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Iran’s terror militias launched a wave of rocket attacks against American soldiers in Iraq and Syria under Biden. There were dozens of these attacks last year alone.
In the spring of 2023, Scott Patrick Dubis, a 52-year-old military contractor who had worked on U.S. military bases in Afghanistan, Kuwait and Qatar, was killed by an Iranian backed attack.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin responded by promising that, “as President Biden has made clear, we will take all necessary measures to defend our people and will always respond at a time and place of our choosing. No group will strike our troops with impunity.”
But Iran and its Jihadi proxy militias could and did go on attacking our troops with impunity.
We launched a few light airstrikes for show and the attacks went on. American personnel kept being wounded in Iranian attacks and sometimes we responded and sometimes we didn’t.
After the latest wave of attacks and responses, the Shiite regime in Baghdad demanded that the United States leave Iraq. And Biden, obediently, began negotiating the withdrawal.
Now, three US Army soldiers were killed and over 30 were wounded in an Iranian-backed drone attack on a position on the Jordanian-Syrian border. This is the worst death toll in some time.
A few months after the Shiite Islamic regime in Tehran commemorated the takeover of the U.S. embassy with chants of “Death to America”, it succeeded in inflicting more death on Americans.
Biden has issued a statement vowing that, once again, “we will hold all those responsible to account at a time and in a manner of our choosing.” Like Austin’s previous statement after the murder of Scott Dubis, that means that no one should expect a quick meaningful response.
The message to Iran and its Islamic terrorists is that they have nothing to worry about. And Iran’s message to us is that we can never pull out far enough until we have surrendered the entire region, the rest of the world and then finally our own country to the enemy.
In the spring of 2020, Army Spc. Juan Miguel Mendez Covarrubias and Air Force Staff Sgt. Marshal D. Roberts, as well as Lance Corporal Brodie Gillon, a British female medic, were killed in an attack by the Shiite Iran-backed militias. Roberts died trying to save a female comrade.
And the attacks just keep right on coming.
When Biden came into office, Iran had a pretty good lock on Iraq, Lebanon and Syria. Then Biden allowed it to seize control over Yemen. During the winter break, it used its Houthi strongholds in Yemen to hijack shipping in the Red Sea. While Biden was out of office and Austin was in the hospital, it seized a channel used by a third of the world’s container ships.
Much as in Iraq and Syria, Biden responded with limited airstrikes that fell far short of ending the threat while conducting a 30 day review before possibly bringing back sanctions on the Houthis. And the Houthis have since managed to hit an oil tanker while global shipping costs have doubled and shipping war risk insurance premiums have skyrocketed many times over.
The same pattern of failure that had played out in Iraq is now playing out in the Red Sea.
After retreating in the Red Sea, Iran has decided to push the frontiers of terror all the way to the Jordanian border. Jordan is a key intersection, a Saudi client state that shares a border with Israel, whose ‘Palestinian’ population would prefer to be ruled by the Muslim Brotherhood. The Brotherhood’s arms include Hamas and its state sponsor, Qatar, is an ally of Iran.
Iran is serious about winning and we are not. It has a plan and we do not. Every tentative response that we make telegraphs the fact that we are afraid to attack it. The Biden administration emphasizes that its strikes are measured, defensive and come with warnings.
Our terrorist enemies however have no such fears or concerns. They hit us where they can.
The Biden administration and the foreign policy apparatus lives in fear of “expanding the war” while Iran seeks to expand the war as far as it can. When one side wants to expand the war while the other fears any escalation, the outcome is a cycle of retreats and defeats.
Every time Iran attacks, we retreat, and every time we retreat, it pushes harder. Negotiations, sanctions relief and diplomacy have failed miserably. The so-called “moderates” have been pushed out in Iran and the new regime burned them along with their American puppets like Biden’s Iran envoy Robert Malley, who was outed by Iran regime outlets, as it prepares for war.
October 7 was only one of the points of Iran’s Jihadist ‘blitzkrieg’ across the region as it prepares to become the dominant power in the Middle East. And while it was devastating to Israelis, it may be less significant than the takeover of the Red Sea or its existing nuclear program, under which it now has enough enriched uranium to build several nuclear warheads, its simultaneous launch of three satellites or its ballistic missile program that can deliver nukes.
All of this foreshadows a struggle on a grand scale that will test America and the world.
