OBAMA-ERA OFFICIALS ADMIT ERROR, WANT TO END INVOLVEMENT IN YEMEN
WASHINGTON Top Obama administration officials have acknowledged their responsibility for initiating U.S. involvement in Yemen’s destructive civil war and called for the Trump administration to halt America’s role in the conflict.
Thirty former senior officials, including former national security adviser Susan Rice and former CIA director John Brennan, said the Obama administration decided in 2015 to provide limited support to a Saudiled military coalition in an attempt to ensure a prudent operation against Houthi rebels in Yemen and to steer the conflict toward a diplomatic resolution.
“We did not intend U.S. support to the coalition to become a blank check.
“But today, as civilian casualties have continued to rise and there is no end to the conflict in sight, it is clear that is precisely what happened,” the former officials wrote.
“It is past time for America’s role in this disastrous war in Yemen to end,” the letter says.