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Playing defense against Islamic terrorists doesn’t work. The terrorists, at least initially, don’t need to win, they just need to take your society hostage and force you to constantly be on the defensive. Parts of your economy get shut down and you’re always on alert.
The Houthi Jihadists in Yemen, backed by Iran, have taken a crucial waterway hostage. Biden responded by playing defense, responding to Houthi attacks on shipping but without making a concerted effort to take out the terrorist infrastructure.
And so here we are.
Biden’s Red Sea Coalition responds defensively to attacks on shipping.
U.S. Navy helicopters returned fire and sank three small boats carrying Houthi militants in the Red Sea on Sunday, after U.S. warships responded to a distress call from a merchant vessel, military officials said.
A Maersk container ship, the Singapore-flagged Hangzhou, issued a distress call at about 6:30 a.m. local time, U.S. Central Command said in a statement on Sunday. The merchant vessel said four small boats were attacking it.
“The small boats, originating from Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen, fired crew-served and small-arms weapons at the Maersk Hangzhou, getting to within 20 meters of the vessel, and attempted to board the vessel,” Central Command said.
Helicopters from two U.S. ships — the USS Eisenhower and the USS Gravely — responded and issued verbal calls to the small boats, U.S. officials said.
While the helicopters were “in the process of issuing verbal calls to the small boats, the small boats fired upon the U.S. helicopters with crew served weapons and small arms,” Central Command said.
Service members aboard the Navy helicopters returned fire and sank three of the four small boats, killing the crews, U.S. officials said. The fourth boat fled the area.
Read between the lines here. US Naval personnel were only allowed to fire on the Houthis when fired on.
They did not have authorization to fire when the Houthis were firing on the Maersk Hangzhou or on what were clearly enemy vessels, but only defensively in response to attacks on the US Navy.
Is it any wonder that Maersk is calling it a day?
Shipping and logistics behemoth A.P. Moller-Maersk said Tuesday that it’s suspending its shipping operations through the Red Sea until further notice as it investigates an attack on one of its ships by Iran-backed Houthi rebels this past weekend.
Biden has demonstrated that he’ll only react defensively to clear attacks. That’s not going to secure the Red Sea for shipping.
So Biden has handed the Houthis a victory. They don’t need to actually seize ships, they just need to demonstrate that the area is unsafe for vessels (unless they covertly pay protection money to the terrorists) and that America isn’t going to make the threat go away any time soon.
This is how we lose and the terrorists win.
The West is suffering a fatal inertia as it’s in the grip of the Tytler Circe
The left is also trying to ensure Hamas and Hezbollah win.
If Hamas was fighting Fatah or Hezb’allah, lefties wouldn’t care. They sure don’t care when they murder their own people.
But once dem Joos are involved, Hamas jihhadi terrorists become freedom fighters fighting against attempted genocide.
I believe it was Israel’s UN Ambassador Gillerman who said, “When Christians kill Muslims, it’s a Crusade. When Jews kill Muslims, it’s a Holocaust. When Muslims kill Muslims, its The Weather Channel.”
They wont win and cannot win. But the cost to Israel of winning – in IDF lives (mostly young men-sons, or young fathers) and hostage lives – will be higher and disruption to Israeli families displaced will last much longer because of the US backing the wrong side.
I have no magic solution but the cost of the American people doing nothing to address the 2020 election, the interference in Trump’s presidency prior to that, and all the hoaxes, media lies, and now lawfare is devastating. Hamas supporting demonstrations and college presidents who are for the genocide of the Jews now represent our national character.
When I state that the USA seems to be corrupt and immoral, some whip out their patriotic phrases and get angry at me. Don’t shoot the messenger.
Americans are pussies. The ones who claim to be patriots cower and do nothing while the weaklings steal elections and impose “woke” dogma on the public.
Didn’t Jihad Joe’s handlers have the only American warship in the Red Sea withdrawn yesterday?
On the upside, I seem to remember the IDF killing all those Houthi pirate jihadis who’d seized that commercial ship recently.
Not that I can get any info with Google sabotaging every search on the web. I don’t have the patience to slog through that crap.
Biden withdrew the aircraft carrier Jerald Ford and sent it back to port. I didn’t hear if the supporting warships were also recalled, but the Ford was the most powerful vessel on the high seas and withdrawing it did send a poor message to our enemies.
A deliberate message, I reckon.
