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Article
The Moral Peril of Proxy Wars
Foreign Policy
(2019)
Abstract
An airstrike from the Saudi-led coalition forces in Yemen hit near a hospital supported by Save the Children late last month, killing seven people. It was the latest tragedy in a war, now entering its fifth year, that has been full of them. In 2018, the war in Yemen caused more than 90 civilian deaths or injuries a week.
The U.S. Congress initiated a long-overdue reckoning this week with the human costs of war in Yemen, voting to end the United States’ support for the Saudi-led coalition’s campaign in Yemen. In the absence of a larger reckoning with the ethics of intervening in proxy conflicts, however, it’s only a matter of time until Yemen’s horrors are repeated elsewhere with U.S. assistance.
Keywords
- Saudi Arabia,
- Yemen,
- United States
Disciplines
Publication Date
April 5, 2019
Citation Information
C. Anthony Pfaff and Patrick Granfield. "The Moral Peril of Proxy Wars" Foreign Policy (2019) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/c-pfaff/44/