Much like WWII, this crisis could have been averted through geopolitical maneuvers, maximum pressure, limited intervention and other tools that were never properly used. Instead Obama attempted to cut a nuclear deal with Iran that he knew was worthless. Biden resumed efforts to restore the deal even though Tehran by then had achieved enough of its goals that it demanded only billions in cash while offering nothing in return but contempt, threats and terror attacks.
The killings of three American soldiers is only the latest consequence of these policies.
Iran got lucky in its Tower 22 attack in Jordan, but the attacks could have also been worse. While American soldiers deployed in Iraq and Syria are used to rocket alerts and quickly run to shelter, those in Tower 22 had not gotten into that same habit. A large stream of rockets or missiles could have inflicted much worse casualties than those 3 dead or 30 wounded.
And that leaves out the possibility that we have yet to consider.
On Oct 7, Israeli soldiers braced for rocket attacks by retreating into shelters only to face a massive assault by thousands of armed Jihadis overrunning their positions under the cover of rockets. Israel wasn’t ready for that kind of attack and the real question is are we ready?
Iran will keep testing and pushing us. And if we fail to take the initiative, the attack will come.
We were not ready for the seizure of our embassy in Tehran. We were not ready for the Marine Barracks bombings in Beirut. We were not ready for 9/11. We were not ready for the fall of Kabul. We were not ready for the takeover of shipping in the Red Sea near Yemen.
What aren’t we ready for next? We only have so much time to wait around and find out.
Wars are fought on by taking the offensive or holding defensive positions. When you are always defending, then you allow the enemy to take the initiative and then you have to find out what comes next.
If we don’t take the offensive, we will have to wait to find out how bad the next attack will be.
As a nobody, my first instinct eas to wipe out most of Tehran…the busiest part of the city….wouldn’t you think a military might at least have done this to make them have second thughts? Timid America is a pathetic sight.
Too late now, Bush should have nuked Tehran, Mecca and Islamabad after 9/11.
My questions are:
“Why are American troops still in Syria and Jordan?”
The UN peace keeping force has been helping the refugees haven’t they?
Isn’t Syria aligned with Russia?
Is this why Iran has attacked Israel using the Hamas cowards?
Iran is expanding its sphere of influence across the region. The Jordan base is at the triangle of Jordan, Syria and Iraq. It’s the point at which we move into Syria and vice versa it’s the point at which Iranian backed Jihadists might move into Jordan. There are air assets and a bunch of Syrian Sunnis in the area who are fighting with the Syrian Shiite Jihadis, the latter backed by Russia and Iran. And it gets even more convoluted from there.
My point exactly, WHY are young Americans, paid for by American Taxes, protecting and defending other countries from THEIR enemies while America cannot seem to protect and defend their own country.
Why are US Troops fighting in the Middle East, thousands and thousands of Miles away from America, why are US Troops in Japan, Morocco, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iraq, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK protecting and defending those countries from WHOM exactly.
I can well imagine Americans get rightly pissed off if ANY foreign Troops were on American soil for any reason.
Bring ALL those Troops back home, close ALL US Bases around the World and protect and defend America and start drilling for the Oil underneath the USA..
America First, the rest of the World can get in line…. President Donald J. Trump.
IRAN HAS BEEN BLACKMAILING THE WORLD SINCE 1979…. Thanks Jimmy, the Democratic Party, and now, Obiden.
“You better not attack us or else we’ll turn our oil pumps off and then we’ll go psycho, fund proxies to attack Western interests around, close off the Straits of Hormuz, and then we’ll kidnap more Americans for Ransom that will pay for our pursuit of nukes, and… we’ll use them to wipe a few countries off the map and no one will dare retaliate. HAHAHAHAHA! HAHAHAHAHA!”
Are we ready Mr. Greenfield? When America’s Sleeper Cells hear the Alarm to Awaken, every major city will be attacked with a weapon so destructive, and unstoppable, there would be no choice but to declare Martial Law. The Cells are multiplying daily! Since Millions are supporting terrorist groups, they’ll join them in the fight against America with our defenses unable to distinguish between innocents and combatants.
The Unstoppable Weapon: GASOLINE! Imagine a hundred buildings burning in any city with new ones added daily.
Doesn’t Israel reserve the right to make preemptive strikes on Iran, as needed, to ensure their nuclear program never comes to fruition, or has the US screwed Israel and guaranteed Iran that they can do whatever they want?
See what happens when the yammering-classes get what they want?
Yammering on and on about “the US should not be the world’s policeman.”
The isolationists are gonna start another war.
Winston S. Churchill — ‘The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.’
John McCain: “Bomb Bomb Bomb… Bomb Bomb Iran.”
