Less than a week after a Saudi-led airstrike bombed a crowded reception hall in Sana, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of mourners gathered for a funeral, an American warship fired cruise missiles into three Houthi radar installations.
The Pentagon claimed the radar installations were responsible for earlier Houthi missile attacks against the American destroyer , the Mason, which was sailing off the coast of Yemen in the southern part of the Red Sea.
While the U.S. has been providing substantial logistical and material support to the Saudis in their bombing of Yemen since March of 2015, this marks the first time the U.S. has intervened directly in the civil war.
This will make it much more difficult for the U.S. to play the role of a third-party broker in any future peace agreement. For many, the U.S. strike on the Houthi radar installations simply reinforce the fact that the U.S. has long been complicit in the thousands of deaths the Saudi air campaign has brought to Yemen over the past year.
One wonders, though, just how far the U.S. will intervene in the conflict.
