I was in Yemen to help and I saw the pain and suffering these KSA bombing had done. If you were there, your heart would break to see the pain and suffering of kids and their mothers. Hence my reaction; it is not to the people of KSA but the rulers.
You should have been to other parts of Yemen and Syria to witness all the suffering there too, understand the conflict instead of blaming one side and using unnecessary profanities.
Any suffering is deplorable, be it the Hothies of Yemen or their Sunni countrymen or Syrians, irrespective of religion, who have been mauled in the conflict for their belief and equally so those who have been presented for slaughter to fulfill a regime's expansionist agenda.
I think i should expand a bit on my earlier post...
The core reason for all the fighting in the region and Iran's pivotal role in escalating it is to fortify the position of its allys and proxies in the region against arch rival Saudis:
This is an undeniable fact that Iranian religious clergy feels that it should be them - their fellow clergymen - who should be the custodian of Islams most Holy sites in KaabatUllah and Al-Masjid-Al-Nabwi (in Saudi Arabia). This deep seated desire is what the Saudis call the pipe dreams and equally so the Iranians call the Saudi desire to destroy Iranian clergy the same.
In 2004, King Abdullah of Jordan warned about the emergence of an ideological Shiite crescent from Beirut to the Persian Gulf. That crescent has indeed emerged stained in the blood of the innocent.
Iranians have been relatively successful in their recent campaign because they have changed their tactics.
After Iran Iraq war, the Iranian Clergy changed the way it wages war on its enemies after suffering heavy losses.
The new strategy emerged inspired by the success of Mujahideen against Soviets and more recently the Taliban against the military might of the West in neighbouring Afghanistan.
What began in the 70s and 80s as local movements is now expanding its influence. The Iranian regime is using proxies, training and arming militias and using them as pawns in its war against Saudi influence in the larger region, all the while keeping itself and the general Iranian population away from harms way.
No longer is the life of ordinary Iranian citizens on the line while scores of Shiite (and Sunni) die in other parts of the region fighting for the expansionist agenda of the Iranian clergy.
No wonder the new rulers of Saudi Arabia have changed their strategy too. The Saudis have no other option but to counter Iran and find themselves forced to take proactive actions in Syria and even waging an all out war in Yemen. Such a War driven by religious hate and fervour is brutal, savage and their is no real space for mercy on either side
@denel
The question is why would the Iranian regime stop now that it has tasted relative success?
The answer lies in what we see happening from the Saudis, raising the stakes higher to such an extent that it either defeats the Iranian influence or forces and brings Iranian regime to the table and negotiate peace.
Untill that happens or the Iranian leadership has a change of heart to suddenly abandon their expansionist agenda, i don't see any peace in the region.
Therefore i wrote the following:
For any peaceful solution to succeed, both Saudia and Iran need to stop military actions. Iran has to agree to stop it's massive efforts to try and encircle Saudi Arabia in a Shiite crescent and the Saudis need to de escalate their massive counter military efforts to thwart Iran's increasing armed influence in neighboring countries.
Untill the above happens, there is no chance for any peace ever and the fate of the people would be in left in the hands of extremist mercenaries like the one
@Khafee 's OP is about
Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi.