The prospect of strife in Iran in which groups are pitted against one another and forces emerge which weaken central authority will have grave consequences for the region.
These costly U.S. attacks failed to achieve their goals, but were conducted in order to inflict a blow against Yemen, for daring to challenge the Israelis.
The White House decision to relist the rebels as a specially designated global terrorist group and call the move a “pliable form of economic pressure” looked frankly ridiculous.