during the empire's vietnam excursion in the sixties an officer famously said they had to destroy a village to save it, and he must have been pompeo's father because 'our' secretary of state has essentially just said the same thing about yemen;


US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has rebuked senators for passing a resolution to end Washington’s support for the Saudi war on Yemen, saying they should back Riyadh if they "truly care about Yemeni lives."
In comments to the media in Washington on Friday, Pompeo claimed the vote showed that American senators do not care about the Yemeni people.
"If you truly care about Yemeni lives, you'd support the Saudi-led effort to prevent Yemen from turning into a puppet state of ... Iran," he said.
On Wednesday, the Republican-led Senate approved the resolution to halt US military assistance for the Saudi offensive against Yemen by a 54 to 46 tally...........https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/03/16/591165/Mike-Pompeo-Saudi-Arabia-Yemen