Topics in the News: Yemen
JD Vance on Foreign Policy
: Oct 27, 2024
Withdrawing US military from Mideast sends wrong message
I don't think that we should be taking assets out of the Middle East at a time when our most important ally in the region is coming under significant attack. I don't think that would send the right message. And, most importantly, it's not just Israel.
It's us. We have interests that are important in the Middle East. We obviously have to deal with the Houthis somehow, because we want to reopen the lines of global trade. Very hard to do that if we do a full-scale withdrawal.I think a lot of
countries are going to try to manipulate our voters. They're going to try to manipulate our elections. That's what they do. I think the bigger question is, what is in our best interest vis-a-vis Russia, not what price Russia should pay for putting out
social media videos.
I don't think that we should set American foreign policy based on a foreign country spreading videos on social media. I think we should set American foreign policy based on what's in our best interest.
Click for JD Vance on other issues.
Source: CBS Face the Nation interview: 2024 Veepstakes
JD Vance on Government Reform
: Jun 30, 2024
We know the president has to have immunity to do his job
We know that the president has to have immunity to do his job. Should Barack Obama be prosecuted for droning American citizens in Yemen? There are so many examples of presidents Democrats and Republicans who would not be
able to discharge their duties if the Supreme Court does not recognize some broad element of presidential discretion. I'm very confident that they're going to be able to do that.
Click for JD Vance on other issues.
Source: CBS Face the Nation on 2024 Republican Veepstakes
Joe Biden on War & Peace
: Mar 7, 2024
Contain Iran; degrade the Houthis; include Saudi Arabia
As we look to the future [in Israel and Gaza], the only real solution to the situation is a two-state solution over time. There is no other path that guarantees Israel's security and democracy. There is no other path that guarantees Palestinian can live
in peace with peace and dignity. And there's no other path that guarantees peace between Israel and all of its neighbors, including Saudi Arabia.Creating stability in the Middle East also means containing the threat posed by Iran.
That's why I build a coalition of more than a dozen countries to defend international shipping and freedom of navigation in the Red Sea. I've ordered strikes to degrade the Houthis capability and defend
US forces in the region. As commander in chief, I will not hesitate to direct further measures to protect our people and our military personnel.
Click for Joe Biden on other issues.
Source: 2024 State of the Union address
Nikki Haley on War & Peace
: Jan 18, 2024
Never should have lifted terrorist label from Houthis
Q: How would you address the Houthi rebels in the Red Sea and the provocations without expanding the war in the Middle East?HALEY: Keep in mind, there would be no Houthis without Iran. There wouldn't be Hamas without Iran. And what truly fueled Iran
was when Biden fell all over himself to get back into the Iran deal. When he lifted the sanctions on Iran, it was the most dangerous thing he could have done. When he lifted the terrorist label off the Houthis, that was another thing he never should
have done. When Iran and their proxies get cash, it goes to fuel terrorism. And now we have that area of the Red Sea. That's a dramatic part of our global supply chain. And so now that they have started causing trouble there, you know, what we're seeing
Biden do is now he's like, "uh-oh, we're going to go put the terrorist designation back on them." And now even if he put the sanctions back on Iran, it's going to take a while to do that.
Click for Nikki Haley on other issues.
Source: CNN Town Hall: interviews of 2024 presidential candidates
Ron DeSantis on War & Peace
: Jan 10, 2024
Florida expanded sanctions against Iran
Q: Iranian-backed militants are attacking U.S. and western interests in the Red Sea (the Houthis), and Syria (Hezbollah) and Iraq. Would you order retaliatory strikes inside Iran at the risk of widening the Israel-Hamas War?DESANTIS: After the
attacks against Israel, anyone with half a brain knows Iran is behind this. They fund Hamas. They fund Hezbollah. We did a special session of the legislature down in Florida. As the 14th largest economy in the world, we expanded sanctions against Iran.
