Houthis: what have two decades of regular US attacks on Yemen achieved?
The Guardian by Mohamad Bazzi 28 March 2025

Extracts:

• Take terrorists at their terror word — Let's dance to terrorists tune!

Trump is now repeating the same failed approach to Yemen as Biden and previous US presidents

In the Signal group chat messages revealed this week by the Atlantic’s editor, Trump cabinet members — who included the vice-president, JD Vance; the secretary of state, Marco Rubio; and the CIA director, John Ratcliffe — expressed disdain for European allies and debated the timing of US attacks on the Houthis

But none of these top officials raised the possibility that pushing for a renewed ceasefire in Gaza would remove the Houthis’s rationale for their aggression against commercial shipping in the Red Sea

The most senior officials on Trump’s national security team did not seem to consider the idea of taking the Houthi leaders at their word: that they would cease disrupting global trade once Israel stops bombing Gaza as they had done in January — Thanks! White House and Israel considering! your Gem of an advice!

Instead, the US security establishment continues bombing Yemen as it has done for two decades — and somehow hoping for a different outcome this time
*Mohamad Bazzi is the director of the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern studies and a journalism professor at New York University