Don't Attack Iran and Stop Bombing Yemen

Widening the war by attacking Iranian naval vessels isn’t going to resolve anything.

Shay Khatiri wants the U.S. to start a war with Iran because the pointless war against the Houthis is going nowhere:

Three consecutive U.S. administrations have failed to resolve the problem of Iranian-backed Houthi militia in Yemen—a failure demonstrated by the Iran-made drone that killed an Israeli in Tel Aviv this month, striking near the U.S. Consulate. The main cause of this American failure has been a lack of will, arising from fear that Iran would unleash its proxies on the U.S. It’s time to cut supply lines to the Houthis by imitating the Reagan administration, which sank roughly half of Iran’s navy in 1988, ending Iran’s assaults on oil tankers and convincing it to end the war with Iraq.

Widening the war by attacking Iranian naval vessels isn’t going to resolve anything. It would overtax limited U.S. resources and put more American military personnel at risk. It wouldn’t eliminate Houthi drone and missile capabilities. Unless the Iranian government chose to absorb U.S. attacks without retaliating, it would almost certainly mean war with Iran, whose drone and missile forces are formidable. U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria would be targeted again, and U.S. ships and bases in the Persian Gulf would likely come under attack. It is unlikely that the Houthis would sit idly by while all this is going on.