It is all about oil. As far as the "Great powers" are concerned, Man's inhumanity to Man, is of no consequence,

David

Mahomed , Mahamud, or whatever you spell his name as, "married" a girl Aisha at 6 years old and consummated the " marriage" when she was 9.
He conquered a tribe of Jews, beheaded every adult male and sold all females and children into slavery.

Such is recorded in the Arabic texts- the "ahadith"

In the Koran ( Q'aran or whatever) he specifically approves giving prisoners of war the choice of conversion to Islam or death and suggests you do your wife beating away from the house.
If alive today in Australia or any civilised country he would be in gaol as a paedophile and a war criminal.

Until middle eastern people stop looking for guidance and parameters of their morality to the teachings of a paedophile war criminal wife beater who progressed his religi0on by the sword, those people will suffer terribly from the society such belief create

I'm not sure it's all about oil? But could be?

Meaning, the sooner we transition away from fatty acid hydrocarbons and onto something else like thorium, abundant the world over and cheap as chips, the better!

I think much of this abhorrent suffering could conceivably be curtailed by the, gifted roll out of thorium based nuclear power and use it initially to desalinate copious seawater. Utilizing (also gifted) space age deionization dialysis, that produces 90% SAFE, CLEAN, SANITARY potable water, for just a tiny fraction of the cost of traditional desalination!

[And removes more than just salt, but many other problematic ions/contamination!]

So cheap in fact, so as to be able to be utilized to underpin some very big broad scale, economically viable, irrigation, food and fibre farming pursuits on currently, bone dry, desert or arid land!

Food and water abundance could quite dramatically ease the famine? Clean safe water central to controlling cholera!

Practicable doable steps should be trialled first!

Not sure what the answer is for the stone age centuries old divide between competing Sunni and Shiite Islam, or why barbarity seems both acceptable and a way of life for dehumanised monsters!?

But for sure and certain, unable to be imposed from without!
Alan B.

It's become mandatory for any conflict in the ME, in which the West takes sides, to portray it as a sectarian conflict. Yes, of course, the Houthis are one religious sect (the bad sect) and all the rest are the other religious sect, the one favoured by the West (the good sect). The bad sect is driven by religious fanaticism and the good sect is driven by the need to be rational upholders of freedom or something or other (as long as they toe the Washington consensus).

The fact that the Houthi rebellion might actually be a national movement that strongly subscribes to the principles of Arab nationalism, pan-Islamism and opposition to US-Israel-Saudi control of Yemen's resources (or that the rebellion actually began with the government's decision to decrease fuel subsidies) is noticeably missing from the Western media's fanatical drive to pitch the conflict as a power struggle between Sunnis and Shi-ites.

The Islamic world is at war with the West, Alon Meir. So, as far as I am concerned, it is just bad guys killing bad guys. I wish both sides luck. If I was allowed to, I would buy two crates of 7.62X39 ammo from the Horsley park Gun Shop. I would then send one crate to Saudi Arabia, and the other one to the rebels in Yemen.

Keep your powder dry boys, and don't jerk the trigger. Inshallah.