The United States and Great Britain have launched a military operation against the Yemeni Houthis. Airstrikes were carried out on the city of Hodeidah on the coast of the Red Sea and Sanaa, the capital of Yemen.

Can attacking the capital of Yemen help to stop the Houthis? 

Speaking to Ednews about the subject, Peter Tase, the founder and CEO of the Azerbaijan-US Economic and Education Council, the representative of BAMF in the US, explained that US and its allies should take more serious military actions against terrorist groups in the Red Sea. 

“The military response of United States and its Allies (Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Netherlands, and United Kingdom) is a limited action with precision guided munitions that does not necessarily eliminate the subsequent Houthi attacks against ships in the Red Sea. Such surgical strikes embolden more the enemy and gives them more courage to undertake terrorist attacks in other European cities. The civil war in Yemen begun in 2011 with a popular uprising against its long standing ruthless president Ali Abdullah Saleh. During all these years major International actors have been missing and silent from solving the pressing humanitarian issues emanating from Yemen’s Civil War. 

Obviously, US and other members of UN Security Counsul must take more convincing and persuasive military actions against terrorist groups in Yemen, they should even strike the patrons of Houthi group in Yemen. The recent strikes illustrate the fact that Middle East War is widening across the region.

The United States and UK will not send boots to the ground in Yemen. Apparently, Afghanistan pull out from Afghanistan on August 30, 2021 was a terrible recipe of disaster and Washington is very hesitant to enter in a similar imbroglio in Yemen. while the pyrrhic airlift images from Kabul are still vivid in the minds of International audiences and a sad chapter in the Modern history of US Armed Forces”.

Farid Akhund