{"id":11902,"date":"2018-08-18T02:29:08","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T02:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11902"},"modified":"2018-08-18T02:29:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T02:29:08","slug":"opinion-americas-silence-makes-it-complicit-in-bombing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11902","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: America&#8217;s silence makes it complicit in bombing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Dozens of schoolchildren on a field trip were killed in Yemen last week when a Saudi-led airstrike hit their bus. More than 50 people died; nearly 80 were wounded. Many victims were younger than 10. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Speaking by phone with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman a few days after the attack, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/08\/13\/politics\/pompeo-saudi-airstrike-yemen-school-bus\/index.html\">Secretary of State Mike Pompeo <\/a>&#8220;thanked the Crown Prince for Saudi Arabia&#8217;s support for northeast Syria&#8217;s urgent stabilization needs, its engagement with the Iraqi government, and its offer to help Iraq address its water and electricity shortages,&#8221; according to the State Department. He reportedly never mentioned the bombing. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The decision to work with Saudi Arabia and condone its brutality did not begin with the Trump administration. A long string of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/world\/middle-east\/saudi-crown-prince-round-off-us-tour-with-ex-presidents-meeting\" target=\"_blank\">American presidents <\/a>has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/09\/obama-saudi-arabia-228521\" target=\"_blank\">been <\/a>deferential to this oppressive regime because it is seen as a source of stability in the Middle East, and because it is sometimes willing to do dirty work in America&#8217;s broader interests.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Dozens of schoolchildren on a field trip were killed in Yemen last week when a Saudi-led airstrike hit their bus. More than 50 people died; nearly 80 were wounded. Many victims were younger than 10. Speaking by phone with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman a few days after the attack, Secretary of State Mike&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}