The Yemeni spring continues to smell of war and death. Under the ultra-luxury bombs of the Saudi monarchy 944 people died and an unknown number of children died.
Riyadh presents himself to the eyes of the world as a schoolboy unprepared for the first interrogation.
Dazzled by the suspicion that behind the advance of the Huthi there was Iran, without any proof and without a real casus belli, the Saudi monarchy armed the fighters and put together a coalition of ten Arab countries, all Sunni.
From the Emirates to Jordan, from Egypt to Morocco (which we still do not understand what threats to your interests have seen), to Pakistan (which then found itself mired in an unhappy situation), to Turkey, a strong army of 150.000 men , one hundred ships and one hundred and fifty fighter planes declared war on a small militia.
The Houthis are without aviation and without anti-aircraft, calling them trained is an outrage to military discipline. I wouldn't call them a "den of hardened terrorists".
If I had been in the role of the Saudi monarchy and its coalition I would have thrown myself headlong on something within my reach, like the Islamic State, a decidedly more worrying reality.
But it is known that in this crisis, as almost always in the Middle East crises, nothing is simple and straightforward. Nothing is as it seems.
When it comes to the Middle East it would be unnatural not to ask where the United States is or what it is doing. This time it would have been better for the stars and stripes policy to avoid a ridiculous figure and gloss over the poor Saudi performance. Instead, Secretary of State Kerry had to leave the room of the Geneva Hotel where the final details of the agreement that downsized the Iranian nuclear program were being negotiated and, in general dismay, had to give full support to the petromonarchy.
So for almost a month in Yemen a fierce war was fought.
The West - all without exclusions - hardly noticed anything. No press conference, no dedicated hashtag on social media, no marches of torchlight.
And no, we do not blame the politicians and the economic crisis: to care for it, we are also and above all we.
The Yemenis apparently can die without a reason as long as they do not make too much noise on the news.
When the number of deaths became embarrassing and the military targets had not even been scratched then someone asked - in a voice not too high - to stop bombing Yemen.
And with the same shameful incompetence with which the "Decisive Storm" began, the word end was written.
First, however, the fleets of half the world - including the United States - have been bothered and a naval blockade was invoked that was only valid for Iran. All to stop presumable weapons loads directed at the Houthi rebels.
For readers who were wondering, no other military operation was conducted this way so sloppy and childish.
The operation "Decisive Storm" has achieved its goals only because of objectives that did not exist from the beginning.
In military terms, the only aspect that has changed is the credibility of the Gulf States.
The Saudis would like to return to the old controllable status they had conquered hard before getting carried away.
Compounding the Saudi position is the embargo imposed on Yemen, which weighs heavily on the civilian population. Without food, electricity and running water a difficult humanitarian crisis is materializing.
Riyadh has already stated that it will bear the full cost of the humanitarian intervention directed at the Yemeni population and coordinated by UNICEF and the United Nations. When the Saudis look back - if they do - they will see that none of Yemen's problems have been solved by their military intervention, indeed.
The Houthi are still there, al Qaeda is still there, Saleh is still there, the Southern separatists are still there.
The jihadist groups linked to Al Qaeda, through the local branch of the organization called Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), have been able to take advantage of the war by conquering more territories in the South, while Sanaa has been shaken by a quadruple suicide bomb attack committed by kamikaze of the Islamic State.
A month of bombing was more than enough to make the world understand that Arab states are not ready to assume their responsibility for the world around them.
The war is never a decision to be taken lightly, the lives that animate a country deserve to be respected and not counted only as "collateral damage".
War becomes only a demonstration of force end in itself if it has no purpose and direction.
What happened in Yemen should also bring us Westerners to reflect.
The military intervention in Libya - which many hope is - has the same political and military bases as the Saudi bombings.
Without a guide and without a purpose military operations of any kind risk becoming the grave of those who fight it.
To distance oneself from the death that provokes the brazenness and the arrogance of an inept policy by bombarding from the sky will not stop terrorism, if anything it will nourish it with hatred and determination.
Let us take an example from a mistake that will cost Saudi Arabia leadership that it had practically made its own and that it miserably lost.
The war is not always the one who is the strongest.
(in the photo of the US State Department President Obama shakes hands with members of the Saudi royal family)
