Pakistan, Feb. 5 -- August 7, 1964, was a dark day for the United States when Congress passed with only two dissenting votes the Tonkin Gulf Resolution. The resolution was predicated on a non-existent North Vietnamese PT boat attack on two American destroyers on patrol in the Gulf. And it led to the Vietnam War we lost.

Is America repeating a similar blunder in responding to Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping and the latest Islamic military groups' drone strike that killed three American service personnel and wounded dozens more in Jordan? The critical difference was that these attacks, unlike in the Tonkin Gulf, took place.

Islamic groups and the Houthis have plagiarized Hamas's October 7th attack on Israel diabolically designed to eli...