Houthis Asked for War, and Now They Will Get It
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The Houthi Shi’as in Yemen have for the past six months been firing on ships — mostly commercial shipping — in the Red Sea, in an effort to cut off Israel’s maritime lifeline to Asia. They have been wildly successful; almost all of the traffic going from or to Asia via the Red Sea has had to be rerouted around the Horn of Africa. The American military has lobbed some rockets at the Houthis to discourage them from carrying on with these attacks, but it has been a drôle de guerre, a phony war, both too little and too late.












