“If you want to keep a secret,” George Orwell once observed, “you must also hide it from yourself.” The Biden administration’s decision earlier this month to remove the Houthis, the Iranian-backed, Yemen-based militia, from the registry of Foreign Terrorist Organizations is no secret. But it can, perhaps, be categorized as an exercise in self-deception.

The Houthis can fairly be classified as a terror group, and both press and policymakers would do well to note it.