<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>It would be premature to celebrate if that meant we were going to stop pushing. </div><div><br></div><div>But we're not going to stop pushing. </div><div><br></div><div>===</div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Robert Reuel Naiman<br>Policy Director<br>Just Foreign Policy<br><a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org" target="_blank">www.justforeignpolicy.org</a><br><a href="mailto:naiman@justforeignpolicy.org" target="_blank">naiman@justforeignpolicy.org</a><br><div><span style="text-align:left">(202) 448-2898 x1</span></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 9:13 AM Karen Aram via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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No, we've just taken a first step in the process.</p>
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Over 80,000 people have died in this war since early 2015, with 85,000 children starving to death, how many more people will die while the US plays games with our “good institutions."</p>
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The Republicans produced a bill to stop the war in Yemen, by attaching it to an unrelated "farm bill," the irony is inescapable.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 6px;font-family:inherit">I frequently hear statements saying, “the US has good institutions.” Really? If it’s so easy to game them, they aren’t good, if its so easy to buy them off, they aren’t good, just as our unions
have betrayed the people, they aren't good. GM workers are now forming their own community unions, and all I can say is "it's about time." It’s about time the people take over institutions that aren't working. </p>
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<p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:inherit">"The Senate vote to end U.S. involvement in the <a class="gmail-m_-8377312659691314248_58cn" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/saudi?source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG" style="color:rgb(54,88,153);text-decoration:none;font-family:inherit" target="_blank"><span class="gmail-m_-8377312659691314248_5afx" style="direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-family:inherit"><span class="gmail-m_-8377312659691314248_58cl gmail-m_-8377312659691314248_5afz" style="font-family:inherit">#</span><span class="gmail-m_-8377312659691314248_58cm" style="font-family:inherit">Saudi</span></span></a> <a class="gmail-m_-8377312659691314248_58cn" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/yemen?source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG" style="color:rgb(54,88,153);text-decoration:none;font-family:inherit" target="_blank"><span class="gmail-m_-8377312659691314248_5afx" style="direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:isolate;font-family:inherit"><span class="gmail-m_-8377312659691314248_58cl gmail-m_-8377312659691314248_5afz" style="font-family:inherit">#</span><span class="gmail-m_-8377312659691314248_58cm" style="font-family:inherit">Yemen</span></span></a> War
is a big step forward, and the House should do the same in early 2019. But to actually force an end to the Saudi war, Congress must cut off the Saudi Air Force’s spare parts, without which it can’t fly.."</p>
<p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:inherit">— Gareth Porter (@GarethPorter) December 14, 2018</p>
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<p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:inherit">Yes, we cut off their refueling in air, but that is a minimal cut off, when we keep supplying them with weapons, training, and logistics, and spare parts. When we keep supplying them with the right
to bomb “Al Qaida” with drones, we know what happens, “Oops, a wedding, a school, a hospital, sorry about that." (sarcasm)</p>
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<p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:inherit">I think its a bit premature to celebrate, for anti-war activists who are serious about ending the death and destruction being perpetrated by our “democratically elected government.” (More sarcasm) As
death will continue while we watch the games.</p>
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