What are the reasons for the US failures in Iraq and Afghanistan then? And the Soviets in Afghanistan and the US in Vietnam?
Maybe it’s very difficult to impose your government on an unwilling and armed population.
Also the headline to this article stinks: “the Houthis are”. All of them? All the Houthi people are selling arms on Ex Twitter?
Well I would say those situations are a little different, and mixed outcomes. In the US cases, they won the tactical battles, but eventually tapped out and left. Though in Iraq’s case, they still have a functional government. And I wouldn’t put the failures on US generals who are there due to their direct relation with the government leaders.
At any rate, the articles I read (from probably 4 years ago) highlighted the frustration of the Saudi Governments actions in Yemen and lack of progress, The blame was put on commanders who weren’t very good and an army that wasn’t very disciplined. Blame was highlighted on a command structure who was in place for who they are, not if they were good generals.
That’s very true. It is nigh impossible to completely eradicate an insurgency.
Jpost refers to it as a logo.
Many of the images of sale weapons have the Houthi logo attached, which contains the words “God is the greatest, death to America, death to Israel, a curse on the Jews, and victory to Islam.”
Houthi are a people.
The headline is kind of racist. In the way that the Ansar Allah slogans are racist.
so it should probably read “Ansar Allah are selling machine guns on Xitter”?
Yes, or “Houthi”. The Houthis is as racist as if they said “the Jews are selling”.
I hear all sorts of excuses about how headlines are different and standards don’t apply. I never pay any attention to those.
One the one hand, if those are actual weapons dealers who actually deliver the product as described that would seem to put them well above a lot of what gets a blue check on twitter these days; ‘merchant of death’ is honest work compared to crypto scammer; on the other hand I’m curious how the State and Treasury departments react to getting a poop emoji in response to probing questions about you and your pals on the entity list.
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