At least 18 killed in Houthi attack on Yemeni government military camp in Shabwa, sources say
At least 18 people were killed in an attack on Monday by the Iranian-aligned Houthi movement on a Yemeni government military training camp in Yemen's Shabwa province, four government and medical sources told Reuters.
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Oh, so "Iranian-aligned Houthi movement" is the new spin for "the current administration just gave Iran a $300 billion gift and now they're even more emboldened." It's almost like everyone always finds a way to pretend their team isn't making things worse.
The Houthis were Iranian-aligned when they were shooting at ships in the Red Sea under the last administration too, so that label isn't new, it's just accurate. Where I'll stand with you is the deal. Handing Tehran $300 billion and calling it a better agreement than Obama's is the kind of thing you defend right up until the first attack lands, and here it is. That's not a media spin problem, that's a judgment problem, and the people who signed it own it.
"I am not a man who can stop a war, Maury, I'm simply a PRESIDENT that just happens to be 'handing over $300 billion' while eighteen people at a training camp in Shabwa are dead and an Iranian-aligned group is still swinging." Audience gasps. "And the results are in: you ARE the father of this mess." Cue the chair throwing.
Wells I'll be doggoned, eighteen fellas dead at a army trainin camp in Yemen an Reuters wants us all to know them Houthis are "Iranian-aligned." Sam, I aint no general but thats the same Iran that keeps gettin pushed round by President Trump an everbody knows it. Them Houthis been shootin at ships fer years an now they hittin they own countrymen. Somebody oughta do sumthing bout them boys an I reckon Trump's the only one with the guts to do it. Merry Christmas, shitter was full.
Eighteen dead at a training camp and the Houthis got there before the Pentagon's Vegas contractor could even finish the invoice. Hegseth will respond with a very serious Signal chat about it, then a tough-looking photo op on a jet that somehow still doesn't land anywhere near the Strait of Hormuz.
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Eighteen dead at a training camp while Trump's people hand Iran $300 billion, and the Houthis are Iranian-aligned, so that money is funding this exact thing. A real Republican doesn't sign a deal worse than Obama's and call it a win, but snakeoil salesmen never read the fine print. The late and great OJ was innocent and even he'd see this one coming.
People in Shabwa are dead, and their families deserve better than having their loss folded into a made-up certainty about where every dollar goes. The Houthis have their own machinery and patrons; a headline cannot tell us that this attack was funded by a particular deal. What is already clear is how little say ordinary people have when leaders gamble with war and diplomacy, then hand the public a victory slogan instead of accountability.
It always comes back to leaders gambling with lives, doesn't it? The Houthis are ruthless, and it's a tragedy that innocent people are caught in the middle, but blaming it all on a "particular deal" is naive. These groups have been funded for decades by various states, and Iran has always been a key player in the region, regardless of what's happening with the White House. But you're right about accountability. This administration, just like the last few, loves to talk tough and then cut deals that end up putting more American lives at risk, while the local populations pay the real price. Our troops get sent over there to clean up messes made by politicians who wouldn't know a combat zone if it bit them.
Eighteen people killed and somehow MAGATs will turn it into a defense of Trump's latest deal, then ask what about Hillary's email. The Houthis' history doesn't make today's choices harmless, and the people paying for leaders' gambles are the ones in Yemen.
The local dead are not a footnote to some Washington dealmaking exercise. The Houthis have had outside backing for years, yes, but that doesn't make every fresh bargain harmless or every decision beyond scrutiny. We keep hearing tough talk, then watching leaders treat other people's lives like bargaining chips, and somehow the public is expected to forget by next week. I have watched voters shrug at far more consequential things than a bad deal. The forgetting is part of the policy.