Friday 12 January 2024

Houthis get what they asked for

The Houthi rebels in Yemen who, like the two other "H's" - Hamas and Hezbollah - are armed, financed and trained by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, basically asked to be attacked. They were warned that they faced airstrikes if they carried on firing missiles at ships in the Red Sea and they just carried on, except on a larger scale. So they literally asked to be bombed, and the US and UK obliged. But how long can this go on for? The Houthis will now do something in revenge and the US/UK will answer back, and so forth. If any Yemeni civilans get killed in the rush of missiles and bombs, the US and UK will be on a hiding to nothing. The poor Yemeni people have been suffering from civil war since 2014. Tens of thousands of civilians have been killed and wounded and made homeless by years of bombing by a Saudi-led coalition, armed with American and British precision air-to-surface weapons. Joe Biden and Congress became so concerned about the proliferating number of civilian deaths, the weapons flow to Saudi Arabia stopped. Yemen has been a basket case for a decade and at one point was described as a nation suffering the worst humanitarian crisis on the planet. So one civilian death from US or UK airstrikes and they are going to get condemned whatever the Houthis do next.

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