‘Accomplice to carnage’ belies a perilous overreach in Yemen
As Obama-era policymakers wrestle with their role in the war, they betray a certain naivete about their Saudi partners at the time.
Gabriele vom Bruck is Senior Lecturer in the Social Anthropology of the Middle East program at SOAS, University of London. She is the author of Islam, Memory and Morality in Yemen, and Mirrored Loss: A Yemeni Woman’s Life Story.
As Obama-era policymakers wrestle with their role in the war, they betray a certain naivete about their Saudi partners at the time.