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© Thomson Reuters 2024.Yemen's Houthis vow strong response after new U.S. strike
By Idrees Ali, Phil Stewart and Mohammed Ghobari WASHINGTON/ADEN©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Sanjinosebleed
Seems like the houthis are the only ones with a moral compass still intact! Biden is so obviously corrupt and under Israel’s thumb it is disgusting!
if Israel stops the 100 days of slaughtering civilians in Gaza the houthis will stop attacking Israel bound shipping which seems pretty easy to grasp!
Meanwhile the war criminal in Telaviv continues to flip the bird to world opinion and will continue with the slaughter of innocents for his own benefit and to steal more land for his right wing loony govt! The UK and US should be threatening Israel with bombs to stop the slaughter not Yemen!
starpunk
The Houthis are pirates, messing with anybody who comes their way. They're not associated with Hamas really, they're pirates. Looters, marauders, a royal pain in the butt to anyone whose vessel comes their way.
Joe told them and told them to knock it off, to cut the crap. Now he's letting them have it! This is a freedom of international commerce in neutral seas issue, not a political one.
This was done before with the 1986 Libya war and the 1987 - 88 naval war with Iran. Don't go blocking our trade routes!
UChosePoorly
So stopping violence by threatening more violence is ok in your opinion?
CS
Bring it on Houthis!!
TaiwanIsNotChina
Well the UK and the US definitely aren't going to do that when it looks like we need all of the manpower available to fight the murderous terrorists agitating on behalf of Iran.
bass4funk
Wait, that’s what Israel is doing. Why now all the hypocrisy?
And without Congressional approval. Now imagine if Trump would have taken the same action, the left would be beside themselves trying to impeach him on unauthorized war crimes.
Fighto!
Do whatever it takes to eradicate the Houthis - like the pirates and vermin they are.
Wick's pencil
No, only ships connected with Israel, or ships traveling to or from Israel.
Yes!
JboneInTheZone
Are the Houthis and ethnic group?
The bombings were done in response to attacks on U.S. Navy vessels. Those vessels have every right to respond with attacks
JboneInTheZone
This is completely false, they’ve attacked Norwegian and Singaporean ships. What connection do those ships have with Israel?
nik
Иран+Россия+Северная Корея+Китай....Ось Зла..Салфетка становится шире....
What harm have these countries done to you personally? What country are you from? In war there are no good or bad. There are eaters and losers. For many countries, the Axis of Evil is America and its allies. Ask the Palestinian civilians who is good and who is bad.
Desert Tortoise
None of the ships the Houthis attacked were either destined for or in route from an Israeli port. Not one.
Cards fan
Lol Yes. The Houthis are the ones with moral compass. That's why they brought back slavery.
ArtistAtLarge
Ah yes, a strong response. How'd that work out this time?
zibala
And ships not connected with Israel.
Oh, and the Arab on Arab war in Yemen has resulted in over 250,000 deaths--any uproar over this?
stormcrow
If you poke the bull, you get the horns. These terrorists (Hamas, Houthis, ISIS, whatever they're calling themselves) just want the freedom to rape and murder and take hostages at their own pleasure.
UChosePoorly
*Warning - moral compass may not apply to Shiites, Jews, or other assorted infidels. Oh yea, and women.
UChosePoorly
*Sunnis, of course. Sorry, easy to mix up who believes in which fables.
UChosePoorly
Also, this is their slogan, in Arabic, of course. Do they even want a relationship with us?
UChosePoorly
Like, their slogan is an immediate HR violation.
theFu
When the party who started the attacks won't sit down to discuss solutions and won't stop the violence, there's only 1 possible answer. I'd usually say, bomb them back to the stone age, but Yemen is living in the stone age already, so they just need to be bombed until there's no way for them to take violence to anyone outside their borders. I don't care if Yemeni want to kill each other. That's their business, provided nuclear, chemical or bio-weapons aren't used.
When they become pirates or attack other countries with made up reasons, then I care. Yemen is a proxy for Iran. That is very clear.
John
Without radar or missiles much less an Air Force or a navy, eh?
John
You mean besides use a major shipping lane for target practice?
But I get it, since there’s no harm to me, personally, I should but out of issues like Islamic terror, slavery, the subjugation of women?
Because that worked out so well for the planet in the mid-1930s, right?
HonestDictator
Actually, the US and it's allies are only "evil" in the eyes of the dictators, tyrants, terrorists, and autocratic regimes of the world. Freedom and happiness in contrast to their oppression and enslavement. As many have to repeat, Finland and Sweden chose to join NATO.... Not Russia, or China, or Iran..... Due to Putin's INVASION for TERRITORY to ANNEX. People know actual evil when it's shown.
TaiwanIsNotChina
They literally fire indiscriminately on a major shipping lane. These waste of oxygens need to be reminded of their station in life if they think they get to control traffic in the Red Sea.
starpunk
The War Powers Act has generally been used in wars concerning ground forces such as Lebanon in the 80s. It got ignored altogether for Iraq and the Libya wars and Yugoslavia wars were air and sea for the US. And Haiti 1994 was dubbed an 'intravasion'. Everything else just happened and Congress said nothing, sometimes nodded along.
Look on the map. The Red Sea is a major shipping lane, international neutral waters. And not every vessel going through there is even going near Israel. This is where freighters sail to head to Greece, Egypt, Italy, Croatia, even France and Spain and Portugal. These Houthi turds are harassing any ship they can indiscriminately whether they're headed to Israel or not. It doesn't matter. That has diverted some ships to sail all the way around the continent of Africa to avoid being taken by the Houthis, and that is a royal pain in the butt to say the least. And the Houthis have taken some potshots at US Navy vessels patrolling neutral waters. Joe told them to knock it off and they kept their shenanigans. So this is what they get.