The United States has “played games” with Yemen’s Houthis for far too long, and now that strikes have been ordered, former NATO Supreme Cmdr. Wesley Clark told Newsmax Sunday that he hopes a real campaign has been stopped to eliminate their threat. 

“We were playing tit for tat with them,” Clark said on Newsmax’s “Sunday Report.” “And when you use American firepower and you put our troops out there and our airmen and naval, our seamen, you’ve got to be decisive in the use of force … let’s get it over with and restore freedom of navigation.”

Former President Joe Biden also ordered a few strikes against the Houthis last June, but Clark said Saturday’s hit was “much heavier.”

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