[Peace] Houthi-Saudi Talks Don’t Justify Easing Pressure to End the Saudi Regime’s War in Yemen

[Robert Naiman]

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*Houthi-Saudi Talks Don’t Justify Easing Pressure to End the Saudi Regime’s
War in Yemen*

We’re very close now to ending the Saudi regime’s war in Yemen by
Congressional action. We can see the summit of Mount Doom from here.

Now that we’re so close, some people are claiming that the fact that we’re
so close is a reason to stop pushing. These people claim that there is now
no need to pass the Smith-Khanna-Schiff-Jayapal amendment on the “must
pass” “veto proof” Pentagon spending authorization bill that’s sent to
Trump, because the Saudi regime is on track to end the war now anyway. *Nothing
could be further from the truth.*

It's a very good thing that the Houthis and the Saudi regime are now openly
talking, but the Houthis and the Saudi regime have been talking secretly
for years. *The fact that they are talking openly now does not prove that
they are about to end the war.* They could keep talking and killing for
years. Every step of progress towards ending the Saudi regime’s war in
Yemen came about as a result of external pressure on the Saudi regime,
*especially
Congressional pressure*. So the fact that the Saudi regime took one step
towards ending the war isn't a reason to let up the pressure, just the
opposite. It's a reason to *maintain and increase pressure* to reach the
goal of ending the war faster.
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