There was a time when Republicans were proud of our sailors and Marines fighting Muslim pirates. As far back as 1801-1805 Thomas Jefferson — of all Presidents not exactly the most warmongering — sent them to end the Barbary Pirate plague off “the shores of Tripoli.”
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That time some 300 captured American hostages were freed and the Tripoli government overthrown.
The situation with the Houthis is not exactly the same … but not essentially different either! We are not sending soldiers to fight a WAR in Yemen but simply trying to stop missile attacks on crucial shipping through the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden — which the Iranian Mullah theocracy / dictatorship has helped finance.
Trump of course now criticizes Biden’s decision. This is nothing but craven, cynical opportunism, irresponsibility and cowardice. Trump just wants to portray Biden as a warmonger and himself as a “peacemaker” — especially in Ukraine where his buddy Putin (aided by Putin’s buddies in Iran) are waging a bloody aggressive war. Trump thinks we all have forgotten when he supported Saudi Arabia’s real war against the Houthis, providing the jets & bombs that attacked Houthi villages.
One wonders what the Orange “Peacemaker” would do about Houthi attacks on American and international shipping? NOTHING ???
