The targeting of another U.S.-owned commercial ship Wednesday shows the militant group remains intent on continuing its attacks in the face of multiple rounds of U.S. military airstrikes.
The Houthis launched anti-ship ballistic missiles at the U.S.-owned, flagged and operated commercial ship Maersk Detroit as it was transiting the Gulf of Aden, according to a statement from the U.S. Central Command. The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Gravely shot down two missiles and a third fell into the water. There were no indications of damage or injuries in the attack.
The U.S. military has been conducting airstrikes against the Houthis to degrade their capabilities since Jan.11, after several weeks of attacks on commercial ships by the militant group.
It doesn’t prevent terrorism, but where the hits land it does usually stop whatever is going on.
In the very short term yeah, but in the longer term it INCREASES terrorism by making it easier for terrorists to radicalize people who lost loved ones.
Buddy, we got enough bombs here to light up every one of these Houthis.
So does Saudi Arabia, ask them how their bombing of the Houthis went. We have historical data on this.
Not without killing a shitload of innocent civilians, which is THE most effective way to create MORE terrorism.
What’s the current civilian death count with these strikes? Like average
Innocent civilians? You’re just talking out of your ass now. These strikes are on launch sites not a town square.
By hitting launch sites innocent ships can pass without being attacked and killed
Create more terrorism where? These people are in increasingly small, llittle spit of sand that nobody gives a fuck about. And if the people there want the Houthis in charge, then they can share the sand with them. The walls will continue closing in and the bombs will continue falling wherever rockets are coming from.
^This is what a villain would say
Actually a villian will subjugate women and minorites, force them to wear black robes and burkas in the fucking desert sun, and then launch rockets at civilians left and right. That’s your people! You should go fucking live with them.
Why are you arguing that genocide is moral if it is done to an oppressed people?
The taliban is an evil governing party. Does that mean we can murder all Afghans? The answer is no
By that same logic, it is immaterial if Hamas is evil; that does not justify the genocide of Palestinians.
All this does is create more anti-Zionist Palestinians from the survivors and make a permanent peace deal even less likely. Which is wrong, and is grounds for the imprisonment of Netanyahu and the ban of Likud
It’s funny because the Houtis are a mountain tribe, just like the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Not even an International cohalition and over a hundred thousand “boots on the ground” managed to stop the Taliban for good and you think that “this time is different” and bombing alone a similar tribe will do it???!
Unlike the Taliban, nobody cares about “defeating” the Houthis, though. Taking away their ability to harass shipping is all that matters, and that can be done by monitoring and bombing launch sites.
If the USA didn’t care about the optics, they could just flatten the Houthi launch infrastructure tomorrow, then smack down anything that they tried to rebuild. Ballistic and cruise missiles are large and hard to hide, and they have to be imported from Iran.
It’s not like Hamas with their homemade unguided rocket barrages into a populated area, ships are small and the ocean is huge. You need a decent missile to actually hit anything.