{"id":12894,"date":"2024-02-13T19:03:22","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T19:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12894"},"modified":"2024-02-13T19:03:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T19:03:22","slug":"us-now-pursuing-least-bad-option-in-confronting-houthis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12894","title":{"rendered":"US Now Pursuing \u2018Least Bad\u2019 Option in Confronting Houthis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;\u201cObviously, in some ways, deterrence has improved, because we have seen reduced attacks, but actually that\u2019s only happened because we\u2019ve degraded their capabilities \u2014 there will be more strikes, I\u2019m almost certain of that,\u201d Kearns said.&#8221;&#8230;&#8221;The US is now attacking in real-time as militants in Yemen mobilize missiles for attacks on commercial vessels. So far, it seems the military response has only emboldened the Houthis. \u201cIt is an honor for our people to be in such a confrontation with these evil forces,\u201d Abdul Malik al-Houthi, the head of the militant group, said in a speech on Thursday, citing the US, the UK and Israel.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/us-presses-ahead-least-bad-235325634.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/us-presses-ahead-least-bad-235325634.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;\u201cObviously, in some ways, deterrence has improved, because we have seen reduced attacks, but actually that\u2019s only happened because we\u2019ve degraded their capabilities \u2014 there will be more strikes, I\u2019m almost certain of that,\u201d Kearns said.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8220;The US is now attacking in real-time as militants in Yemen mobilize missiles for attacks on commercial vessels. So far, it seems the military response has only emboldened the Houthis. \u201cIt is an honor for our people to be in such a confrontation with these evil forces,\u201d Abdul Malik al-Houthi, the head of the militant group, said in a speech on Thursday, citing the US, the UK and Israel.&#8221;<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/us-presses-ahead-least-bad-235325634.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[272,355,1302,1301,1152,314,194,391,389,1999,1226,108,115,619],"class_list":["post-12894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-gaza","tag-hamas","tag-houthi","tag-international-relations","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-palestine","tag-red-sea","tag-shipping","tag-terrorism","tag-terrorists","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12895,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12894\/revisions\/12895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}