Where was Senator Sanders when President Obama got us into Libya and expanded the war in Yemen?  I don't know. This week, Senator Sanders took the issue to the U.S. Senate floor: In the final weeks in the 115th Congress, Sanders has renewed his drive to put the crisis in Yemen on the agenda, and the senator and his allies could get a vote on ending US aid to the Saudis this week.  As the Washington Post reports, "The expected vote on a measure to invoke the War Powers Resolution – likely to take place Wednesday or Thursday – will be the first test of whether the slaying of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi has broken Congress's long-standing pattern of prioritizing the sanctity of the US-Saudi alliance through weapons sales and other cooperative military ventures over repeated, documented human rights violations." In a way, I agree with Senator Sanders. These "wars" should have been...(Read Full Post)