I think people need to reorient their thinking, it’s not sorry leadership when they get exactly what they want from a situation.
We spend billions each year on a Navy that can’t stop goat herders in flip flops from closing down a vital world shipping lane.
The only logical reason why is we are allowing it to go on because we want it to go on, we are shooting down $10,000 drones with Million Dollar missiles, ask yourself who benefits from that and it takes you a long way in determining why this nonsense is allowed to continue.
The longer this goes on, the more million-dollar missiles get shot, the million-dollar missiles we purchase and the more money the MIC makes.
If that was the case, we’d send several more AD destroyers and defend a lot more cargo ships, using up many more missiles in the process. It’s not like that would deter the Houthis in any fashion, and it would not affect the supply of Iranian weapons getting to the Houthis.
Actually taking out the Houthis would require much greater US expenditure for arms. This Administration has no appetite for that, and you know it. They are exactly what they appear: A bunch of old hippies and political hacks who are afraid to take on the problem head on, and don’t know what to do except kick the can down the road.