Ret. Gen. Anthony Tata: U.S. Navy Sinking 3 Houthi Ships Was ‘Responsive in Nature’

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TATA: "Well, it's responsive in nature, so I think what we are seeing, obviously the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, the Persian Gulf, they are all major shipping lanes for commerce, for oil all around the world, so that’s the primary mission of the Navy, quite frankly, is to help maintain commerce lanes around the globe to enable our economy. So this is part and parcel of what the Navy’s mission is, the U.S. Navy, and I’m glad to see that there’s a joint task force with other nations participating in the Red Sea and in the Gulf of Aden and surrounding areas around the Horn of Africa. So it’s a good thing that we have these ships and this task force patrolling the waters trying to help container ships that are trying to get through the area. But we also need to match this operational mission with a strategic mission of diplomacy and financial penalties on Iran for funding all of this. That is where all of this is coming from. And for whatever reason, this administration continues to coddle Iran while they fight the proxies of Iran, which is kind of mind-boggling."