NYT: THE TRAGEDY OF SAUDI ARABIA’S WAR (Paywall)
CHEST HEAVING AND EYES FLUTTERING, the 3-year-old boy lay silently on a hospital bed in the highland town of Hajjah, a bag of bones fighting for breath.
The harshest criticism of the Saudi-led war has focused on the airstrikes that have killed thousands of civilians at weddings, funerals and on school buses, aided by American-supplied bombs and intelligence.
Children are starving?
That's truly tragic!
If we could (somehow)
fix this by magic,
we would.
IF we could.
BUT. . .if babies die
cuz our ally-pal Saudis
use weapons we sell them
fighting these Houthis —
backed by Iran. . .
IRAN?
You. . .understand. . .
We have this. . .plan
to. . .undo Iran.
Like we did, glory be,
in 1953.
You remember, no doubt,
how that one turned out?
Bad guys o'erthrown,
Shah on the throne?
And then Iran
left the oil co’s alone?
We really do. . .pity
these kiddies’ plight
and hope everything (somehow)
comes out all right.
BUT. . .since they are Muslim,
we note (with regret),
if they grow up,
they could pose a threat.
That's truly tragic!
If we could (somehow)
fix this by magic,
we would.
IF we could.
BUT. . .if babies die
cuz our ally-pal Saudis
use weapons we sell them
fighting these Houthis —
backed by Iran. . .
IRAN?
You. . .understand. . .
We have this. . .plan
to. . .undo Iran.
Like we did, glory be,
in 1953.
You remember, no doubt,
how that one turned out?
Bad guys o'erthrown,
Shah on the throne?
And then Iran
left the oil co’s alone?
We really do. . .pity
these kiddies’ plight
and hope everything (somehow)
comes out all right.
BUT. . .since they are Muslim,
we note (with regret),
if they grow up,
they could pose a threat.
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