Welcome to Deconstructed, I'm Ryan Grimm. In his first significant foreign policy announcement

since taking office, President Joe Biden broke with former President Donald Trump and

Barack Obama.

This war has to end and to underscore our commitment. We are ending all American support for offensive

operations in the war in Yemen, including relevant arm sales.

Biden's announcement, which came late last week, was the culmination of years of pressure

from opponents of the war in Yemen, and also a reflection of changing attitudes among

those in the Obama administration who had initially supported U.S. involvement. But getting

from that announcement to an actual end of the conflict will be no easy feat, and getting

from there to a place of real reconciliation and reconstruction will be even harder. But

the path is there, and it begins with understanding the roots of the conflict and the roles of

the many outside actors looking to enforce their will on Yemen.

Today, we'll talk with three people who have been following this conflict closely. First,

who joined by Representative Rokhana, who has a House freshman in 2018, pushed a historic

war power's resolution to end U.S. involvement in the war. As a sophomore, he passed it, though

it was vetoed.

Now, in his third term, he'll talk about his approach to the conflict in the wake of

Biden's announcement, as well as his run-ins with a powerful ambassador who plays an outsized

role in U.S. foreign policy decisions.

We'll then talk with Shireen Al-Ademi, a Yemen-born anti-war activist and assistant professor

at Michigan State University.

Finally, I'm glad to welcome my old friend and colleague, Akbar Ahmed, for his first

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