IMAGINE a World’s without the Mullah’s of Iran!
Everything I’ve read says the actual citizens of Iran LOVE the West and America, and want nothing more than the theocrats to disappear from their lives.
Yes, but the protesters always want strong support, a strong open statement of support, from the U.S. which never comes.
The same in Cuba with protesters risking their lives, many arrested, many disappeared, in their quest for freedom from the Castro Communists. The Democrats quickly voiced their support for the Communist Regime and their excuse was to blame the sanctions.
There are youtube videos of the conditions there and some of them detailing it, interviewing disgrunted Cubans, are kicked out.
Communist Sandinista Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua, installed and propped up by the Democrats, arrests all political opponents, now a Bishop and some priests, as a “threat to our Democracy.” So Trump is right when he says the Democrats are acting like Third World Dictators.
If not for Democrat Support, the Mullahs, the Castro’s, and Ortega types in Central and South America, would be in the ash heap of history! The Democrat Dream: One-Party Rule!
I’m not so sure about “Love the West” but I know there are a load of them that would love the theocracy to disappear from their lives. Those folks need to create an underground swell of resistance against the rulers if they expect change.
Israels problem to defang Iran. No more US involvement. That will give Israel clear title to the conquered lands for their settlement’s expansion. Short term goal for creation of greater Israel from sea to shining sea.
If one follows Israeli press, one of the most common war-related news items has been along the lines of, “After US pressure, Israel has agreed to …” As an example, northern Gaza, after months of fighting, isn’t fully cleansed of Hamas fighters. Yet today I read, “After US pressure”, Israel agreed to allow a UN team to conduct a survey of the humanitarian situation in Gaza’s north, no doubt to ramp up pressure on Israel to allow Gaza residents (surely including Hamas reinforcements) to return to the north.
She has made similar strikes and moves i the past. They have a way of laying low, deciding what critical move to make, preparing well for it, then DOING IT. Both offensively and defensively. And as far as I recall, they’ve never yet asked Uncle Sam whether “it would be OK” if they did.
Israel had plans on the table, those are now postponed because of Oct 7. Military resources are currently directed at battling Hamas, potentially Hezbollah, exactly as Iran intended.
“Died Because Biden Won’t Stand Up”. How many weapons left in Afghanistan went to Iran and the Houthis? Moo slims in the Biden mafia are actually setting up our troops to be killed. That is my belief. Our sworn enemy – the Shia and/or Sunni – are actually giving the orders in the Biden mafia.
It was the world’s smartest human,,B.Obama, who decided that the Mideast should be left to Iran when the US departed. To repudiate that decision, would be an admission that the smartest human is, in fact, a bonehead, and therefore would be racist. Can’t let that happen no matter how many American servicemen pay the price.
True. And it’s the same people or their proteges and the same movement in both administrations making policy.
ButtKrak Hussein Obama is a gee-nee-us
Another sign of Obama/Biden’s contempt for our military. They die that Iran might live.
Do-little-do-less-do-nothing Biden. And it’s too late now.
Two birds with one stone department:
Biden should nationalize Iran’s revolutionary guards (IRGC).. Once they work for him, they’ll be helpless to do anything.
Then they can secure Iran’s border the way he secured ours.
Iran uses Jihadi proxy militias as their Catspaws.
Heard a news report today that Biden has sent his stooge to ask China to ask Iran to rein in the violence from Iran. That’s it? Now we send our people to ask the Chinese Commies to inter seed for us rather than take any real action against the murderers? How weak we must look to these terrorists.
Iran keeps “poking the bear” because it knows the bear is really a sheep in a bear costume.
Why are American troops defending Jordan from Syrian border-crossers? Isn’t that a job for Jordanians? If the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is entitled to control land that YHWH gave to the children of Israel, surely the Hashemite king should defend his own land.
Why isn’t the American government defending our own land from border-crossers that our tax dollars facilitate through non-governmental organizations – to the detriment of the health and security of our own land, and to the detriment of human trafficking victims being imported to our land by Mexican cartels?
America has been cleaning up after Sykes-Picot since 1946, and paying to protect western Europe from Soviet communism, as well. While the threat profile in those parts of the world has reverted to the standard one since the Seventh Century, and western Europeans live a subsidized life of nihilism, allowing the invaders to conquer them socially, we continue to pay the bill. I, and many other Americans, are weary of this ridiculous state of affairs.
Let us return to the America the founders gave us, free of foreign entanglements and secure in our own territory.