The United States and Britain launched dozens of military strikes on Yemen on Thursday, raising fears of an escalation of conflict in the region. The strikes, launched in response to Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea that have disrupted global trade, left at least five people dead. The Houthi movement began targeting ships in November “essentially using a naval blockade in the Red Sea to prevent the blockade against civilians in Gaza,” according to our guest, Yemeni American scholar Shireen Al-Adeimi. “This is an offensive act. This is a breach of Yemeni sovereignty,” she says about the U.S. coalition’s strikes, which were launched without approval from Congress, and which Al-Adeimi additionally characterizes as “a defense of capitalism.”
It’s a simple case of “they started it”. The Houthis are the ones who resorted to violence, against innocent civilians who had nothing to do with the conflict in any way.
Just because we have so far successfully shot down their missiles doesn’t change the intent behind the attacks, to kill civilians and cripple international shipping.
You don’t negotiate with a madman shooting wildly into a crowd, you take him down. And they did so in the most humane way they could, targeting only missile sites, basically they are trying to take the gun away from a violent idiot.
It’s a simple case of “they started it”. The Houthis are the ones who resorted to violence, against innocent civilians who had nothing to do with the conflict in any way.
Just because we have so far successfully shot down their missiles doesn’t change the intent behind the attacks, to kill civilians and cripple international shipping.
You don’t negotiate with a madman shooting wildly into a crowd, you take him down. And they did so in the most humane way they could, targeting only missile sites, basically they are trying to take the gun away from a violent idiot.