There are stories that the media covers and stories that the media covers up.
This doesn’t always mean not reporting the story at all. Sometimes it’s just a matter of what things the media keeps talking about and what it quickly ushers off the stage.
How many people do you think know that Iran keeps attacking American military personnel?
This was from last year.
There were repeated Iran-backed rocket strikes against Americans in Iraq throughout the last year totaling an estimated 25 separate attacks under the Biden administration.
These attacks have mostly gone unpunished.
While Iran and the media eagerly link the latest wave of Iranian attacks on American forces to the death of General Soleimani, they conveniently forget that the U.S. took him out in response to multiple attacks such as these, including the 2019 rocket attack that killed an American contractor and wounded four American servicemen, and the attempt by Iranian proxies to recreate Benghazi with an attack on our embassy in Baghdad.
And it keeps happening. Americans keep dying.
A U.S. contractor was killed and another contractor and five U.S. service members were injured when a self-destructing drone struck a maintenance facility on a coalition base in northeast Syria on Thursday, the Pentagon said in a statement.
U.S. intelligence analysts concluded that the drone was of “Iranian origin,” according to the Pentagon statement, which said the attack took place near Hasaka at 1:38 p.m. local time.
In response, at President Biden’s direction, Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III said he ordered airstrikes against facilities in eastern Syria used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, or I.R.G.C.
It’s a good bet that they’re of the Clintonesque ‘strikes on empty buildings’ variety.
“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,” Mr. Austin said. “No group will strike our troops with impunity.”
A time and place of our choosing is familiar verbiage. It goes back to Shakespeare’s King Lear. “I will do such things,— what they are, yet I know not: but they shall be the terrors of the earth.”
Iran clearly keeps attacking us with impunity.
Attacks by Iranian proxies against bases housing U.S. military personnel in Iraq and Syria are increasing, U.S. officials say, and Washington has not responded with force since 2021.
There were seven attacks in May, as many attacks that month as February, March and April combined, and there have been a total of 29 since October without a kinetic U.S. response.
Impunity. This is what it looks like.
Shakespeare’s King Lear. “I will do such things,— what they are, yet I know not: but they shall be the terrors of the earth.”
Such great use of the English language. I guess one has to be a native speaker to appreciate it.
Orwell said Tolstoy wrote a severe criticism aimed at demolishing Shakespeare. Yet Shakespeare became more popular than ever. I keep wondering if the fact that Tolstoy was not a native English speaker made it impossible for him to appreciate Shakespeare’s beautiful use of the English language.
Yes, that was a good quote of King Lear.
Agree. Thats why we repeat his words throughout the centuries.
Interesting that Tolstoy or anyone else (other than bored kids in middle school classes) did not appreciate the beautiful way the words expressed essential human experience.
Aye, there’s the rub.
I like Tolstoy. And especially Dostoevsky.
A 1000 to one ration is a good number to start the retaliation.
That’s the only language the islamic terrorists understand, and history proves it’s the only strategy that works.
Obliterate a couple of their bases, and/or armaments factories, especially those supporting drones.
Funny how dems had no problem with boy assad when Syria was arming AQ in Iraq, while they were killing Americans. Like with Quaddaffy, they only went after him when he was no longer a threat to us.
Americans should not be in Iraq in the first place.
Excuse me but isn’t Iran in the United Nations? If so then we have even better reason then to evict the whole UN from America and moved them all to Moscow