After months of ignoring attacks by Houthi rebels against Israel, U.S. naval vessels and international cargo ships, the United States and our allies responded yesterday by bombing 60 targets in Yemen.
How did we get here? Here are some points to consider.
- The attack is estimated to have cost the United States at least $100 million. Reports indicate that five people were killed. So that's $20 million per enemy. That sounds like another "war" we don't intend to win.
- What exactly did we bomb? How is it that we hit 60 targets and only eliminated five terrorists?
- Biden did not get congressional approval for these strikes. Democrats and Republicans are objecting, saying he violated the Constitution and that there should have been a vote by our elected representatives. How in a "democracy" (I know we are a constitutional republic) can we hold people accountable if we don't know how they would have voted on such a serious matter?
- When bombs fall, it means policy has failed. So, what policy failed? Well, the Saudis were at war with the Houthis, but Joe Biden accused the Saudis of indiscriminately killing civilians and cut off support for their efforts. So, now it's apparently our problem. Biden also removed the Houthis from the list of designated terrorist organizations.
- Where are the Houthis getting the weapons to attack Saudi Arabia, Israel and us? Iran, which Biden started appeasing and giving money to as soon as he got into office.
- At the same time, Biden is also trying to restrain Israel in its war against Hamas. Yet, even after Israel has been aggressively fighting for three months, Hamas is still firing rockets at Israel. So is Hezbollah. Where are they getting their weapons? Iran.
- In other words, Biden is funding Iran, which is funding terrorists to attack Israel and us. And then we have to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to take out the Iranian-backed terrorists that Biden funded. Where in all of this madness is America's interest being advanced, defended or promoted in any way whatsoever?
- Why did Biden do all of these things that strengthened Iran, brought us to the moment of the October 7th massacre and to the point of war in Yemen? Because he doesn't understand the world and the enemies we're up against. Robert Gates, Obama's secretary of defense, tried to warn us.
- Mottos tell you a lot about a people. We have a lot of mottos in America – "Live free or die, "Don't tread on me," "One Nation Under God" and "In God We Trust." But who are the Houthis? Well, here's the official Houthi motto: "Allahu Akbar! Death to America! Death to Israel! Curse the Jews! Victory for Islam!"
- Our ailing secretary of defense, our hyper-partisan, pro-Iranian national security adviser and other misguided leftists in the Biden Administration see that motto and laugh it off. It is beyond their comprehension that when evil people say evil things, they actually mean it.
By the way, when the White House finally decided to inform the American people about these strikes, it came in the form of a written statement only, not from Joe Biden speaking directly to the American people. Curiously, Biden hasn't been seen for days.
As the New York Post put it, if we can't trust this White House to be honest about the health of the secretary of defense, how can we trust it to be honest about the health of our 81 year-old president?
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