Tammy Bruce Praises US Strikes In Yemen Meant To 'Completely Change The Posture Of The Houthis'

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During a State Department press briefing, Spokesperson Tammy Bruce was asked about the latest strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen.

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00:00I have a couple of questions.

00:02On Yemen first, what is the U.S. strategy regarding Yemen?

00:06Is it degrading the capabilities of the Houthis that they don't pose a threat to U.S. interests,

00:13or is it destroying them completely?

00:15Because there's conflicting statements from U.S. officials saying, like, we're not going

00:19to interfere with the civil war in Yemen.

00:21Well, what we've seen, of course, in the past when it comes to the Houthis, it was a tit

00:27for tat strike.

00:29If the Houthis would be sending missiles or attacking both commercial and military ships,

00:36what the previous administration did is they would do one strike as a tit for tat dynamic.

00:42What's happening now is a complete shift when it comes to the nature of why it's going on,

00:47which is to stop the assault on the maritime traffic in that area.

00:53Up to this point, there's about 174 attacks on American naval ships, which is an extraordinary

01:02number of attacks.

01:04And this isn't a situation that should be managed.

01:06It has to stop.

01:08So the message to the Houthis is if this will end, when you end the attack on both commercial

01:16and military ships in that region.

01:20So it's a maritime issue, and it's meant to completely change the posture of the Houthis

01:26and of course in conjunction in that dynamic with Iran, that the days of pinprick responses

01:34where we allow that to occur is over.

01:37That's I think a pretty clear statement from the administration as a whole as well.

Tammy Bruce Praises US Strikes In Yemen Meant To 'Completely Change The Posture Of The Houthis'

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