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Iranian-backed militias have attacked American installations and forces in Syria, Iraq, and Jordan some 170 times.
Ostensibly, these terrorist groups claim they are hitting US forces to coerce America into dropping its support of Israel and demanding a cease-fire in the Gaza war.
In reality, these satellite terrorists are being directed in a larger effort by Iran to pry the US. out of the Middle East, in the manner of the 1983 Marine barracks bombing.
That way, Iran will be free to fulfill its old dream of becoming a nuclear shield for a new Shiite/Persian terrorist axis from Tehran to Damascus to Beirut to the West Bank and Gaza—surrounding Israel and intimidating the Gulf regimes and more moderate states like Jordan and Egypt into concessions.
These Iranian appendages have made a number of unfortunately correct assumptions about America in general and the Biden administration in particular.
One, after the recent serial humiliations of the flight from Afghanistan, the passivity of watching a Chinese spy balloon traverse with impunity the continental United States, the mixed American signals on the eve of the Ukraine war, the troubled Pentagon’s recruitment and leadership lapses, and the destruction of the US southern border, both Iran and its surrogates feel that the United States either cannot or will do much of anything in response to their aggression.
They see the U.S. military short thousands of recruits, its leadership politicized, its munition stocks depleted by arms shipments to Ukraine and Israel, and the massive abandonment of weapons in Kabul.
Two, they view Joe Biden’s serial appeasement as a force multiplier of these perceptions of American weakness. After entering office, the Biden administration begged for a renewed Iran deal from a preening theocracy. It sought to ensure calm by delisting the Houthis from global terrorist designations and sending hundreds of millions of dollars to Hamas and radical Palestinians to buy good behavior.
Biden may have agreed that Iran was the spider in the center of the Middle East Islamic terrorist web, but only thereby to win over it with bribes such as lifting embargoes and sanctions to ensure an Iranian windfall of $90 or more billion in oil sales revenue.
Biden greenlighted a bribery payment of $6 billion to Iran to return American hostages, thereby ensuring more will be taken. It loudly distanced itself from the Netanyahu government. The gulf encouraged radicals to believe they could coerce Israel into accepting radical Islamic states on the West Bank and Gaza.
Three, after hitting American stations and bases 170 times and seeing little sustained, much less disproportionate, responses, Iran and its satellites now feel they are winning proxy wars with the U.S.
They have all but shut down the Red Sea as an international shipping route—damaging Europe, Egypt, and Israel, which all depend on Red Sea commerce for vital imports and exports.
Iran has forced Biden to publicly alienate the Netanyahu government and push a ceasefire down Israel’s throat. And it has helped to spark international pro-Hamas protests throughout Europe and the US that timid and compliant left-wing governments fear could lose them close elections.
But most damaging are administration spokesmen who mouth the same empty script after each serial attack: 1) The US will respond at the time and place of its own choosing. 2) The US finds no direct evidence of Iranian involvement, although it clearly has supplied the attackers; 3) The US does not wish a wider war and has no plans to attack Iran itself.
Translated to our enemies, it means an 80-year-old non-compos-mentis president is in no position to prevent, much less win, a theater-wide Middle East war that his own serial appeasement has now nearly birthed.
Biden and the Democratic Party know, as National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan pointed out just prior to the October 7 attacks on Israel, that the administration inherited a deterred and quiet Middle East. And then it blew up on their appeasing watch.
Now they are terrified of a theater-wide conflict breaking out during an election year—a fact known to all of America’s Middle East enemies.
Biden and company have forgotten the ancient wisdom that preparing loudly only for peace guarantees war. To prevent war, it should return to oil sanctions on Iran, embargo its banking transactions, slap a travel ban on Iran and its allies, cut off all aid to Hamas and the West Bank, and restore a true terrorist designation for the Houthis.
US officials must stop aimlessly babbling. If the administration must speak, Washington should do so by conveying disproportionality and unpredictability. And if, and when, America were to strike, it should do so in silent and devastating fashion.
When serially attacked, loudly responding that we will only proportionally strike back and wish no wider war will only ensure a big, ugly one.
The White House babbling and screw-loose behavior does have a purpose, giving aid and comfort to our enemies.
The depraved psychopathic murderous Iranian regime needs to be decapitated.
Along with the Saudi Royal Family and the Qatar ‘s Royal Family.
As well as the usual depraved psychopathic murderous Islamic scum in the middle east.
The stinkin Middle East Islamic Kabuki Theater must be closed down permanently.
We should go back to producing our own oil and gas rather than relying on our enemies.
We can do that. It’s just a matter of ignoring the idiotic greenie voices of doom and moving ahead with energy production projects, fueled by private enterprise on public or private lands. This fiasco of the government grabbing a large percentage of the oil-rich west and then refusing to allow any exploration or exploitation of mineral wealth is the result of minds that wish to destroy America.
Well Trump & Jared Kushner really like the Saudi Prince for bailing Jared out of one of the most stupid real estate deals ever done! Trump was so easy on Saudi’s. However it was Obama/Biden Admin that killed Bin Laden but no one on the Right ever wants to acknowledge that part.
Bin Loser? Bareback Obama’s butt buddy? Hussein wanted his pal brought in for a four year show trial. The guys who took him out disobeyed orders.
And Trump is a million times the man that anti-American bitch, Bareback Hasbeen Osama, could ever hope to be, and you know it.
We need to drop biden out of a B2 bomber with $1,000,000 stuffed in his most obvious place marked dont return to sender .
Joe Biden is the president George McClellan did not have when he was trying to not win the Civil War.
Is anyone going t o take to the Streets to oppose this War? HANOI JANE WHEE ARE YOU NOW?
