IN the dying days of the Trump maladministration, his motormouth Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has put the Houthi insurgents in Yemen on the “terror list” — along with Cuba.

If, as the old saying goes, Latin America’s tragedy is that it is so close to the US and so far from God, then Yemen is far, far from Allah and way too close to Saudi Arabia. 

The barebones and poverty-stricken Houthi insurgency represents absolutely no terror threat to the people of the US and, in itself, is not much threat to oil profits.