04-16-2017, 01:40 PM
The Houthis have direct backing from Iran, that support allows insurgents and militias to hold on. The Taliban had no such support, the Iraqi insurgents did not having backing either at first but did have backing from Iraq's neighbors who did not want to see a permanent US military position in Iraq from 2004 onwards, not suprisingly that is precisely when the insurgents became much more dangerous to our forces.