If the UN Won't Stop Saudi Arabia's War in Yemen, the U.S. Should

Now that the U.S. administration has woken up to the horrors of the Saudi use of cluster bombs in Yemen, it has a duty to stop supporting other weapon sales to the Saudis, as called for by the European Parliament and implemented by the Netherlands. It's unconscionable for the U.S. government to sell any additional weapons to this repressive kingdom. It's time to implement a full ban on weapon sales to Saudi Arabia. In addition to the war in Yemen, Saudi Arabia has waged war against other countries in the region. In 2011, fearing an overthrow of their neighbor's reigning Sunni monarchy by a protesting Shia majority, Saudi Arabia invaded Bahrain with U.S.-made tanks, brutally crushing a budding pro-democracy movement. In 2013, the Saudi monarchy supported the overthrow of Mohamed Morsi, Egypt's first freely elected president, and the installation of military dictator Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who has presided over horrifying human rights abuses of his own people. The coup in Egypt led to the deaths of over 1,000 people and the incarceration in squalid prisons of more than 40,000 political dissidents.