What war?
Are Iranian “Soldiers” going to storm our shores? Will there be an Iranian Blitz of our homeland? Iran is a joke. It’s been waging an impotent 45 year jihad war against America and I can still eat an In-N-Out burger right in the drive through (their fries suck) or take a piss outdoors without being blown up by a mad Iranian bomber.
Yes, Iran is a nuisance, and yes, the Americans it’s murdered are real people but a real President could easily take care of the problem once and for all. Trump took out that pot bellied pussy, Soleimani, without even missing the White House chef’s brunch special. If he even burped over Iran, I’d be surprised.
That is the perfect picture of the religion of peace.
Not many Doves Hawks or Eagles just too many Vultures
Israel has demonstrated that it can look after itself, the Arabs are useless without western or Chinese help always have been always will be.
Been studying a lot of Churchill recently, and Victor’s points are eerily similar to the post-WW1 “no more war” isolationist folly and boot-licking statecraft that WSC wrote and warned of for two decades prior to Chamberlain’s famous Munich agreement.
And once again, I must hoist this quote.
“The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.”
― Winston S. Churchill
Oh yeah, the often truncated quote from Chamberlain of “I believe it is peace for our time” misses the real slap in the face…
… as they forget to mention the rest of the quote that states: “Go home and get a nice quiet sleep.”
Amazing that last part is left out. It says so much. Thanks.
He really said that? Damn!
We’ve seen this same story before some 40 years ago. Iran saw weakness and ineptitude in Jimmy Carter and felt emboldened to act with impunity.
But they changed their tune once Ronald Reagan took office. The hostages were released some five minutes after he was sworn in.
That’s because power and violence are the only things Iran understands. They knew they couldn’t outmaneuver Reagan, and he wouldn’t hesitate to use force if the situation called for it.
And should Donald Trump be elected, Iran is likely to change their tune, because they know his M.O. is very different.
Exactly. The hostages were released as Reagan took his oath of office.
And as much as I like Reagan, Trump is ten times the man he was. Iran was quiescent when he was President because the mullahs knew what would happen if they acted up. Typical Islamic pussies.
Alzheimer Joe and his handlers send them billions of free dollars, so it’s no surprise that the mullahs act up.
Shortly after the U.S. regime conditionally surrenders (“spare us Elites, we are your friends”) the USA during WWIII, it will be leaked so as to mock the Left’s useful idiots (pardon the redundancy) that we possessed non-conventional DEW that could have saved our country and ended the conflict in a few days.
But the regime won’t use them for fear, Fear, FEAR that it would appear as a failure of the appeasement strategy.
Erdoğan blamed the US for the earthquakes:
Considering the remarkable 90+% accuracy of the C.T.s, – game, set, match!
BTW, how did those California towns get sliced perfectly in half during the infernos?
The Biden administration doesn’t seem to realize they are attempting to deal with Islamic fanatics that have no regard for Americans and US policy or sensitivities. The mindset is totally different and not understood by our current government. That puts the Biden admin. in a constant failing position.
Remember the old adage, continuing to do the same thing over and over and expect a different outcome is the height of insanity.
Zoom out a bit and take a tour d’horizon. Is there anything our mashed potato brained President and the Leftist cabal that surrounds him do in any policy sphere that doesn’t undermine the U.S.? As Auric Goldfinger said, “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.”
Iran not only supplies arms to Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis, but they are also supplying Russia with drones that attack civilians in Ukraine.
Does anyone think Russia is dropping leaflets in Ukraine, warning civilians to leave the area the way Israel is doing?
No answer required!
A big, not so ugly war is the best thing that can happen, assuming that Biden doesn’t unilaterally surrender.
In other words, we need another Trump Presidency.
Maybe its time to turn Tehran into a beautiful shinning sea of green Trinite or failing that obliterate its entire oil refining infrastructure.
It seems that our current administration is keen to, “just barely”, not to make it TOO OBVIOUS, that they’d like Iran to “get” its “Fist of Allah” (20 kilotons or so), to use against the “Apple of God’s Eye”. So our “administration” goads Iran, with threat of war, to provoke faster “Weapon” development. Which is not to say we haven’t also “given” them Billions to accomplish it.
How can we prevent a war with Iran? …
And also prevent Iran from escalating, by offering appeasement, and inciting violence by showing weakness?
… Well …
Here’s a thought …
MAYBE WE SHOULD STOP PAYING THEM!
Stop giving them money. Stop giving them technology. Stop letting them have weapons and dual-use materials.
Never mind sanctions, which solve nothing. …
Fire everyone in our intelligence agencies … over GS-9 …
… and hire people who will exterminate the riff-raff …
… instead of being the world’s largest drug and arms cartel …
We spend enough money on “intelligence” to rebuild our entire highway system, our whole water infrastructure, all of our electric generation infrastructure, and have change left over for new nuclear power plants … every 8 to 10 years.
… and we still have “conservatives” who think we don’t have the address for every dirt bag on the planet?
We could wipe out Africa and rebuild it for less than our defense budget …
… but we cannot figure out how to whack a few towel heads?
smh …
The self-inflicted stupidity is mind-boggling.
Pursuing peace is fine, as long as it is real pursuit, rather than wearing a sandwich board saying “please wipe your feet here”. Real pursuit involves out-thinking aggressive elements – for example, since Islamic piracy is likely to continue, whether it is the Iran-backed Houthis or someone else, how possible would it be to develop submarines which would bear or tow cargo? This would mean that, even if the cargo was at risk (and it could, perhaps, be robotically guarded), the crew would be inaccessible to would-be hostage takers.