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The Biden administration has spent the past week offering Iran every possible incentive and apology for the Israeli assassination of a Hamas leader in Tehran. The message was that Biden did not want to escalate.
And Iran responded to that show of weakness as anticipated.
Several U.S. personnel were injured in a suspected rocket attack at the Ain al-Asad air base in western Iraq, according to U.S. defense officials.
A U.S. defense official confirmed the suspected rocket attack to Fox News on Monday afternoon. According to Reuters, at least two Katyusha rockets were fired towards the base.
Speaking to Fox News, the official said that “several” U.S. personnel were injured during the incident.
The rocket attacks by Shiite PMU militias in Iraq, run by Iran, targeting U.S. bases and personnel have been going on for a long time. After a previous attack killed three U.S. servicemembers, they were supposed to have come to a halt. Private backchannel talks suggested that they would not be happening again.
Biden took Iran at its word and this is result.
This was back in January.
Top U.S. leaders issued a warning on Sunday to Iran-backed militants, a day after a drone attack killed three U.S. troops in Jordan, dramatically escalating the situation in the Middle East.
“We had a tough day last night in the Middle East. We lost three brave souls in an attack on one of our bases,” President Joe Biden said in South Carolina.
He then asked for a moment of silence and added: “And we shall respond.”
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said he was “outraged and deeply saddened” by the deaths and vowed that the strike would not go unanswered.
“Iran-backed militias are responsible for these continued attacks on U.S. forces, and we will respond at a time and place of our choosing,” he said in a statement. “The president and I will not tolerate attacks on American forces, and we will take all necessary actions to defend the United States, our troops, and our interests.”
Three U.S. service members were killed and 25 more were wounded Saturday night in the drone attack
Feeble as those threats were, they at least got Iran to put on a show of backing down. The show of appeasement recently produced the opposite result.
As it always does.
Weakness gets Americans killed. Biden is weak. Kamala is even weaker. Pleading with Iran for restraint encouraged the Islamic terrorist state to push and see how weak D.C. is.
When Iranian leaders chant “Death to America”, they mean it. When our leaders promised to stand up for America, they don’t.
MacArthur: “I shall return”
Biden: “I shall respond”
“I shall poop in my diapers.”
Every boy from my generation learned early on how to deal with schoolyard bullies: You either stood up to them or you hid in fear. It appears to me that liberal pacifism and “deescalation” tactics stem from years of giving up their lunch money as children. It didn’t work then and it doesn’t work now.
Israel understands this principle as well as Donald Trump. If the administration had leveled the drone’s origin site rather than unfreezing $6B, the conversation would be much different today.
As a side note, I wonder exactly what the Biden regime thought was going to happen with that money? Maybe they’d start a ‘Feed The Orphans’ nonprofit?
It would behoove our military leaders to spend less time studying Gandhi and woke implementation literature and MORE time studying Sun Tzu. Maybe then, by showing strength, US recruiting wouldn’t be in the toilet. Strength responds to strength and nothing else.
I know…how very caveman of me.
Fascinating with all the top shelf, most advance military equipment and weapons at our disposal we are still unable to eliminate a bunch of ya-hoo Shiite PMU “militias” who are outdoors in plain sight. The best wea can do is “threaten” them with retaliation ? Mega pathetic.
Israel and the USA should decapitate the depraved murderous Islamic Ayatollah Iranian regime now.
Period.
There is no other option.
He’s not weak, he’s pro-Iran.
Embrace the healing power of “and.”
He’s both. Let’s face it, he’s a bitch for the mullahs.
Strength appeals to the Arab culture. What better than attacking a superpower when you know that the superpower is unlikely to strike back in any meaningful way.
Appeasement is seen as weakness and is despised.
p.s. “suspected rocket attack”? Rockets were confirmed. They’ve identified two of them as Katyusha rockets. How is it the Katayusha rockets are “suspected rockets”?
If dealing with Islamic terrorism can be used as a measure, the leftist twits in DC are insane. They negotiate with the terrorists for a cease fire or whatever and it’s good for a few weeks and then the terrorists go back to what they really want to do. And people in our government never learn. Do they have any sort of attention span? Do they have any functioning synapses? They are supposed to be some of the smartest people in the country but they never show it.
In 1938, Hitler perceived weakness in Britain, France, and the U.S., so he took Austria. The allies did nothing. So then he took Czechoslovakia. The allies wrung their hands. Still more weakness from the allies, so Hitler invaded Poland and World War II erupted. History is repeating itself.
Sickening that we ALLOW – or rather THEY ALLOW the mullahs to even UTTER “death to America” without losing some major infrastructure! Our position should be that when the mullahs declare that it’s a DECLARATION of WAR and we RESPOND – MASSIVELY!
As should have positively nothing to do with the United Nations since Ian is still a Member and meeting on American Soil