The US-backed Saudi assault on Yemen has been going on for eleven months, killing thousands of innocents, destroying vital infrastructure, and solidifying the support of the Houthi rebels, the Yemeni group the Saudis claim they combating. This is what happens when Americans don’t pay attention to what their government does abroad in their name. It’s likely almost no American citizen has even heard of this conflict, but it is happening nonetheless, and it will have very real consequences.