Tom Cotton: Biden's Yemen Strikes Just Targeting 'Goat Herders'
Tough-guy Republican once criticized Biden for going "out of his way to avoid Iranian casualties.”
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., the likely future “Fox & Friends” host, criticized President Joe Biden for not going far enough with his strikes in Yemen, mocking the Arab population there as a “bunch of goat herders.”
Cotton said Biden’s strikes against the Houthis are “very limited pinprick strikes against a bunch of goat herders,” according to The New York Times.
Cotton, who is from the same school as fellow tough guy Sen. Lindsey Graham, said earlier in the war that “Israel will need reinforcements in this war. President Biden should follow President Nixon’s example from the Yom Kippur War when faced with another surprise attack on Israel fifty years ago this weekend: send everything that shoots on everything that flies.”
He once criticized President Joe Biden for appearing to “go out of his way to avoid Iranian casualties.”
Biden admitted to a reporter at the White House last week that the airstrikes against Yemen will not deter the Houthis from carrying out attacks in the Res Sea, while continuing to order strikes without congressional approval.
Nasser Kanani, a spokesman from the Iranian Foreign Ministry, called the U.S.-led airstrikes against Houthis in Yemen a gross “violation of international laws” and an “act of terrorism.”
Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree, the Houthi military spokesman, said in a statement obtained by the Associated Press after the attack that the country’s armed forces will “continue to prevent all ships heading to Israeli ports from navigating in the (Red Sea) until they bring in the food and medicine that our steadfast brothers in the Gaza Strip need.”
The U.S. is no stranger to destroying Yemen – alas through its own “proxies” in the region. The Biden administration, in 2022, was a major arms dealer for Saudi Arabia and UAE to continue their bombings.
Yemen is one of the poorest countries on earth and the Iranian-backed Houthis control much of the country’s northern region. NPR noted that Houthi leaders said they will continue to carry out attacks against ships with ties to Israel and consider themselves part of the “axis of resistance.”
Yemen’s civil war started in 2014, when the Houthis, who were ruling large sections of Yemen for over 1,000 years, overthrew the unelected president put in control by the Saudis. The Houthis eventually took control of Sana’a, and then seized the presidential palace.
The Saudi-backed coalition is concerned that Houthi rule in Yemen would mean rival Iran would gain a foothold at the border with Saudi Arabia.
TRENDPOST: Gerald Celente spoke with Judge Andrew Napolitano about Biden’s order to strike the Houthis without going through Congress, and the Napolitano called the airstrikes illegal. “Barack Obama used drones to kill two Americans Anwar al-Awlaki and his son (in 2011), Donald Trump used a drone to kill an Iranian general going to have lunch with an Iraqi general (Qasem Soleimani) in Iraq, a supposed ally of ours, in order to talk peace between the two nations. Presidents just love to kill and get away with it. Trump, of course is his own case, Trump thinks he can kill domestically and get away with it, but that’s another argument for another time that’s not even worth refuting, it’s so absurd. Presidents have used the War Powers Resolution to kill whomever they want outside of the United States.”