Adam Baron surveys the damage that the war on Yemen has already done:

Even if the war stopped tomorrow, rebuilding the damage would still take years. The airstrikes have destroyed swaths of Sanaa, the Houthis’ heartland of Saada, the central city of Taiz, and other cities, while a brutal air and sea blockade has essentially prevented food and water from reaching the impoverished country [bold mine-DL]. The World Health Organization has warned of the “imminent collapse of health care services,” and reports have put the death toll at more than 1,000 people — but that’s just in the major cities. A number of diplomats and officials from countries active in funding development projects in Yemen have quietly grumbled that the military action of the past month has effectively erased decades of work.

As Baron goes on to say, the war isn’t likely to stop anytime soon. The attitudes of all of the parties to the war have hardened, and the possibility of halting the fighting seems to grow more remote. A cease-fire is urgently needed, but that won’t happen until the bombing stops, and evidently the bombing will continue as long as the Houthis continue their operations. Even more important, the country needs a huge infusion of aid, but that can’t happen while the Saudi-led coalition is strangling Yemen with the blockade. The Houthis and Saleh may be hoping that the Saudi-led coalition loses international support as the war drags on, but if so they will probably be disappointed. There is no indication that the Obama administration intends to reduce or end its support for the campaign, and the other governments in the coalition haven’t been withdrawing support for the war.

One reason that there has been so little pressure on the Saudis to halt their campaign is that there are hardly any critics at home calling on any of the governments behind the campaign to apply that pressure. Insofar as the war on Yemen has even registered in our political debates here in the U.S., members of Congress have dutifully echoed the Saudi line about opposing Iranian influence. Last month, Rubio went so far as to describe the conflict in Yemen as part of an Iranian “master plan” for regional dominance. The Democratic ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, endorsed U.S. support for the war. While most members of Congress have had little or nothing to say about the war, there doesn’t appear to be much opposition in Congress to the U.S. role in this war. Then again, Congress can’t even be bothered to debate or vote on the war the U.S. has been fighting in Iraq and Syria for the last nine months, so why would they pay any attention to a war that the U.S. is merely enabling? So Yemen will continue to be wrecked with our government’s help and without any protest from our elected representatives.