The Ford was off of Lebanon in the Mediterranean, not in the Red Sea. But Biden’s policy, or lack thereof, in the Red Sea is a recipe for disaster. Instead of destroying the Houthis stockpiles of drones, missiles and launchers it is swatting each ten thousand dollar drone with a two million dollar missile. And one of these days one of them will get through and kill some American sailors or sink a U.S. ship. As in everything, Biden is an idiot or is being controlled by other idiots, or both.
It’s both, Indubitably so. An idiot controlled by idiots.
What does that make average Americans who put up with it?
The ones who put up with it are brainwashed and delusional.
You’re absolutely correct Daniel, but in defense of the Navy, firing only when fired upon is SOP without a declaration of hostilities or orders from the White House, and unfortunately for Red Sea shipping traffic, we can expect neither from this flimflam administration.
Yes, well you know Obama/Biden has already allowed the Arab Spring, Get ahead not behind of some RINO ass. Get ahead of Tucker BTW. Still waiting. Otherwise major RINO/Isolationist craps awaiting.
They will crap all over you even harder than Peanut farmer Carter if you don’t move. That’s how they are.
First you need to understand how they are. You’re imagining more but imagine less.
Imagine (Your comment is too short—try writing a little more)
There is nothing going on upstairs. Their upstairs department is only designed to get you to trip on how you didn’t live up to your ideals. Not theirs. Theirs are extremely basic.
There is nothing. Listen to the echoes if you want. You will hear only yourself.
Let me just be clear when I use the term fags I mean fags in the South Park way. People that flatter themselves like South Park.
South Park Fags.
Now, Dave Rubin is a great guy. You might even call him exceptional. Does that mean he’s normative?? Only in our imagination,
So when it comes to Tucker Carlson he misses the mark. Is Ben Shapiro blasé about immigration?? Obviously. That’s quite naturally where Ben Shapiro aligns. Will it cost him his life? Quire possibly.
That;s why this isn’t the abstract notion Tucker imagines.
*Quite* (Your comment is short)
That;s why I use the term fags in the Harvard sense without apologies, Harvard can make apologies.
Fags and Harvard. People that exemplify their own greatness as fags or as champions of the Palestinian underdog, Woof.
Woof, woof, very woof. Underdogs.
At some stage Ben Shapiro might realise all the arguments he’s been making are not entirely in the abstract.
Una. Ease back.
Yeah, when she posts that much people just skip over it without reading it.
Yes, but you’ve got to scroll like you’re spinning The Wheel Of Fortune, or to get to your birth year (if you’re as old as me), just to post a comment, after una blows up a comment section.
How come our “friends” the Saudi Royal Family refuse to dispose of the Houthi terrorists who are disrupting world
trade?
The Saudi’s certainly have the money and the military capacity to put the Houthi scum in their place.
The Saudi’s and the Houthis in Yemen share a border.
Maybe because it WAS doing so until Biden came in and withdrew our support for the Saudi military operations against the Houthis. My guess is they didn’t much care for our betrayal and are in no mood to get involved once again.
In a recent news article the administration was bragging about their response to the Iranian attacks on our personnel being proportionate. That won’t phase the jihadis in Iraq or Yemen. Expect the attacks to continue, and American lives to be wasted
Thanks Cowboy! That made me realize, proportionate response is a good way to lose.
It’s political theater for retards.
Good one Jeff 🙂
It is, AA. It takes a disproportionate response to stop attacks.(win). Even if I got my but kicked, they’d usually pick on someone else next time, and leave that crazy white boy be.
Maybe the Palestinians can make a children’s story out of this to teach the kiddies in the UN-funded schools:
“The Little Houthis who could”.
In other news …
… US Navy rescued eight Houthi sailors from the waters of the Red Sea after their raft floundered …
… all eight were welcomed aboard with hot tea, a warm meal, and a clean bed …
… the State Dept. immediately issued Visas, and promised to deliver each one a new smart phone, a credit card with $5000, a voucher for 40 days in a 5 star hotel in the resort of their choice, and a driver’s license in California …
… in a press conference with MSM, the State Dept could not confirm whether or not the Houthi’s have been warned of MAGA extremism or offered a cannabis dispensary card, but news outlets have promised to follow this developing story as a vast majority of Americans are worried about the safety of innocent Muslims in the systemically racist nation …
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… do I need a sarc alert … or has this already happened?! … inquiring minds want to know …
G-d help us all.
I hope these wars and conflicts escalate into raging war. We NEED wars right now on many levels. Iran needs to be spanked hard. And I mean militarily not diplomatically. I hope this all leads to the end of days on earth in this dispensation of time as predicted in the Holy Bible.