Robert Bruce Adolph·
The American and British militaries have been regularly ordered to attack Houthi positions within Yemen. The attacks make sense. The Houthis are repetitively attacking civilian ships in the Red Sea. The Bab al Mandab separates Yemen and Djibouti by a mere 16 miles, making it one of the narrowest shipping choke points on the planet. The Houthis feel justified in their attacks because of committed US support of the State of Israel in their on-going war with Hamas that has taken the lives of over 40,000 Palestinians. Far too many are innocent women and children. Houthi actions mirror those of Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. Both groups are thought to be Iranian proxies. No matter if true or not, the war in Gaza is ever-expanding. The dangers are clear and present.
Iran supplies the Houthis the military means for such attacks, currently and primarily missiles and drones. Hezbollah is also beholden to Iran for arms supplies. Iran, Hezbollah, and the Houthis — all members of the Shia variant of Islam — clearly share common cause, hatred of the Jewish State that was thrust upon a major Muslim geographic area by Western powers, often described by scholars as the last gasp of European-style colonialism in the wake of World War II. Nothing in the greater region has been the same since.
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