Not our problem.
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The Saudi scum deserve every bit of it.
The Bab al-Mendab between Africa and the Yemen has always been very strategic. For the Royal Navy Aden was a sort of Hong Kong / Gibraltar lynchpin harbor (errr, “harbour”). My brother’s service with the sixth fleet in the late 1950’s took his destroyer and him regularly to Djibouti, just opposite Yemen. The ghutra he brought back as a gift for me, age about six, probably led to my interest in the Middle East and university major.
The Saudis didn’t actually fight. They are not capable. They bought our stuff and paid some lackeys to use the hardware to act like they were engaging the houtis.
Predictable outcome.
I’d call it their Vietnam, but it is in their backyard.
They also hired Raytheon to build a refugee and terrorist proof fence along their Yemen border. Couple thousand dollars a mile. But liberals say it isn’t possible to build such a fence on our border, and Raytheon refused to bid on OUR border fence.
The Saudis still need to fight that war - it is right on their border.
Who will get the contract?
Only problem, Iran is backing the rebels and Iran now has a foothold on the very narrow entrance to the Red Sea (a potential problem for ship traffic to and from the Suez Canal).
You guys do realize that Al Queda and ISIS are trying to take over Yemen?