Analysis: Congress is helping Saudi Arabia destabilize the Middle East. It needs to stop.
Robert W. Jordan served as U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 2001 to 2003, and is the author of the bookThe September 14 attack on Saudi oil facilities—an attack the United States, Britain, Germany, and France all say Iran carried out—demonstrates how close the Middle East is to war. But the focus on Iranian aggression must not obscure Saudi Arabia’s own role in the worsening situation, including its disastrous war in Yemen. Rushing to provide U.S.
In Yemen, over four years of war has produced no progress in Saudi Arabia’s fight against Houthi rebels, though fighting has killed tens of thousands of civilians, and threatened millions more with starvation and disease. Many of the more than 20,000 airstrikes carried out by Saudi Arabia have used American munitions to repeatedly and illegally target civilians, despite the fact that the Saudi military has had years of U.S. training and support.
In the face of the dramatic September 14 attacks and given years of Saudi misconduct, Congress should resist pressure to reflexively stand in solidarity with Riyadh and should advance—not pause—its recent moves to restrain U.S. military support for Saudi Arabia. Congress is currently debating several provisions in the annual defense bill that would suspend U.S. support for the war in Yemen, and provide modest accountability for Khashoggi’s murder, including a temporary halt to U.S.
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