Marwan Al-Ghafouri writes about: “The White House’s belief that it can solve all its problems through missiles.”
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The White House believes that it can solve all its problems through missiles.
It’s Yemen’s turn now after many other Arab-Islamic capitals. Every time, the enlightened American finds himself unable to grasp the national interest of his country behind all these wars. Why did you move from Afghanistan to Iraq? Asks Michael Moore, a senior American official. The answer: We did not find worthwhile targets in Afghanistan.
The matter is more complicated than that, but the American maze has taken this horrifying caricature form.
What does America want to achieve by defeating Sanaa? Nothing. Biden’s war on Gaza is approaching its fourth month, turning America into a rogue state in the eyes of the world. Biden covers his war on Gaza with open talk about a fictitious project called the two-state solution. Is Sanaa attacked to divert attention from the final stage of the Torah War on Gaza? To impose its will on the sea according to its perception of power? The people of the mountain know their sea better than others. The war on Gaza has shown that missiles alone are not enough to impose one’s will.
Why doesn’t China launch missiles at Sanaa, as it has the largest share of goods passing through the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait? China is an independent country, governed by traditions and institutions, not gangs like the White House.
Does America have a strategy to get out of the “Bab-el-Mandeb crisis” that it resorted to under pressure from gangs? I don’t think so. If the Houthis wanted to completely disrupt maritime traffic, they could do so, at least by spreading panic and turning the narrow sea route into a highly risky passage.
You cannot impose your will on the world just because you have “great missiles,” to use Trump’s expression. America, as usual, has failed to appear as a mature state using force to promote global peace. It stands alone in the United Nations among a sea of countries calling for an end to the war, voting with a group of imaginary states in favor of the continuation of the death machine. What national interest will America gain from the “genocide” in Gaza? And what does it want from bombing Sanaa other than confirming that the shadow gangs are in service!
In the movie “The Last Three Days,” a man goes to an expert in prison escape methods and asks him to save his wife, who is sentenced to death. Then he asks him, “Where do I take her after her release?” The knowledgeable man answers, “To a country that America knows nothing about, to Yemen.”
America went to Yemen, a country it knows nothing about, and dared to attack it with missiles, without considering whether its shells would awaken a danger from its grave. Especially when Yemen sleeps on mountain chains overlooking a sea that is only 20 miles wide. And at this hour, America is ostracized, waiting for its leaders to be tried for war crimes (the first trial session against Biden and Blinken will be held before the end of this month).
*Yemeni journalist, poet, writer, and novelist.
taken from the author’s page on the X.
