{"id":53174,"date":"2023-12-27T10:57:53","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T15:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=53174"},"modified":"2023-12-27T10:57:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T15:57:53","slug":"we-are-at-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=53174","title":{"rendered":"We Are At War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/streiff\/2023\/12\/26\/us-navy-destroyer-and-fighters-engage-17-houthi-missiles-and-drones-n2167993\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Red State<\/a> reported that \u00a0the Arleigh Burke-class Aegis destroyer USS Laboon (DDG-58) in the southern Red Sea \u00a0shot down a total of 17 Houthi drones and missiles during a tense 10-hour engagement. The Houthis are a terrorist group in Yemen funded by Iran. The Biden administration keeps giving Iran money. We are funding attacks on our own military.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Details of the engagement are sparse, but the Arleigh Burke-class Aegis destroyer USS Laboon (DDG-58), a member of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower carrier strike group (CSG), as well as several F\/A-18 launched from the Eisenhower shot down 12 attack drones, three-antiship missiles and two land attack missiles. The engagement began at 6:30 a.m. local time Tuesday and continued for 10 hours. None of the attacking weapons hit a target.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At least Iran is not giving them accurate weapons.<\/p>\n<p>The article concludes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The general location of the Eisenhower CSG indicates they are pushing up into the Bab el-Maneb Strait to provide coverage for maritime traffic at this chokepoint. The presence of the F\/A-18 indicates a combat air patrol covering the Bab el-Maneb strait as well as destroyers of the CSG. All of this indicates that Biden&#8217;s &#8220;Operation Prosperity Guardian&#8221; may be taking shape as a US-only affair.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>While we must acknowledge this engagement&#8217;s success, it is not sustainable. The Eisenhower CSG is not playing the game to win; they are playing to not lose. They are like the team sitting on a one-point lead at halftime and trying to run out the clock. The Eisenhower must be successful 100 percent of the time; the Houthis only need to occasionally have a missile or drone leak through to achieve their mission.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you watch football, you know that prevent defense is never a good idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, Red State reported that \u00a0the Arleigh Burke-class Aegis destroyer USS Laboon (DDG-58) in the southern Red Sea \u00a0shot down a total of 17 Houthi drones and missiles during a tense 10-hour engagement. The Houthis are a terrorist group &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=53174\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13417,1748,8560,13403,246,2792,2791,13062,1498,14017,258],"class_list":["post-53174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-biden-administration","tag-defense","tag-houthi","tag-houthis","tag-iran","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-red-state","tag-redstate","tag-the-biden-administration","tag-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53181,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53174\/revisions\/53181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}