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Why the US is Losing the War to the Houthis
Sultan Knish ^ | 5 March 2024 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 03/05/2024 4:16:26 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan

After Biden came home from his Caribbean vacation, the Deputy Defense Secretary came back from hers and the Secretary of Defense was on the verge of being released from the hospital, airstrikes were finally authorized against the Houthi Jihadis attacking ships in the Red Sea.

Biden said that the air strikes sent “a clear message that the United States and our partners will not tolerate attacks on our personnel or allow hostile actors to imperil freedom of navigation in one of the world’s most critical commercial routes.”

The message was not very clear since the Houthis then struck a bulk carrier owned by an American company and spent the next two months terrorizing the Red Sea. The Iranian-backed terror group which seized control of much of Yemen due to Obama’s Arab Spring has launched even more devastating attacks on ships and has now reportedly attacked an undersea cable, after previously deploying an undersea drone and warning of further “submarine” attacks..

(Excerpt) Read more at danielgreenfield.org ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Iran; Israel
KEYWORDS: houthis; iran; israel; redsea
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What IS it with the O'Biden administration?

Oh, right - Valerie Jarrett.

1 posted on 03/05/2024 4:16:26 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

We’re losing because The Big Guy wants us to lose. Or maybe it would be more accurate to say that The Big Guy’s puppet masters want us to lose.


2 posted on 03/05/2024 4:20:22 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

I suppose that suppressing the Houthis ability to commit piracy on the high seas would be genocide. A couple of battleships pounding everthing within reach ashore used to be the deterrent.


3 posted on 03/05/2024 4:20:34 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Because the government WANTS them to win.

We could do it handily if given the go ahead.


4 posted on 03/05/2024 4:22:58 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan
Obama's unstated, but obvious policy, is to have Iran become the regional superpower in the Middle East, supplanting the USA.

The Houthis are one of several Iranian cats'paws. Biden, in Obama's third term, doesn't want to degrade Iranian power. The policy is to have Iran take over, after all.

5 posted on 03/05/2024 4:31:00 AM PST by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

What war are we fighting?

We’re not fighting; only the Houthis are. We’ve moved into the era of let’s not hurt the POC’s feelings, because the media would tell stories about how racist we are.


6 posted on 03/05/2024 4:36:34 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Why the US is Losing the War to the Houthis

Same reason they have the UAS border wide open - its their policies: 0Bama/Biden.


7 posted on 03/05/2024 4:37:16 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan
Warning label on every plan and product of the left:

     "We Don’t Bear Responsibility"

- DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Feb. 11, 2024


8 posted on 03/05/2024 4:40:24 AM PST by linMcHlp
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To: metmom
From the article:

This strategy serves no one except Biden who has sacrificed the nation’s prestige, a major international waterway and the lives of two U.S. Navy SEALS to win an election.

9 posted on 03/05/2024 4:40:48 AM PST by sauropod (Ne supra crepidam.)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Can you say: “Carpet bombing”? Of course you can....


10 posted on 03/05/2024 4:51:42 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Once Trump in inaugurated, there will need to be major housecleanings in the Defense, State, and other departments.

And abolish the Dept. of Education (for starters).


11 posted on 03/05/2024 4:55:33 AM PST by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan
The Obama maladministration was chock full of Muzzies so Biden is just doing what he's been told.

I'm not a particularly religious person but even I can smell the stench of Satan on the religion of Islam.

I wish to see it eliminated from the face of the Earth.

No reprieves!

12 posted on 03/05/2024 4:57:52 AM PST by Aevery_Freeman (Demons are less evil than the DemonRatz and Rats are more attractive and cleaner. )
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To: Psalm 73; Chad C. Mulligan
Can you say: “Carpet bombing”? Of course you can....

You can say it, but can you do it?

Biden's handlers are sending every bomb and rocket to Ukraine to prop up his gravy train.

The Biden regime is working to destroy the US economy.

It is not about maintaining shipping lanes or preserving democracy abroad.

It is about collapsing the US economy so that a world wide socialist government can be imposed on the world.

13 posted on 03/05/2024 4:58:04 AM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

If Biden can’t beat back the Houthis, why do you believe he can beat back Russia?


14 posted on 03/05/2024 4:59:59 AM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: AndyJackson

Attacking sea borne vessels with airborne missiles is not piracy. The practice of the Houthi’s is all out war. What should be done is not really an American problem but a problem of the world shippers.

To counter the problem, it must first be determined who precisely is the enemy. Houthi’s are embedded into the national fabric of Yemen and Yemen is not at war with the world. Houthi’s are a riff raff Arab tribe with no resources. The Houthi war materiel is all Iranian.

Iran is thus the enemy and must be assaulted with extreme force. Iranian capability to export must be destroyed. The effort must not be proportional, tit for tat but extreme and lasting. The Iranian surrogate charade must be ended.


15 posted on 03/05/2024 5:11:34 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Hamascide is required in totality)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Winning wars is so-o-o-o-o-o last century.


16 posted on 03/05/2024 5:14:34 AM PST by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

The US seems to be losing everywhere. Syria ( US troops getting bombed), Iraq ( Iraqis vote to kick out remaining presence), South and Central America welcoming the Russians, Mexican cartels winning,…everywhere we turn we are seeing failure.


17 posted on 03/05/2024 5:16:30 AM PST by delta7
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To: Pontiac

“It is about collapsing the US economy so that a world wide socialist government can be imposed on the world.”

The same kind of collapse that killed-off the late Union of Soviet Socialist Republics?

(CCCP, USSR).


18 posted on 03/05/2024 5:17:49 AM PST by Does so ( 🇺🇦...Motels for Migrants give legitimate addresses for mail-in ballots.)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Oh, right - Valerie Jarrett
______________________
Jarrett and Obozo. Remember Obozo’s word - to paraphrase - If the world turns ugly against my Islamist brethrens, I will have their backs.


19 posted on 03/05/2024 5:46:03 AM PST by iontheball
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To: delta7

The only one we’re losing that I care about is domestically.


20 posted on 03/05/2024 5:52:16 AM PST by EEGator
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