Just last week, dozens of bipartisan lawmakers sent a letter to the president urging him to seek approval from Congress before expanding military action in Yemen.

But Mattis on Wednesday said, “We can overcome any past frustrations.”

Since the war began in 2015, some 10,000 people have been killed, including 4,000 civilians, and roughly 3 million Yemenis have been displaced, according to the United Nations.

The announcement also comes just after Trump authorized an airstrike on a Syrian air base and deployed the “mother of all bombs” in Afghanistan, and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson confirmed that a preemptive strike against North Korea was “on the table.”

As Middle East expert Phyllis Bennis, who directs the New Internationalism project at the Institute for Policy Studies, wrote for Foreign Policy in Focus, “Not one of these actions was necessary. Not one will make people in this country—let alone the Afghans, Iraqis, Syrians, Yemenis, Somalis, or others—any safer.”

“The question now isn’t what Trump—or the generals and billionaires filling his cabinet—will do next,” Bennis wrote. “It’s what will we do next, as opponents of these wars?”

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