The root of this is Biden came into office and he relaxed the sanctions on Iran. They've had massive amounts of money flooding into their country. They take that money and they use it to fund jihad around the world. I would never put our troops in
harm's way, like Biden is doing in the Middle East, without defending them with everything they got. If you harm a hair on the head of one of our servicemembers, you are going to have hell to pay.
Click for Ron DeSantis on other issues.
Source: CNN 2024 pre-Iowa caucus one-on-one debate
Nikki Haley on War & Peace
: Jan 10, 2024
There wouldn't be Hamas without Iran
Q: Iranian-backed militants are attacking U.S. and western interests in the Red Sea (the Houthis), and Syria (Hezbollah) and Iraq. Would you order retaliatory strikes inside Iran at the risk of widening the Israel-Hamas War?HALEY: When it comes to
Iran, what we have to understand, there would be no Hamas without Iran. There would not be Houthis without Iran. There wouldn't be Hezbollah without Iran. And when you look at the strikes that are happening in Iraq and Syria, that is because of Iran.
They're pulling the puppet strings. We've had over 130 strikes on our men and women in Iraq and Syria is unconscionable. We're supposed to have their backs.
DESANTIS:
After the attacks against Israel, anyone with half a brain knows Iran is behind this. They fund Hamas. They fund Hezbollah. We did a special session of the legislature down in Florida. We expanded sanctions against Iran.
Click for Nikki Haley on other issues.
Source: CNN 2024 pre-Iowa caucus one-on-one debate
Joe Biden on Homeland Security
: Apr 28, 2021
Most lethal terrorist threat: white supremacist terrorism
In 20 years, terrorism has metastasized. The threat has evolved way beyond Afghanistan. We have to remain vigilant against the threats to the United States wherever they come from. Al-Qaida and ISIS are in Yemen, Syria, Somalia,
other places in Africa, in the Middle East and beyond. And we won't ignore what our intelligence agency has determined to be the most lethal terrorist threat to the homeland today: white supremacy's terrorism.
Click for Joe Biden on other issues.
Source: 2021 State of the Union address
Joe Biden on War & Peace
: Feb 4, 2021
Support UN-imposed ceasefire in Yemen
Defense Secretary Austin will be leading a Global Posture Review of our forces so that our military footprint is appropriately aligned with our foreign policy and national security priorities. While this review is taking place, we're stepping up our
diplomacy to end the war in Yemen--a war which has created a humanitarian and strategic catastrophe. I've asked my Middle East team to ensure our support for the United Nations-led initiative to impose a ceasefire, open humanitarian channels, and
restore long-dormant peace talks. To underscore our commitment, we are ending all American support for offensive operations in the war in Yemen, including relevant arms sales. At the same time, Saudi Arabia faces missile attacks,
UAV strikes, and other threats from Iranian-supplied forces in multiple countries. We're going to continue to support and help Saudi Arabia defend its sovereignty and its territorial integrity and its people.
Click for Joe Biden on other issues.
Source: Manchester Ink Link on 2020 New Hampshire Senate race
Bernie Sanders on War & Peace
: Jan 14, 2020
Great disasters of our time--Vietnam & Iraq--based on lies
SANDERS [to Joe Biden]: In 2002, when the Congress was debating whether or not we invade Iraq, I said that would be a disaster, Joe and I listened to what Dick Cheney and George Bush had to say. I thought they were lying. Joe saw it differently. Last
year, I helped pass a War Powers Act resolution, which said that the war in Yemen was unconstitutional because Congress had not authorized it. We got a majority vote in the Senate & House. Unfortunately, Trump vetoed that and that horrific war continues.
V.P. Joe BIDEN: I said 13 years ago it was a mistake to trust that they weren't going to go to war, to stop what we thought to be Iraq's attempt to get a nuclear weapon.
