Funny how so many leftist groups get their panties in a wad when Islamic extremist groups are on the receiving end of military strikes which they earned, but, not so much when the Islamic extremist terrorist groups are attacking
Peace expert says U.S. strikes on Houthis in Yemen marks ‘very dangerous moment in the Middle East’
One day after the U.S. and the U.K. launched retaliatory strikes against Houthi militant locations in Yemen, President Biden said the U.S. is prepared to take action again if the Iran-backed rebels continue to attack ships in the Red Sea.
“We will make sure that we respond to the Houthis if they continue with this outrageous behavior along with our allies,” Biden told reporters traveling with him in Pennsylvania on Friday. (snip)
“I think the hope was there would be other ways to deter Houthi attacks on Red Sea targets,” Mona Yacoubian, vice president of the Middle East and North Africa Center at the U.S. Institute of Peace, told Yahoo News. “It was the significant barrage of missiles and drones on January 9 that finally gave the U.S. — from its perspective — no option but to respond directly by attacking Houthi targets in Yemen.” (snip)
Do you think the U.S. and U.K. strikes will lead to an escalation of a wider war in the Middle East?
Yacoubian: I believe we are in the throes of a much broader region-wide conflict that has directly drawn in the United States. The Houthis are now vowing revenge on Americans. Honestly, [the Houthis are] in a position where they can sort of control a bit of the pace of escalation. They simply need to say, ‘Hey, we’re here, still standing’ and undertake additional strikes.This will once again put the United States in the difficult position of having to then escalate its own military intervention as a way of seeking to deter Houthi military action. And before you know it, I think we’re off on a whole new escalatory cycle that very much encumbers the United States.
The US Institute Of Peace was actually established by Congress, and is supposedly non-partisan. And they aren’t wrong about being dangerous, but, the US and UK can kick the crap out of the Houthis if we so choose. If Iran wants to get frisky, well, they’ll get smacked around as well.
What happens now?
Yacoubian: We’re at a very dangerous moment in the Middle East. Unfortunately, I think the kind of rising tensions at this flashpoint in the Red Sea have now tipped the region into the broader conflict that many fear could happen.I think the big question at this point is going to be how to move from a situation of escalating tensions and violence, to one in which the United States can restore deterrence and deescalate very, very dangerous tensions before others end up joining the fight.
They seem very concerned that the terrorist group is on the receiving end of FAFO. They weren’t that concerned when Hamas attacked Israel, at least not about Israel and all the Jews killed. Just that Palestinians, who support Hamas and are so extremist that no Arab country will take them in, would be on the receiving end of FAFO. There were no articles about Hamas attacking Israel. No tweets. And these peace experts seem to want to blame the US and UK, not the Houthis and Iran. The Peace Institute folks seem to think that Israel and the US, along with all those attacked by the Iranian backed Houthis should simply just take it.
Mr Teach misinterprets the article to suggest that the US Institute for Peace is worried about the well-being of Houthi rebels, typing: They seem very concerned that the terrorist group is on the receiving end of FAFO (fuck around and find out).
It seems more likely Yacoubian was telling the truth in worrying about a broader war.
Yacoubian offered no sympathy for the Houthis.
But Mr Teach has a narrative to promote…
You have a narrative to promote also and you do it with every comment. Or is it only bad when somebody else is doing it? You should be very happy the moslims are winning in real life. I never even heard of the houthis until two weeks ago. I’m sure you did because you’re very well versed in Mohammedism. You probably know all the sects and all that interesting Islamophilia stuff.
Geno the Commie typed: I never even heard of the houthis
You shouldn’t be so proud of your ignorance.
How are the moslims (sic) winning in real life?
Mr Teach’s promoted narrative is that everyone not supporting the extermination of all Muslims is anti-Israel. Did you even read the interview with Mona Yacoubian? She didn’t in any way offer sympathy or support for the Houthis.
You seem to have only bluster and bile.
Rimjob can’t help it.
He’s obsessed.
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Chicken Little Man
You copied: “They seem very concerned that the terrorist group is on the receiving end of FAFO.”
And didn’t quote the explanation:
They weren’t that concerned when Hamas attacked Israel, at least not about Israel and all the Jews killed. Just that Palestinians, who support Hamas and are so extremist that no Arab country will take them in, would be on the receiving end of FAFO. There were no articles about Hamas attacking Israel. No tweets. And these peace experts seem to want to blame the US and UK, not the Houthis and Iran. The Peace Institute folks seem to think that Israel and the US, along with all those attacked by the Iranian backed Houthis should simply just take it.
You then claimed.
“Yacoubian offered no sympathy for the Houthis.”
I think it was Sherlock Holmes who solved a crime by noting that the dogs had not howled…
Meaningless drivel…
Teach’s opinions are not evidence of anything.
Rimjob: Meaningless drivel…
is all that you type.
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Chicken Little Man
You are really slow.
It’s not Teach opinion.
It’s the lack of anything bad said about the Houthis that proves the bias and worthlessness of the “Peace” Institute.
Chicken Little Man
You are really slow.
It’s not Teach opinion.
It’s the lack of anything bad said about the Houthis that proves the bias and worthlessness of the “Peace” Institute.
US hits the Houthis again!! Do you believe President Biden is doing the right thing?
For a so-called President who doesn’t even know his SecDef was missing for 4 days nothing is believable.
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….proving that those hired for reasons other than skill or expertise aren’t that important anyway.
That because organizations like “peace institute” only exist in the USA for the purpose of sponging money from the federal treasury. They are a typical activist group. It is a hive of anti-Americanism. Whatever the Americans are doing, they are against it, no matter which party is in power. In their eyes, the only thing Americans can do right, is give their vast treasury away to other countries (i.e. wealthy connected people in other countries. The sort of people who fund Peace Institute). It is just a coincidence that they are one of those places where democrats hide out during Republican administrations. It’s all about drawing a paycheck not about any moral standards.
lol “Whatever the Americans are doing they are against” ???? Sounds like Teach him self since Biden was elected POTUS
Wasn’t Mr Teach just a few days ago quite excited about President Biden bringing the USA into WW3?
What the Houthis are doing is demonstrating to us that the Islamists are not Western civilization classical liberals. Sadly, many, many Westerners seem unable to understand or comprehend that message.
It’s called intersectionality, in which every self-designated victim group have decided that they should be strong allies with every other self-designated victim group, which leads to such nonsense as “Queers for Palestine,” even though, were those queers living under an Islamist government, they would be, to various degrees, oppressed, discriminated against, jailed, or even executed. We see feminist groups supporting the very people who would make them into second-class citizens — or subjects — again. Every time you say to yourself, “They can’t really be this stupid,” they wind up doing something even more stupid.
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