It's Raining on the Houthis in Yemen

        Well, now, the rebellious terrorists on the Arabian peninsula are feeling the sting of reprisals. Reprisals are always a shock to instigators of rebellion. But in Yemen, the Houthis have held sway long enough that they are on everybody's radar these days, including Joe Biden's USA and MBS and his Saudis.

      So, it's raining various missiles onto Houthi concentrations, disabling lots of the arms so generously supplied by the Imams nearby; the Imams from Iran, source of so much discord brought about by their tunnel visions of a world to which they would like to return before they arrive in their heaven. You know: their heaven with its multitudes of young virgins waiting for the arrival of martyrs.

     So, the Houthis wanted a little publicity so they began targeting oil tankers traversing the narrow ocean channels on their way to markets in the Pacific Ocean(Japan and China to name a few). These tankers are defenseless leviathans built for bulk liquid cargoes. No antiaircraft weapons; no on board gun crews, not much more than navigation instruments and one or two lifeboats for the few crew members(cook, quartermaster, captain, navigator, chief engineer/systems monitor). In a nutshell: helpless.

     So, Houthis being terrorists, they decide to expand their reach with Iranian weapons put to their use. A missile here, a missile there, and we have tanker traffic diverted to the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. Now governments are being besieged by Big Oil: Hey, our taxes pay your bills; we expect our taxes to fund the Navy and provided protection around the world. When will that happen? Result: two carrier groups head east and deliver some Springtime warmth to the Houthis: long established targeting data is opened aboard the carriers; the target data is uploaded to the strike force aircraft, and they are armed and launched on a mission to destroy Houthi/Iranian supplied military assets. Several days of air attacks have left an impression in Sana and Baghdad. Anybody listening? NO, not really; the Imams are busy plotting against Israel, stoking fears in the region. Nothing new here; same old, same old, since 1948.