President Joe Biden delivers remarks at a Black History Month reception, Monday, February 27, 2023, in the East Room of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)
At the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, Daniel McAdams calls Joe Biden’s foreign policy “If it’s broke, don’t fix it.” McAdams’s assessment comes after Biden’s own assessment of whether or not his administration’s strikes on Yemen’s Houthis were working was, “Well, when you say working, are they stopping the Houthis? No. Are they gonna continue? Yes.”
McAdams wrote in response:
The exchange perfectly defines the Biden Administration’s foreign policy: “Is our policy working? No. But keep it up, man!”
What is that old saying about the definition of insanity?
At least six rounds of US airstrikes have failed to intimidate the Houthis in Yemen, who have – contrary to the mainstream media – notannounced a blockade of the Red Sea but merely interdiction of ships going to and from Israeli ports in response to Israel’s ongoing slaughter in Gaza. To date, the Houthis have neither killed anyone nor have they sunk a single tanker.
Their intent seems to be to raise the cost of shipping in the region, thus far with great success.
Several shipping companies – COSCO, Shell, and others (“The Danish shipping giant Maersk, German company Hapag-Lloyd, and French company CMA CGM have also suspended Red Sea transits.”) – have halted all operations to and from Israeli ports due to the risks imposed by the Houthis in the region. One Israeli port has seen an 85 percent drop in economic activity since the Houthis announced their policy.
In short, the Houthis in what Western capitals like to scoff at as a country stuck in the Middle Ages have designed and executed a sophisticated policy that has proven enormously successful according to its stated goals, while the United States has designed and executed a policy (“bombs away”) that they admit has been an abject failure.
But what do the Washington foreign policy geniuses do when they fail? They double down!
With Biden’s Yemen airstrike policy a loser, he has decided to escalate the US war on Yemen and he has no interest at all in Congress getting involved. The Washington Post reported on Saturday that the Biden Administration is now preparing for a “sustained campaign” against Yemen, one of the poorest countries on earth but one that nevertheless defeated a rich and powerful Saudi Arabia armed to the teeth with the best US weapons money can buy.
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