Retired general analyzes impact of new US strikes against Houthis| news updates |Breaking news |CNN news
To CNN's Fareed Zakaria, host of Fareed Zakaria GPS, and retired NATO Supreme Allied Commander General Wesley Clark. General Clark, what's your reaction to these new strikes? Well, I'm glad that we followed up. I think we are still doing BDA. We've got to do a better job of targeting. And the way you do it is you strike you put the eyes and ears back on the area. You watch the reaction. But in every case, I would hope that we would try to achieve escalation dominance over the WHO.
If so far one missile, we take out three targets and they fire three missiles, we take out six targets. In other words, we try to stay away from a tit-for-tat. In the end, we will have to search for assets that they value more highly if we are unable to remove the ones they are employing to attack these ships. What did these strikes—last night and this most recent round—do, freed? What does that signify, in your opinion, for the likelihood of a larger confrontation in the area? Yes, it makes things more likely. It's also always been the case that this is a battle that keeps getting bigger.
The majority of Iran's friends, who number in the hundreds, are Houthis. They are combatants acting as proxies. Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Hamas, of course. Furthermore, the Houthis have discovered a means of imposing a price And that's a very delicate balance. And it's trying to reestablish deterrence while at the same time not producing a widening of the war. I'm not sure there's a lot of danger here Because the United States might become involved in exactly what Washington was warning Saudi Arabia about—that is, if you progressively slip into a Yemeni civil war, siding with one side and attacking the houses that could last for a long time. So that risk is present. However, you also need to ensure that shipping can pass through the Persian Gulf. For most of the globe, this is the lifeline. This is the point of distribution for oil to many locations worldwide. And Fred, just to be clear, what's in it for them, assuming that they are reasonable actors? They are claiming that this is about the Israelites.
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