SANDERS: We have to face as a nation is that the two great foreign policy
disasters of our lifetimes were the war in Vietnam and the war in Iraq. Both of those wars were based on lies. And right now, what I fear is we have a president who is lying again and could drag us into a war that is even worse than the war in Iraq.
Click for Bernie Sanders on other issues.
Source: 7th Democrat primary debate, on eve of Iowa caucus
Bernie Sanders on War & Peace
: Jan 14, 2020
Passed bipartisan War Powers Act to stop Yemen war
SANDERS: When Congress was debating whether or not we go into a war in Iraq, I said that would be a disaster. I helped pass a War Powers Act resolution, working with a conservative Republican, Mike Lee of Utah, which said that the war in Yemen, led by
Saudi Arabia, was unconstitutional because Congress had not authorized it. We got a majority vote in the Senate. We got a majority vote in the House. Unfortunately, Bush vetoed that and that horrific war continues.
V.P. Joe BIDEN: I said 13 years ago it was a mistake to give the president the authority to go to war if, in fact, he couldn't get inspectors into Iraq to stop what--thought to be the attempt to get a nuclear weapon.
It was a mistake, and I acknowledged that. But the man who also argued against that war, Barack Obama, picked me to be his vice president. And once we were elected, he asked me to end that war.
Click for Bernie Sanders on other issues.
Source: 7th Democrat primary debate, on eve of Iowa caucus
Marianne Williamson on Foreign Policy
: Aug 16, 2019
Stronger position on Saudi Arabia; end involvement in Yemen
The United States needs to take a much stronger position with regard to Saudi Arabia. We must stop US involvement in the war in Yemen.
We should reject all arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the UAE. We should press for an independent criminal investigation into the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi including any role that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman may have played.
Click for Marianne Williamson on other issues.
Source: Council on Foreign Relations on 2020 presidential primary
Marianne Williamson on War & Peace
: Jul 28, 2019
We're spending $350B supporting genocidal war against Yemen
Q: What should be America's role in the world?WILLIAMSON: Moral leadership. Our grandparents would be rolling over in their graves to see something like, for the sake of a $350 billion-dollar arms deal over the next ten years, we are giving aerial
support to a genocidal war that Saudi Arabia is waging against Yemen. I'm not saying that America was ever perfect, but there was a time on this planet when other nations, and Americans ourselves, saw that we at least tried to stand for de
Click for Marianne Williamson on other issues.
Source: CBS Face the Nation interviews in 2019
Joe Biden on War & Peace
: Jul 11, 2019
End "forever wars" in Afghanistan & Middle East
"The world's democracies look to America to stand for the values that unite us.--Donald Trump seems to be on the other team," Biden said during a foreign policy speech, hammering the president for "embracing dictators who appeal to his vanity" and
emboldening a worldwide rise of nationalism, xenophobia and isolationism. Biden promised to "end the forever wars in Afghanistan and the Middle East" and terminate U.S. involvement in the Yemen civil war.
Click for Joe Biden on other issues.
Source: Seattle Times on 2019 Democratic primary
Bernie Sanders on War & Peace
: Jun 27, 2019
Used War Powers Act to get US out of Saudi-Yemen war
Q [to Joe Biden]: You voted for the Iraq war. You have said you regret that vote. Why should voters trust your judgment when it comes to making a decision about war the next time?V.P. Joe BIDEN: I was responsible for getting 150,000 combat
troops out of Iraq. I also think we should not have combat troops in Afghanistan. It's long overdue. It should end.
Sen. Bernie SANDERS: One of the differences that Joe and I have in our record is Joe voted for that war,
I helped lead the opposition to that war, which was a total disaster. I helped lead the effort for the first time to utilize the War Powers Act to get the United States out of the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen, which is the most horrific
humanitarian disaster on Earth. Let me be very clear. I will do everything I can to prevent a war with Iran, which would be far worse than disastrous war with Iraq.
Click for Bernie Sanders on other issues.
