© US Central Command/Screengrab/ReutersSmoke rises from an explosion after a projectile hit a group of buildings at an undisclosed location after Trump launched military strikes against Yemen’s Houthis • March 15, 2025
Last year, candidate Trump strongly criticized the Biden Administration's obsession with foreign interventionism to the detriment of our problems at home. In an interview at the Libertarian National Convention, he criticized Biden's warmongering to podcaster Tim Pool, saying:
"You can solve problems over a telephone. Instead they start dropping bombs. Recently, they're dropping bombs all over Yemen. You don't have to do that."Yet once in office, Trump turned to military force as his first option.
Since the Israel/Hamas ceasefire plan negotiated by President Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff, Yemen has left Red Sea shipping alone. However, after Israel implemented a total blockade of humanitarian relief to citizens of Gaza last week, Houthi leaders threatened to again begin blocking Israel's Red Sea shipping activities.
That was enough for President Trump to drop bombs and launch missiles for hours, killing several dozen Yemeni civilians - including women and children - in the process.
After the attack, Trump not only threatened much more force to be used against Yemen, but he also threatened Iran. His National Security Advisor Mike Waltz added that the US may start bombing Iranian ships in the area, a move that would certainly lead to a major Middle East war.
Like recent Presidents Bush and Obama, candidate Trump promised peace after four years of Joe Biden's warmongering and World War III brinkmanship. There is little doubt that with our war-weary population this proved the margin of his victory. Unfortunately, as with Bush and Obama, now that he is President, he appears to be heading down a different path.
The Republican Party is gradually becoming a pro-peace, America first party, but the warmongers and neocons of the old line in the Party are not going to let go so easily. Unfortunately many of these dead-enders have found their way to senior positions in Trump's Administration, with voices of restraint and non-intervention nearly nowhere in sight among his top tier of advisors.
To solve the Yemen problem we must understand it: Russian and Chinese ships, for example, are not being threatened because they are not enabling the Israeli demolition of Gaza. The slaughter there has been facilitated with US money and US weapons. It is the US doing Israel's bidding both in Gaza and in the Red Sea that is painting a target on us and unnecessarily putting our troops at risk of retaliation.
The US government, starting with Biden and continuing now with Trump, seems eager to make this our war even though, as Rep. Thomas Massie pointed out over the weekend, Red Sea shipping is of minor importance to the US economy.
In a real "America first" foreign policy we would be following the Russian and Chinese lead and staying out of the conflict. It's not our war. End US military involvement in the Middle East and our troubles disappear. It really is that simple.
Reader Comments
The world would be so much more peaceful if both these countries just pulled their heads in and left the rest of us alone.
Who are the Houthis? Who created them? Who armed them? Organic or engineered?
We assume that the Houthis are part of the Islamic resistance and support of Palestinians who are being genocided. However, we know that other Islamic resistance like ISIS and Hamas was created and funded by the CIA or Mossad. What was the intent of creating this enemy? To create conflict that justified Israeli and USA military action.
And I will share it here.
"ask not what your country can do for you.
but what you and your country can do for Israel."