Woodrow Wilson, Churchill, Mattis and Netanyahu would agree the answer to the question below is a big, fat YES. Yemen is a supersized Gaza.

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2017/11/patrick-j-buchanan/the-us-saudi-starvation-blockade/

Our aim is to “starve the whole population — men, women, and children, old and young, wounded and sound — into submission,” said First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill.

He was speaking of Germany at the outset of the Great War of 1914-1918. Americans denounced as inhumane this starvation blockade that would eventually take the lives of a million German civilians.

Yet when we went to war in 1917, a U.S. admiral told British Prime Minister Lloyd George, “You will find that it will take us only two months to become as great criminals as you are.”

After the Armistice of Nov. 11, 1918, however, the starvation blockade was not lifted until Germany capitulated to all Allied demands in the Treaty of Versailles. Read the rest of this entry »