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PREVIEW: From a longer conversation, colleague Gregory Copley explains why a military soliution to the Houthis would draw the US and allies into a years-long and unwinnable war in the mountains of Yemen.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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PREVIEW: From a longer conversation, colleague Gregory Copley explains why a military soliution to the Houthis would draw the US and allies into a years-long and unwinnable war in the mountains of Yemen.

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0:00.0

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0:24.2

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0:28.9

crusty bread topped with a little melted butter? You already know you're going to love it.

0:34.4

For warming comfort on a cold day, it has to be Heinz.

0:38.8

This is John Bachelor.

0:41.6

Lengthy conversation with my good friend and colleague Gregory Coppley of

0:45.8

Defense and Foreign Affairs. We touch upon the Huthies more than once.

0:50.4

Gregory makes it very clear that the Huthies are not to be defeated by a task force in the Red

0:55.7

Sea or the Arabian Sea or even intruders, the Special Forces, or a major invasion of Yemen not likely to achieve anything but

1:06.2

a drawn out lengthy perhaps for years war.

1:10.1

The Huthies have missiles, they have training, they have skill set, they have a sovereign nation.

1:15.9

Here's Gregory, discouraging anyone thinking that this is solution, the solution is war.

1:22.0

It was not in Afghanistan, It was not in Iraq. It will not be in Yemen.

1:27.0

Well, the hooly you don't have the desert, they have the mountains. That's the big thing. They're very hard to reach.

1:32.0

And the Egyptians fought wars in Yemen in the 50s for a long period of time with massive Egyptian losses and the Egyptians had to withdraw from that.

1:42.8

That was when they were trying to destroy the kingdom of Yemen.

1:46.6

And today, the Houthi basically took over what was North Yemen before the two Yemen

1:54.7

amalgamated and the Rump internationally recognized

1:58.5

government of Yemen is basically now in Aden,

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