The group chat that broke Washington has sparked a weeklong war of words between President Donald Trump’s top staff and Jeffrey Goldberg, the liberal editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. He reported in a March 24 blockbuster story that he had been erroneously added to a Signal group chat of top national security officials.

Yet, neither side of the aisle has spent much time debating the actual substance of the Signal chat relative to the blame game over how Goldberg wound up part of a likely classified conversation in the first place. While national security adviser Michael Waltz likely made the major error of accidentally adding Goldberg to the chat, he and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth were dead right about one thing: Liberating the Red Sea from the control of Houthi terrorists was and still is unquestionably in America’s self-interests.