Former Undersecretary of Defense Robert Wilkie told Newsmax on Monday that the airstrikes on the Houthi rebels that President Donald Trump ordered over the weekend were “long overdue.”

“[Former President Joe] Biden gave the impression to the world that America was a paper tiger,” Wilkie said onNewsmax’s “Wake Up America.” “If you remember, Mark, you and I used to discuss in the office that the Biden people were telling the Houthis we were coming. 

“We targeted facilities in the early morning hours when we were guaranteed not to hit anybody. But the only way that this works is if there is a sustained air campaign, an air campaign that not only includes the aircraft of the United States Navy … but this will require the interdiction of the United States Air Force in large numbers, because those are the aircraft that can deliver the ground-pounding ordnance that will destroy these people. 

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