War Depart Stranded Gerald Ford in the Red Sea

The U.S. War Department sent the Gerald Ford aircraft carrier battle group to the Red Sea, rather inexplicably, to support the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln in the Persian Gulf War. It made it through the Suez Canal then stopped midway in the Red Sea because someone figured out that Houthis in Yemen would send hypersonic missiles at it when the large ship passed the narrow Bab-el-Mandeb Strait (Gate of Tears) at the south end of the Red Sea . The huge ship has been stranded there for days ion order to give global intelligence enough time to pin its location in triplicate and coordinate missile delivery packages to hit it.

Because aircraft carriers are so expensive; the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) cost more than 13 billion dollars and the program to build it more than 38 billion and is the most expensive ship of war ever built, it might be a good idea to move it back through the Suez Canal and return to the Mediterranean Sea and exit into the Atlantic for the old, slow route around Africa and Cape Horn. As it is the Pentagon seem like deer in the headlights frozen in place unable to decide how to scoot the boat past hypersonic missiles awaiting it. It is possible that the boat has some other purpose like defending Saudi Arabia, yet that seems somewhat improbable since the desert is itself a pretty good defense against Iranian attacks, as well as the Persian Gulf moat.