Trita Parsi: President Biden sides with MBS over Bernie Sanders in the brutal war in Yemen.
earlier this week. But the very same person who had vowed to end that war intervened and stopped the Senate from taking action — President Joe Biden. The White House feared that the Senate resolution would have emboldened the Yemeni Houthi movement. But Biden may have instead signaled that, even as he continues to undermine the United States, America still has his back.
The resolution would have taken the U.S.’s involvement in the gruesome war in Yemen out of the hands of MBS, and put it back in the hands of Congress. If we do not reach agreement, I will, along with my colleagues, bring this resolution back for a voteBiden’s opposition to the resolution was particularly surprising since key Biden officials, including national security adviser Jake Sullivan, Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, Director of the United States Domestic Policy Council Susan Rice, and head of USAID Samantha Power,
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