The US military’s promise to retaliate for a missile attack that barely missed American warships in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen could drag the country into “another quagmire” after Afghanistan and Iraq, an analyst says.
Michael Maloof made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Wednesday, while commenting on remarks by Captain Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman who said on Tuesday that the US was busy designing a counterstrike following the Sunday attack.
According to the Pentagon, the USS Mason, a guided-missile destroyer, and the USS Ponce, an amphibious warfare ship, were targeted in a failed missile attack from the Yemeni territory, but neither of the two missiles hit the warships.
“We want very much to get to the bottom of what happened,” said Davis. “We’re going to find out who did this and we will take action accordingly.”
According to Maloof, retaliation could be considered as a normal response as the US ships were in…