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“Well, when you say ‘working’—are they stopping the Houthis? No. Are they going to continue? Yes.” —President Joe Biden, in response to the question “Are the airstrikes in Yemen working?”

Sometimes you see a quote attributed to a famous person and think, there’s simply no way that’s real. Abraham Lincoln talking about the internet, Albert Einstein extolling the virtues of compound interest—that sort of thing. Joe Biden is not known for pith in his public remarks; he is known for spiraling, ungrammatical sentence construction, digression, and avuncular nonsense. Looking at the president’s description of his administration’s weeklong, almost certainly unconstitutional, and even more certainly ineffectual bombing campaign against the Houthis in Yemen, you’re thinking: Surely, there must be some uncharitable editing here, some nip-tuck with ellipses, some faulty........

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