The US isn’t winding down its wars – it’s just running them at arm’s length

Barack Obama is playing all sides against each other, but support for the Saudi war in Yemen will only spread conflagration in the Middle EastSo relentless has the violence convulsing the Middle East become that an attack on yet another Arab country and its descent into full-scale war barely registers in the rest of the world. That’s how it has been with the onslaught on impoverished Yemen by western-backed Saudi Arabia and a string of other Gulf dictatorships.Barely two weeks into their bomba