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An oil tanker is on fire in the Gulf of Aden, its operator says, after Houthis said they hit it with a missile.

US officials told the BBC's US partner CBS the tanker was hit by an anti-ship ballistic missile and a naval ship was responding to its distress signal.

There were no injuries reported, the US officials said.

Houthi military spokesman Yaha Sarea said the group used "a number of appropriate naval missiles" and Friday's strike was "direct".

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (41 children)

How about instead of violence we give the people a comfortable life so they don't feel compelled to do dumb shit like this?

No, let's just keep killing. This time will be different!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (14 children)

All (but one?) of the 9/11 hijackers came from comfortable, middleclass, Saudi families. The vast majority of 01/06 insurrections came from at least middleclass incomes, and often higher.

You're insulting these people acting like they're just too poor and uneducated to know better.

As a planet, we cannot allow a major disruption of a major trade route. This is both terrorism and piracy. It cannot stand.

OTOH, I have no idea how to fight terrorists embedded in the civilian population.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I'm not saying give these individuals money. I'm saying maybe we build some social structures that elevate the population out of poverty?

50 million in bombs but not 50 million in schools, why?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

You mean like in Afghanistan? Where they proceeded to close these schools and sell the infrastructure the second the military left?

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