Welcome to FR, Newbie.
It is new. It is an attack on Iraq, where there
was peace developing until Pres_ _ent Obama decided
to -—once again-— help every single enemy of America.
No it´s not new (the only “new” is that this time it was Iran instead of turkey... which bombed them. as said before turkey is doing exactly the same for years now (leaving about 35.000 people dead in the last 30 years)... so as said before turkish war planes often “violate” iraqi air space to bomb the Kurds and the US and iraqi government do nothing to stop this. so why should they now stop Iran doing exactly the same? It would be a diplomatic nightmare for the US if they stop Iran as long as they don´t stop turkey doing exactly the same.
So you admit this attack on Iraq by Iran IS NEW.
It is secondary to American weakness due to Pres_ _ent Obama.
They don't hold Iran's prior involvement in attacks against US forces in Iraq against them.
After all, why should protecting those forces from declared enemies be as important a showing those enemies that we treat them the same as allies - no matter what the consequences?
be as important a showing = be as important aS showing