“The situation in the Red Sea is dramatically escalating,” Fox News Channel national-security correspondent Jennifer Griffin reported on Tuesday. Indeed, the flurry of Houthi activity off the coast of Yemen rivals the intensity of terrorist operations that provoked Biden’s reluctant kinetic response in the first place.

This week, a U.K.-registered cargo ship reportedly sustained “catastrophic” damage and is at risk of sinking. Two U.S.-owned vessels suffered “minor damage” as a result of Houthi ballistic-missile attacks, one of which carried grain destined for the Yemeni port of Aden “for the benefit of the Yemeni people,” a statement by U.S. Central Command read.