because your side doesn't want to admit this doesn't make it go away.
I disagree with you: While I'm Sunni, I'm not blind to the fact that the Sunni side, specifically the Wahhabism-laden understanding in Sunnism, is currently as per the definition of "terrorism" the biggest player in terrorism. Iran, as a Shia-majority country, doesn't come even close. The reason I earlier put terrorism in quotation marks is because terrorism, like it or not, now is synonymous with and mostly used only as a means of defining any hostile act or terror plot in which a Muslim person or group participated and does not include other types of religious, ethnic, political or secular attacks or plots that take place around the globe.
Peace.
(in the minds of US Sponsors)