{"id":175483,"date":"2021-02-06T20:12:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T01:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/02\/06\/another-step-back-from-the-slaughter-in-yemen\/"},"modified":"2021-02-06T20:12:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T01:12:00","slug":"another-step-back-from-the-slaughter-in-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/02\/06\/another-step-back-from-the-slaughter-in-yemen\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Step Back from the Slaughter in Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/02\/05\/us\/politics\/biden-houthi-yemen-terrorist-designation.html\">reversed Trump&#8217;s designation of the Yemeni Houthis as terrorists<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is significant in a number of ways:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>It facilitates humanitarian aid in the war-ravaged nation.<\/li>\n<li>It simplifies any US role in negotiations regarding a permanent resolution of the conflict.<\/li>\n<li>It is a rebuke to the House of Saud.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;It&#8217;s pretty clear that Biden is less favorably inclined toward Riyadh than either Trump of Obama.&nbsp; (It should be noted that Obama&#8217;s go to on intelligence while in office was John Brennan, who was for his entire career a fanatical supporter of the Saudi royal family)<\/p>\n<p>To the degree that the US can disentangle its foreign policy from slavish devotion to the House of Saud, this is a good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden has reversed Trump&#8217;s designation of the Yemeni Houthis as terrorists. This is significant in a number of ways: It facilitates humanitarian aid in the war-ravaged nation. It simplifies any US role in negotiations regarding a permanent resolution of the conflict. It is a rebuke to the House of Saud. &nbsp;It&#8217;s pretty clear that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[489,394,509,378,373],"class_list":["post-175483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-civil-war","tag-foreign-relations","tag-house-of-saud","tag-middle-east","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}