Mike McFaul: It Would Now Be Difficult for Trump to Tell the Saudis to Handle the Houthis on Their Own

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MCFAUL: “This is escalation at a time when we did not need that. Having said that, I think at this point it would be very difficult for the president to say to the Saudis, just do this on your own, do your best to see what you can do, because that signals weakness not just in the Middle East, but I would say around the world. So I think he's got a very difficult decision to make.”