re: Vance On Strikes In Yemen: ‘We are making a mistake…’

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Bomb them back to the Stone Age then leave.

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They already are there.

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So the guy is hiding he has cancer and just clocks out for several days without notifying the president while running attacks.

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Trump did more than simply criticize Austin. He criticized Biden for getting involved in the conflict in Yemen.

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He criticized Biden for getting involved in the conflict in Yemen.

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That's not how I took it.

I interpreted the post to mean that if Biden hadn't been a feckless, dickless, isolationist pussy we wouldn't have to be bombing them AGAIN.

Which was true then and now.

As I have posted many times before, this isn't difficult. It's basic 3rd grade playground bully psychology.

If they sense weakness or a reluctance to engage, they will attack. And they will do so, increasingly, until they are stopped. They are like children in that they will press forward and test until you show them the limit.

All of the Huckster Carlson populist isolationist nonsense just makes it worse.

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All of the Huckster Carlson populist isolationist nonsense just makes it worse.

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Each to his own. More and more Americans of all political persuasions seem to find it preferable to being fed the same neocon/neolib B.S. that keeps the United States locked in a permanent state of Middle Eastern warfare.

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Yes criticized Biden for Afghanistan and Iran.

He did that a lot actually. As noted by what you posted.

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Yes. Yes he did. And rightly so. And Trump likewise criticized Biden’s bombing strategy in Yemen. Which Trump now seems to emulate.

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lobbing missiles into the deserts of Yemen ain’t doing a damn thing to protect international shipping lanes.

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Short of taking our ships out of said lanes, what's the alternative?

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More and more Americans of all political persuasions seem to find it preferable to being fed the same neocon/neolib B.S. that keeps the United States locked in a permanent state of Middle Eastern warfare.

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That's because more and more Americans are becoming enthralled with the entertainment of conspiracy porn populism and more and more Americans are too young to remember anything about WWII.

Not that that was the only time we've been stubbornly resistant to common sense regarding foreign policy. Pretty much the last 80 years or so have really been the only time we haven't pretended that basic playground bully psychology can be safely ignored.

It worked o.k. until WWI, but only because Britain played the world police role that the US has played after WWII. They protected shipping lanes and kept the world's Bad Actors from flexing too much.

Sorry to tell all of the Huckster Carlson parrots in the world, but somebody has got to do it. Somebody has got to keep order.

And better us than anyone else. Because if it's us, we drive rather than ride.

Iran is doing its best to get hold of nuclear weapons. And the last time we were attacked on our soil it was by proxy terrorists funded by Middle Eastern governments in the same way that Iran is funding Hamas and other terror groups currently.

What if instead of just flying planes filled with passengers into the WTC and the Pentagon they had a nuclear weapon or biological dirty bomb on each plane?

What if the next terror attack comes in the form of a suicide bomber setting off an atomic bomb in Times Square or downtown L.A. or Chicago?

If you don't think Iran would arrange that by proxy if they could, I don't know what to tell you.

I also don't know what to tell you if you don't find it significant that Iran, N. Korea, China, and Russia are all buddying up to each other in Ukraine. The last time all the dictatorial governments got together we had WWII. And Iran may well be the most dangerous of all four if they get nukes, because they are an extreme religious theocracy. They will do things the others won't.

So sure, if you want to invoke the popularity of the ideology, go ahead. Usually what that tends to mean is that it's a lowest-common-denominator idea that is emotionally attractive rather than the smart thing to do.

And pursuant to this question, I would argue that history proves that to be the case.

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Find another route then

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Oh, you sweet, stupid summer child!

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the other route is around south africa.

this is like people attaching ship on the way to the Panama canal.

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Analysts suggest that while the Red Sea is crucial for global trade, the effects on the U.S. economy are comparatively minimal. For instance, Mark Hopkins, an economist at Moody’s Analytics, noted that such disruptions are "unlikely to have any significant impact on the U.S. economy."