Playing defense against Islamic terrorists doesn’t work. The terrorists, at least initially, don’t need to win, they just need to take your society hostage and force you to constantly be on the defensive. Parts of your economy get shut down and you’re always on alert.
The Houthi Jihadists in Yemen, backed by Iran, have taken a crucial waterway hostage. Biden responded by playing defense, responding to Houthi attacks on shipping but without making a concerted effort to take out the terrorist infrastructure.
And so here we are.
Biden’s Red Sea Coalition responds defensively to attacks on shipping.
U.S. Navy helicopters returned fire and sank three small boats carrying Houthi militants in the Red Sea on Sunday, after U.S. warships responded to a distress call from a merchant vessel, military officials said.
A Maersk container ship, the Singapore-flagged Hangzhou, issued a distress call at about 6:30 a.m. local time, U.S. Central Command said in a statement on Sunday. The merchant vessel said four small boats were attacking it.
“The small boats, originating from Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen, fired crew-served and small-arms weapons at the Maersk Hangzhou, getting to within 20 meters of the vessel, and attempted to board the vessel,” Central Command said.
Helicopters from two U.S. ships — the USS Eisenhower and the USS Gravely — responded and issued verbal calls to the small boats, U.S. officials said.
While the helicopters were “in the process of issuing verbal calls to the small boats, the small boats fired upon the U.S. helicopters with crew served weapons and small arms,” Central Command said.
Service members aboard the Navy helicopters returned fire and sank three of the four small boats, killing the crews, U.S. officials said. The fourth boat fled the area.
Read between the lines here. US Naval personnel were only allowed to fire on the Houthis when fired on.
They did not have authorization to fire when the Houthis were firing on the Maersk Hangzhou or on what were clearly enemy vessels, but only defensively in response to attacks on the US Navy.
Is it any wonder that Maersk is calling it a day?
Shipping and logistics behemoth A.P. Moller-Maersk said Tuesday that it’s suspending its shipping operations through the Red Sea until further notice as it investigates an attack on one of its ships by Iran-backed Houthi rebels this past weekend.
Biden has demonstrated that he’ll only react defensively to clear attacks. That’s not going to secure the Red Sea for shipping.
So Biden has handed the Houthis a victory. They don’t need to actually seize ships, they just need to demonstrate that the area is unsafe for vessels (unless they covertly pay protection money to the terrorists) and that America isn’t going to make the threat go away any time soon.
This is how we lose and the terrorists win.
Big Dude says
Why don’t we just become a sharia country
Make sure Mr. Trump is locked away in prison
Make sure all the Jews are exiled (rassen schande)
Make sure that fundamentalist christians are put into a ghetto
My bet .. Taiwan in 2 weeks
And … Hunter.. escapes scott free (but maybe leaves his crack at the white house)
Biden found to be on the take with a variety of people in the CCP and well as on the take with Albania (where he is part of the Albanian freedom fighters, they being located in Santa Monica, because Albania exiled them)
Oh boy
Weakness all around
But it’s ok
We have an election year coming up
Anyone want to be on whether the 50 states will be one country, or two, or three (the Islamic Republic of America.. run by Snackbar)
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden made does everything he’s capable of to fund that hostile and vicious Islamic tyrannical regime of Iran, which make it possible for them to support and supplies to Houthis and well as other murderous and destructive jihad terror entities
That horrible and wicked Biden, with his desire further funds that aggressive and hostile Islamic tyrannical regime of Iran in its vicious schemes to destroy the Jewish state of Israel, be it through the madness of constructing and using nuclear weapons or by other means, as in using its stooge jihad terror /murder organizations, as Houthis Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad and so forth.
Joe Biden is calamity for commerce for the shipping lane through the Red Sea and the Suez Canal as well as a calamity for economy of the United States.
What more Biden by his national and international policies is a disaster for America, as disaster for the countries of Europe and disaster for the entire Middle East and a disaster for the world.
Joe Biden is the epitome of personification of the world “Catastrophe.”
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden is so very weak and feeble in body that he can’t even walk up a flight of steps into Air Force One without stumbling or walk on a platform without falling down on the road.
It must be that eating ice cream is the only thing that Biden does really know how to do well.
Likewise, Biden is very feeble in mind. For by his many fool statements his had said exposes this.
Maybe ice cream eating fits his mentally level. Likewise, Biden is so feeble in mind that there in no way he can handle the many serious problems in the national and international level in any competent way.
medaber_emet says
Lets go Brandon
SJ says
Hugh and the rest of the U.S. policymakers MUST start monitoring the U.S. State Department and now even the Department of Homeland Security. Look and see what they’re doing and who’s running them! I don’t think I should have to keep repeating these things and it’s difficult if not impossible to contact anyone that matters, so in a nutshell our government agencies have been compromised and Osama bin Laden would be proud. Help me and America by exposing what’s going on there if you want to keep America and not lose it to Islamic Radicals Plus!
terry says
Where Islamist and Marxist are concerned, since Nixon, accepting Reagan, the Uni-party in the District of Crooks has allowed them to gain and win- but lies never stand and God’s Truth does. This is seen in their confusion and confounding. Like all criminal organizations they turn and rend one another!