Bopping the Gopher

Trump's time of testing may well be nigh. Yemen's Houthi rebels just shot a short-range ballistic missile (like the infamous Scud of Desert Storm notoriety) at Saudi Arabia's international airport. The Saudis shot it down with an American Patriot missile system. They have also bought the newer U.S. THAAD anti-missile system, though it has not yet been delivered. 

We can reasonably assume that these ragtag rebels do not possess the native know-how or facilities to build ballistic missiles. Accordingly, they had to come from their Iranian patrons who have supplied them with pretty much everything else. A definite upping of the ante but potentially connected to events in Korea.

The Norks have been quietly working with the Iranians to develop long range ballistic missiles as well as nuclear warheads. We have seen the missiles and there is now informed speculation that the North Koreans may have even developed a hydrogen bomb. President Trump is presumably aware of this and has much better information than the rest of us and has been making some fairly aggressive gestures toward the Norks. Look for the Iranians to try to distract the U.S. by heating things up in the Middle East and away from the Korean penninsula - sort of a "bop the gopher" strategy but with deadly stakes. We will see if the President and his team can guess accurately where this nasty "gopher" will pop up next. Whacking these guys hard but behind the scenes would be instructive to all sides.

www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2017/11/04/saudi-arabia-intercepts-missile-targeting-main-airport/