Joe Biden le belliciste

Joe Biden the warmonger. People had been talking about this since before Trump got elected: the left-Democrats had gone from being 60s-era peaceniks and hippies to being the party of war. It's practically a law of human history that rebels, when they win, become the thing they initially despised. America shook off Britain to become the new global power. The French Revolution (1789-1799) was soon followed up by Napoleon (1804-1814, 1815), with plenty of bloody beheadings connecting the dots. Rebellion in Haiti resulted in the shitty conditions we see today as rebels/liberators became the new oppressors. And in the American microcosm, the left-Dems won the culture war, taking over most or all of the big American institutions (thanks in large part to passivity and cowardice from the right), and with that takeover came the same internal change seen in all victors: the despised conservative "1 percent" became a long list of lefties,* and the so-called warmongering right was replaced by the warmongering left. Hard to believe, but here we are. Headline:

Navy fights the Houthis after Joe Biden took them off the terrorist list

One wonders what former Defense Secretary Robert Gates must be thinking as he wakes up these winter mornings. 

Gates, recall, famously said that Joe Biden has been "wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades." 

So now the U.S. has gotten itself into another war-like action around Yemen, with the U.S. Navy strafing 28 Houthi rebels positions with rockets and drones in response to their brazen attacks on global commercial shipping. The Houthis claim their attaks are all about avenging Israel's war on Gaza terrorists. They like terrorists, because, well, they, too, terrorists. The Navy has urged ships to move around the Horn of Africa rather than through the Red Sea which adds several thousand miles to their voyages—and which raises the price of imported goods. 

But the U.S. had to do it because of the strategic threat they posed. 

And now the Navy has been forced to respond after what the Iran-backed rebels did, raising the risk to U.S. troops along with the potential of a wider war.  

How did it come to this? Look no further than Joe Biden. 

According to the Times of Israel: 

During his first year in office, Biden removed the Houthis’ terror listing, undoing a move by his predecessor Donald Trump amid pressure from progressives who argued that it was harming efforts to deliver humanitarian aid in Yemen. The administration said it decided to review that decision in November against the backdrop of repeated attacks by Houthis on international vessels in the Red Sea. 

No update has been offered since then, but Biden’s response indicated the administration may be leaning toward slapping the terror label back on the Houthis. His comments came hours after the US-led airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen for the first time in years.

So President Trump had them under his thumb with the terrorist designation, handed out on Jan. 19, 2021 just before he left office, meaning, nobody could do business with these pirates. 

One month into Biden's administration, Joe dropped that designation, likely out of spite for President Trump as well as to sidle up to Iran, which is the Houthis' sponsor, ending the terrorism label on this entire band of thugs. The Houthis then did what terrorists do when given a respite -- they armed up, and it didn't take long for international ships to find themselves under attack. 

If this is the way it went, it was pretty much identical to the way Biden has operated during his entire presidency: React, react, react, and if Trump did it, Biden got rid of it—no matter how effective the Trump-side policy.

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*These days, it's hard to name a billionaire who isn't a leftie (and don't tell me Elon Musk is a rightie: he isn't). Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, the late Steve Jobs, his successor Tim Cook... all lefties to a man. That's your "1 percent," America. Occupy them.