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Bounce back, that it was very hard to destroy them completely. eventually the uae, which was saudi s allies, pulled out because essentially they thought it was an unwinnable war. so that s why i say this is a delicate balance. wes is right, you want to achieve some kind of escalation dominance or re-establish deterrence, but you do want to get sucked into this because all the houthivise to do is survive. it s the classic problem of this kind of warfare. they win by not losing. we lose by not winning. and that s a dynamic you know, that s a tough tradeoff. so establish escalation norms, show them they can t do this kind of reckless attacks on ships. it makes a very interesting point is that some way to convey a signal to the iranians. i m not sure that i would be in favor of military strikes at ....
Created in their in their country. and this is what this is all about. we have a strategic defensive issue. we have lost what deterrents we had in this area. 130 strikes against our people, 27 against international shipping, one boat being held. and so our deterrence has to be regained. and we ve lost the initiative. we are now reactive rather than proactive. and i think this is the first step to begin to be proactive and try to re-establish deterrence much like wes and others just talked about. we have to make iran and all their proxies understand that they will have to pay a cost for the things they re doing. it s a little slow in coming, but now maybe we will begin to regain that initiative and re-establish the deterrence that we once held in this area. so general breedlove, in terms of the houthis what does ....
We ve incurred a huge cost and that needs to be laid at the foot of the iranians and the hoothies and that can come by sinking some iranian ships but there needs to be an escalation. aaron, what about you, if they do respond the hoothies, i mean is it the same thing as thumbing their noses the u k and united states? exactly what is it. not only thumbing their noses but continuing to show the world that the hoothies and that the wes is weak and with terrorism and counter terrorism here s where i come. israel just took out a tap hamas leader leader in beirut a couple of days ago and then those terrorist leaders feel those strategy target ed assassinatios ....