[video=youtube_share;QI6avcgOUqY]http://youtu.be/QI6avcgOUqY[/video] It's all about maintaining U.S. hegemony in the Persian Gulf - where "any change in the status quo would have to be dealt with by the full range of power-assets available" to the United States (Secretary of State Alexander Haig, March 18, 1981). "It is the Gulf that forms the indispensable key to the defense of the American global position," writes Robert Tucker in Foreign Affairs. "Alongside the stakes accruing from control of the Gulf, the contest in other regions of the Third World can have but a peripheral significance. In the Gulf, we are necessarily concerned with internal order because this issue cannot be separated from a vital interest in access to oil supplies. We have no choice when faced by threats that, if permitted to go unmet, could result in sacrificing interests on which the nation's economic well-being and the integrity of its basic institutions depend."
Have read much about Yemen's history over the past 60 years? KSA has been propping Yemen up for at least that long.. with food, healthcare, gasoline and humanitarian aid.. Yemen is pretty lawless outside the capital and has become home to Al Houthis who are forever trying to sneak into Saudi Arabia to carry out terrorist attacks.. plus, there's Boko Haram, al Shaabab, Al Qaeda, and the odd assortment of Somali pirates. Before that.. it was the royalists against the communists.. Saudi Arabia doesn't need a failed state on their southern border trying to control the Shatt al Arab on one side and the entrance to the Persian Gulf from the Indian ocean.
It's about suppressing the Shi'ite population, which of course are "threats that, if permitted to go unmet, could result in sacrificing interests on which the nation's economic well-being and the integrity of its basic institutions depend."
Is the Saudi bombing of Yemen legal under international law? "BEIRUT, 3 April 2015 (IRIN) - In all the media coverage surrounding the Saudi Arabian-led bombing campaign in Yemen in recent days, few have stopped to ask a fundamental question: Is it legal? "A week ago, a Saudi-led coalition of countries began bombing Yemen to depose an Iranian-backed rebel group that seized control of the capital Sana’a late last year. The bombings have killed hundreds of people, including many civilians. "The Saudi justification for the attack rested on the claim that it was coming to the aid of a neighbour in need after a specific request from its governing authority – which is legal under international law. "Yemen’s President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi had specifically called for an intervention as rebels from the Houthi movement threatened his rule. "But having overstayed his term in office, resigned once and even fled..." I don't think so. http://www.irinnews.org/report/101320/is-the-saudi-war-on-yemen-legal
