Posted on 01/07/2024 10:19:53 PM PST by Angelino97
Iranian-backed proxies have attacked U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria at least 150 times since President Joe Biden took office, two U.S. defense officials tell VOA.
More than a third of those attacks have occurred in the last month, marking a clear surge in violence against U.S. forces in the region.
Asked on March 28 about the number of Iranian-backed attacks on U.S. forces in the Middle East during the Biden administration, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told members of the Senate Armed Services Committee that there had been 83 attacks.
Defense officials told VOA on Friday that Iranian proxies carried out seven attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria between March 29 and October 17.
There have been 61 additional attacks against U.S. forces there since October 17, including attacks at three U.S. bases Friday. A one-way drone attack at Tal Baydar in Syria on Friday damaged infrastructure at the base and wounded one service member, who was medevaced off base but has since returned to duty.
Most of the attacks since October 17 were disrupted by the U.S. military or failed to reach their targets, causing no casualties or damage to infrastructure, according to the military. But a handful of attacks have left more than 60 U.S. military personnel with injuries, ranging from shrapnel wounds to perforated eardrums and traumatic brain injuries. Officials say all of the injured have returned to duty.
One U.S. contractor at al-Asad Air Base in Iraq suffered a cardiac episode and died while sheltering in place during a false alarm for an air attack.
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And apparently the SecDef has been in the hospital in intensive care since Dec 22nd. Biden didn’t even know for DAYS. Nobody knows who’s in charge at the whitehouse. Who’s doing the daily briefing? There’s full scale wars going on in multiple places around the globe. Biden is off hunting down ice cream so he can sniff out his grandchildren. Is he even in attendance at these meetings? Do we get to see the logs? This is the Secretary of Defense! The World is on fire and the President of the United States is literally out of touch with his Secretary of Defense for days. It’s insane.
I've long expressed the view that no one person is in charge. Our executive branch has deteriorated into fiefdoms and cliques, with various generals, secretaries, departments all doing their own thing.
They're often on the same page in a broad policy sense (open borders), but often don't know what each other is doing, and sometimes even disagree and pull in opposite directions.
Two people are running the country. Obama and “ValJar’’ aka Valarie Jarrett.
As it turns out, the countries of Syria and Iraq are sitting on our oil.
"Our" oil?
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