WASHINGTON August 30. 2024 (Saba) - The American website "Response Statecraft" dubbed Washington's approach towards Yemen as embodiment of strategic negligence.
It noted that it "will not succeed" and that it "costs a lot, endangering the lives of American soldiers stationed in the region." The website reported that the American useless approach in Yemen risks destabilizing Yemen and the region.
"Washington's refusal to recognize the Zionist war on Gaza as the real cause of the Yemeni attacks in the Red Sea prevents any hope of stopping these attacks," the website said.
What Washington should do is immediately to end its military activity against Yemen, pressure European and Asian countries to take a greater role in protecting their cargo ships, and stop supporting Israel's war on Gaza, in the hope that this will contribute to calming the growing tensions across the Middle East.
Three main problems in Washington's current strategy toward Yemen: First, it is devoid of concrete and achievable political goals, and burdened U.S. taxpayers with high costs.
Most of the Yemeni attacks occurred after the United States and its partners began their retaliatory campaign, showing that American efforts failed to achieve deterrence.
The second problem, according to the website, is that the continual exchange of military strikes between the United States and Yemeni forces threatens to further destabilize an already war-torn Yemen.
Third, US attacks threaten to exacerbate rising regional tensions and push the Middle East toward a full-scale regional war. If the U.S. goal is to convince Yemenis to stop their attacks, military force is never expected to achieve that goal.
There are no vital U.S. national interests at stake in Yemen that justify this level of military intervention or the waste of billions of dollars in U.S. taxpayer money.
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