Hey there.
Today I am going to be dealing with a single news story, which I don't normally do.
But it is so important, and it says so much about the stuff that this channel covers that
I think it's worth unpacking this in depth.
Last week the Wall Street Journal revealed that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo overruled
almost everybody at the state department to keep the war in Yemen going.
He chose to continue this slaughter to preserve a measly 2 billion dollars of arms sales.
This story reveals the sad truth about US policy in Yemen, and US foreign policy more
generally.
Let's start this sad story with a bit of good news.
In August the outrageously expensive John S. McCain 2019 National Defense Authorization
Act became law.
As I have talked about before, opposition to the US Saudi war on Yemen is increasing
in Congress.
All the serious attempts to stop the war were kept out of the 2019 NDAA, but the war hawks
couldn't keep Yemen out completely.
As of last month US refueling of Saudi and UAE planes is contingent on the State department
certifying that those countries are making an effort to murder fewer civilians.
This is not enough.
But it is something.
The defense department has also been required to do a review, but hopes were much higher
for the diplomats at the state department.
The decision on certification was eagerly awaited.
We were all disappointed.
On September 10th Mike Pompeo, the head of the State department, certified that Saudi
Arabia and the UAE were making good faith efforts to stop the war, provide humanitarian
aid, and correct the policies that have led to the slaughter of of over 16,000 civilians.
The certification was accompanied by a standard memo citing the evils of Iran that could have
been produced by the Saudi government.
This was terribly disappointing.
Last week we learned that we weren't the only ones who were disappointed.
The Wall Street Journal attained a memo that made it clear that all of the State Department's
experts thought Pompeo should not certify.
They knew that Saudi Arabia and the UAE were doing none of the things that US Law required
them to investigate.
The slaughter continues, and the US government is very, very complicit.
But Pompeo was more interested in selling another 2 billion dollars of missiles, so
he certified anyway, quite probably breaking the law.
Why?
At this point I think it's worth looking into who exactly Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
is.
He came to national prominence when he was elected as a tea party Republican from Kansas
in 2010.
Though he endorsed Marco Rubio in 2016, he quickly reconciled himself to Trump World
and he was rewarded, first as head of the CIA, then as head of the State Department.
So he looks like a good anti-establishment type of guy right?
Tea party guy from Kansas and a born-again Trumpkin?
Unfortunately it's all bullshit.
Mike Pompeo is the elite personified.
He was born in hyper wealthy Orange County California.
He attended West Point and Harvard Law School, two of the world's most elite institutions.
After law school he worked at one of the most prestigious law firms in the country.
In 1998 he moved to Kansas with some West Point buddies to set up a Defense Contractor.
His financial disclosure forms make him one of the poorest members of the Trump Administration,
but I find that hard to believe, considering the fact that he sold his company to the massive
private equity firm Highland Capital Management in 2007.
My guess is that his wife or his son is probably a lot richer.
His entire resume is filled with links to the Koch brothers and defense contractors
like Lockheed Martin and Raytheon.
Mike Pompeo is the Military Industrial Complex.
This guy isn't anti establishment.
He is the establishment.
And when he had the chance to do the right thing the decent thing, and even the legal
thing on Yemen, of course he didn't do it.
His whole career made this inevitable.The fact that this guy is one of the most trusted,
powerful and well rewarded members of the Trump administration makes it very clear that
Trump doesn't represent anything new.
US foreign policy is just as owned by the Military Industrial Complex as it always has
been.
This is profoundly sad.
But we should be grateful to the Wall Street Journal for running this story and making
the Truth about Yemen and the man who runs US Foreign Policy so painfully clear.
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