You can always tell a policy development is significant when it’s released late Friday afternoon – and before a holiday weekend to boot. The decision by the United States to “hold” further transfers of CBU-105 cluster munitions to Saudi Arabia is a perfect example. In this case it was even more obscure than usual since the information was leaked rather than announced by news release.
It shows the Obama administration isn’t impervious to the rising chorus of criticism against its generous backing of Saudi Arabia’s military operation in Yemen. That refrain has only gotten louder as civilian casualties have …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
