Operation Prosperity Guardian—Are You Kidding?
One can but wonder if there is a Special Office deep within the Pentagon that dreams up these operational monikers.
Leaving that inquiry aside, let’s discuss the Houthi attacks on shipping in the Red Sea
The Houthis are a militant group challenging the status quo in Yemen and, like many of the planet’s militants, like to hook up with most anyone who is raising hell against establishment governments. The current poster boy for such grievances at the moment is Hamas in Gaza and so, Yemen’s Houthis made a name for themselves at very little cost by attacking international shipping in the Red Sea. Allegedly, that was in support of Hamas, but mainly against anyone and anything that is anti-Israeli.
Hard for some of us not to agree with that, but that’s another argument for another day.
Since America is the current protector of all things we don’t agree with in the world, we immediately jumped into something the Pentagon calls Operation Prosperity Guardian
Just whose prosperity we are eager to gu…