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Ending the Yemen Quagmire: Lessons for Washington from Four Years of War
Two successive U.S. administrations have backed the Saudi-led coalition’s intervention in Yemen, helping deepen the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
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Congress should continue pressing the White House to end this support, while working to strengthen its war powers role in the future.
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By lending limited support to the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen, the U.S. became complicit in a man-made humanitarian disaster.
Washington sought to protect its own regional interests, shape coalition tactics and broker peace – but it…