The Houthis humiliate the Trump administration
Renewed acts of piracy unmistakably violate the ceasefire between the US government and Ansar Allah.
It is incumbent on the Trump administration to dutifully enforce the terms of the agreement they‘ve prematurely entered into.
The one useful virtue of our enemies is that they always provide us with another opportunity to correct our past mistakes. The idea of accommodating the Houthis has always been a mirage. It‘s time to shift to a more comprehensive Yemen strategy, one that goes well beyond performative air strikes.
Instead, the establishment of permanent US air supremacy over Yemeni skies, the support for Yemeni forces, especially the STC militia paired with sanctions and the rigid maritime and overland interdiction of contraband to the Houthis ought to threaten the very foundations of Houthi rule in northwestern Yemen.
This problem won’t go away as long as the administration puts speediness before thoroughness.
It is incumbent on the Trump administration to dutifully enforce the terms of the agreement they‘ve prematurely entered into.
The one useful virtue of our enemies is that they always provide us with another opportunity to correct our past mistakes. The idea of accommodating the Houthis has always been a mirage. It‘s time to shift to a more comprehensive Yemen strategy, one that goes well beyond performative air strikes.
Instead, the establishment of permanent US air supremacy over Yemeni skies, the support for Yemeni forces, especially the STC militia paired with sanctions and the rigid maritime and overland interdiction of contraband to the Houthis ought to threaten the very foundations of Houthi rule in northwestern Yemen.
This problem won’t go away as long as the administration puts speediness before thoroughness.
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