In the fervor and whiplash created by the 24-hour-news cycle, important policy decisions often go unnoticed by a distracted population. This week, obscured by the left’s elation of retaking Congress, there was a morally reprehensible move by the lame-duck House Republicans to block a vote renouncing U.S. support of the Saudi war in Yemen.
With tens of thousands killed and millions on the edge of what the UN Human Rights Council has called “mass deaths of starvation,” 13 million Yemenis will be subject to devastating famine if the international community fails to provide aid to the region. While the Saudi coalition in Yemen utilizes U.