Source: June Democratic Primary debate (second night in Miami)
Donald Trump on War & Peace
: Apr 17, 2019
Vetoed resolution withdrawing support for Yemen war
Trump vetoed Congress's bipartisan resolution to withdraw US support from the Saudi-led war in Yemen, cementing American involvement in a deadly humanitarian crisis abroad. "This resolution is an unnecessary, dangerous attempt to weaken my constitutional
authorities, endangering the lives of American citizens and brave service members, both today and in the future," Trump said in a memo to the Senate signaling his veto.The Constitution gives war declaration powers to Congress, not the president.
Click for Donald Trump on other issues.
Source: CNN.com on Trump Administration
Bernie Sanders on War & Peace
: Apr 17, 2019
Led bipartisan War Powers resolution against Yemen war
Trump vetoed Congress's bipartisan resolution to withdraw US support from the Saudi-led war in Yemen, cementing American involvement in a deadly humanitarian crisis abroad. "This resolution is an unnecessary, dangerous attempt to weaken my
constitutional authorities, endangering the lives of American citizens and brave service members, both today and in the future," Trump said in a memo to the Senate signaling his veto.Passing the War Powers Resolution, an effort led by
Bernie Sanders and Mike Lee in the Senate and Ro Khanna in the House, took immense political capital. It was the result of progressive antiwar activism and a rare coalition of lawmakers to claw back war-approving authority from the president.
The final resolution passed in the Senate with the support of seven Republicans, and in the House with the support of 16 Republicans, including some of Trump's closest conservative allies.
Click for Bernie Sanders on other issues.
Source: CNN.com on Trump Administration
Marianne Williamson on Foreign Policy
: Apr 14, 2019
Return moral principles to our foreign policy
I want the moral leadership of our State Department back. When you're willing to -- for the sake of a $100 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia, go along with support for a genocidal war that we know has starved tens of thousands of Yemenis, when
Mike Pompeo says, "well, sometimes you can have strategic partnerships with people who do not share your values," no, you can't. It means you have sacrificed your values. I want the moral principles that should be central to American foreign policy back.
Click for Marianne Williamson on other issues.
Source: CNN Town Hall 2020 Democratic primary
Bernie Sanders on War & Peace
: Feb 19, 2019
End Syrian conflict; pull out U.S. troops
- Foreign Policy: Use diplomacy to end Syrian conflict. Pull out troops, but in different way from Trump. Cut U.S. support in the conflict in Yemen, hold the Saudi crown prince "accountable" for crimes.
- Sanders would pull U.S. troops from
Syria, but said he would do it in a different, less "erratic" way than Trump recently announced. He believes diplomacy with Russia and Iran can turn things around in Syria.
-
He also believes the president did not have the right to launch airstrikes against the Assad regime and that war powers must get more rigorous oversight and/or approval from Congress.
- A longtime anti-war activist, Sanders voted against the Iraq
war resolution in 2002.
- He regularly called for the U.S. to withdraw troops from Afghanistan and Iraq.
- In both Afghanistan and Syria, Sanders has said that he believes the U.S. should remain involved, though with no ground troop presence.
Click for Bernie Sanders on other issues.
Source: PBS News hour on 2020 Presidential hopefuls
Kamala Harris on War & Peace
: Feb 11, 2019
Opposes US support for Saudi military action in Yemen
Harris opposes U.S. support for the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen. She joined with 55 other senators to support a resolution to end all U.S. military actions in Yemen that aren't aimed at defeating al-Qaeda. Harris spelled out her reasoning
for opposing U.S. policy toward Yemen: "More than 10,000 people have been killed in this conflict that was not authorized by Congress. I believe we must reassert our constitutional authority to authorize war and conduct oversight."
Click for Kamala Harris on other issues.
Source: Council on Foreign Relations on 2020 candidates
Bernie Sanders on War & Peace
: Feb 5, 2019
Our Saudi allies give US-made weapons to Al Qaeda in Yemen
As important as it is to respond to what President Trump said [in the State of the Union speech], it is even more important to discuss what Trump refused to talk about --which happens to include some of the most important issues facing our country and
the world. How can the President say nothing about Yemen, where the worst humanitarian crisis in the world is currently taking place, brought on by a Saudi-led war that the United States is supporting? Just yesterday, a CNN report detailed how our
Saudi and Emirati allies have been giving U.S.-made weapons to Al Qaeda-linked fighters in Yemen, and have also fallen into the hands of Iranian-backed Houthi rebels. This war is a disaster, which is why the Senate passed my resolution last
December calling on the president to end our support for it, and why colleagues in both the House and Senate re-introduced that legislation last week. Yet the president did not even mention it.
Click for Bernie Sanders on other issues.
Source: Progressive response to 2019 State of the Union speech
Bernie Sanders on War & Peace
: Nov 25, 2018
Withdraw US support for Saudi-led war in Yemen
Q: You back a resolution for pulling back any kind of U.S. support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen. Do you see, given the scrutiny in the wake of the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi new support for this bill?SANDERS: I do. When we brought this
up in March we ended up with 44 votes--only 5 Republicans. I think we now have a chance to get a majority of the Senate. I think people are looking at the horrific humanitarian disaster now taking place in Yemen. There was a recent report that over the
last number of years some 75,000 children have died of starvation. This is a country dealing with cholera, with a terrible level of famine. This war was never authorized by the US Congress in violation of our constitution. And you got the Khashoggi
incident which says that we have a Saudi government led by a despotic ruler who killed a political opponent in cold blood. Add that all together. I think the American people & Congress are now saying let us end our support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen.
Click for Bernie Sanders on other issues.
Source: CBS Face the Nation 2018 interviews of 2020 hopefuls
Donald Trump on Immigration
: Mar 6, 2017
Protect America by banning refugees from terrorist countries
The Trump administration today announced a new Muslim ban executive order entitled "Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry". [The original Jan. 2017 order reduces to 50,000 the annual number of refugees allowed from 7 Muslim countries, and
sets the number allowed from Syria to zero. After a court found that unconstitutional, the March 2017 order replaced the list of 7 countries with Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen, for 90 days]. The director of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights
Project had this reaction:"The Trump administration has conceded that its original Muslim ban was indefensible. Unfortunately, it has replaced it with a scaled-back version that shares the same fatal flaws. The only way to actually fix the Muslim ban
is not to have a Muslim ban. Instead, Pres. Trump has recommitted himself to religious discrimination. The changes the Trump administration has made completely undermine the bogus national security justifications the president has tried to hide behind.
Click for Donald Trump on other issues.
Source: ACLU Fact-Check of Trump Administration promises & actions
Jill Stein on Homeland Security
: Oct 19, 2016
Don't take sides in Yemen; arms embargo instead
Q: You propose "a weapons embargo in the Middle East"; what about Yemen? Should we be taking a side?STEIN: Well, we already are taking a side in Yemen.
Q: But should we be?
STEIN: Yeah, we certainly should not be taking a side in Yemen. We are
party to the war crimes that are being committed by Saudi Arabia, who's using cluster bombs made by us. And we've supplied $100 billion worth of weapons to the Saudis, who have been massively committing human rights abuses. It's against our own laws.
The Leahy bill requires that we not sell weapons to human rights abusers. So just in accord with our own policies, we should not have anything to do with Yemen.
Q: What happens if the Houthis take over Yemen? If the U.S. disengages in Yemen, how does
ISIS respond?
STEIN: Well, the point is, ISIS needs to be deprived of its nutrition and its life-blood. That's why we need to start an arms embargo, that's why we need to cut off the funding that flows through our allies, in particular.
Click for Jill Stein on other issues.
Source: Slate.com interview after Second 2016 Presidential Debate
Page last updated: Nov 02, 2024
Error processing SSI file