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Joe Biden’s Syria Airstrike Hit The Wrong Target
19FortyFive ^ | 2/26/2021 | Michael Rubin

Posted on 02/26/2021 7:21:10 AM PST by Onthebrink

The problem with the strike is two-fold, however. First, he hit the wrong target. Despite Bidens’s efforts to emphasize proportionality, the airstrike was not proportional; rather, it was less. A U.S. Embassy or an airport where U.S. forces reside are not the equivalent of a dusty outpost used as a tea stop for militiamen traversing from Iraq into Syria. Nor are U.S. forces the equivalent of an Iranian-backed militia. A proportional response would more directly target Iranian interests or property. The danger is not Iranian escalation, but rather the normalization of rocket attacks on embassies or airports. Iranian authorities might bluster—they certainly did after Operation Praying Mantis in 1988, or the deaths of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps missile chief Hassan Moghadam on November 13, 2011, Qods Force chief Qassem Soleimani on January 3, 2020, or nuclear chief Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in November 27, 2020—but hindsight shows such targeted strike do deter subsequent Iranian actions.

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TOPICS: Government; History; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: blogpimp; iran; joebiden; michaelrubin; middleeast; neocons; syria
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1 posted on 02/26/2021 7:21:10 AM PST by Onthebrink
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To: Onthebrink

Missed the White House?


2 posted on 02/26/2021 7:22:27 AM PST by brownsfan (Term limits! Without term limits, we are doomed.)
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To: Onthebrink

"I thought they were supposed to use paintballs!"


3 posted on 02/26/2021 7:23:36 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Republicans are the court jesters in the kingdom of liberalism)
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To: Onthebrink

Biden couldn’t hit his ass with both hands. Gonna be a long four years!


4 posted on 02/26/2021 7:24:11 AM PST by W. (Autocorrect must die! How do I kill it?!)
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To: W.

ChiCom Joe isn’t making it much further.

They all knew it. The drugs can’t be pumped into the declining crook much longer.


5 posted on 02/26/2021 7:26:09 AM PST by romanesq (TRUSTY THE PLAN! So ChiCom Joe is the Plan? Que magnificent! /s 👹.)
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To: Onthebrink

Maybe Biden thought he was playing level 42 of Mario Kart.


6 posted on 02/26/2021 7:27:06 AM PST by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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To: Onthebrink

He was aiming for CPAC


7 posted on 02/26/2021 7:27:14 AM PST by Tejas Rob
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To: Onthebrink

They intentionally hit the wrong targets so that could add to the Deep State’s narrative to get rid of Biden as he’s incompetent and dangerous.


8 posted on 02/26/2021 7:28:25 AM PST by dowcaet
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To: romanesq

I just don’t want to see Camel’s Asshair ascending to the residency. Laws, no!


9 posted on 02/26/2021 7:31:20 AM PST by W. (Autocorrect must die! How do I kill it?!)
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To: dowcaet

Camel Toes is pissed she was not told before launching


10 posted on 02/26/2021 7:31:48 AM PST by mplc51 ( )
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To: Onthebrink

I’m surprised the Democrats haven’t accused the pilot of being a “white supremacist”, trying to “make Biden look bad” for missing.

Violent paranoid screwballs the lot.


11 posted on 02/26/2021 7:31:57 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("All men and women were created by the, you know, you know, the thing." -- Joe Biden 3/3/20)
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To: Onthebrink

Aspirin and milk factory’s hit hardest.


12 posted on 02/26/2021 7:33:11 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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Joe was brought a target set, told a story and authorized it based on the intel brought in.

Who is feeding him this malarkey?


13 posted on 02/26/2021 7:34:55 AM PST by zek157
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To: W.

Gonna be a long four years!


Technically, yes, but that is because three and a half of them will be Harris years.


14 posted on 02/26/2021 7:35:45 AM PST by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: W.

M O O N..that spells kamalatoe


15 posted on 02/26/2021 7:35:48 AM PST by GeorgiaDawg32
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To: W.
I just don’t want to see Camel’s Asshair ascending to the residency.

I do. Part of the plan to take 'em all down.

Recall, President Trump's words of caution to Xiden in January that the 25thA may come to bite him. President Trump knew then how things were going to unfold.

Similarly, during his 1/6 speech how he mentioned while Pence could do the right thing, he had doubts Pence would do the right thing. Pence HAD to do the wrong thing. Similar now with the 25thA to put Commiela in as POTUS.

16 posted on 02/26/2021 7:37:57 AM PST by C210N (You can trust government or you can understand history. But you CANNOT do both.)
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To: Onthebrink

Good article, but I gather that the guy is a globalist neocon type.

Maybe the best thing would be to get the hell out and send them a ‘telegram’ from time to time, when indicated.


17 posted on 02/26/2021 7:39:15 AM PST by tsomer (Katy, bar the door!)
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To: Onthebrink

“What Biden did on February 25, unfortunately, was the equivalent of slapping a Band-Aid on the patient’s neighbor.”

And Biden’s people chose the dumb target


18 posted on 02/26/2021 7:41:43 AM PST by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: W.

“I just don’t want to see Camel’s Asshair ascending to the residency.”

Mistress Kamala was always the Obamunist-Deep State plan.

Hopefully, FRiends are praying because we can’t win this fight alone.
We need His divine intercession as they are burying our nation.


19 posted on 02/26/2021 7:42:00 AM PST by romanesq (TRUSTY THE PLAN! So ChiCom Joe is the Plan? Que magnificent! /s 👹.)
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To: dowcaet
Perhaps.

It took eight replies before we could get out of the stupid attempts at humor replies.

There may be differences about the identification of who, but it is generally accepted that biden/harris are NOT president and veep.

After four years of global peace, respect of dictator and freeman alike for President Trump, and the exploding success of the re-emerged united states of America ... we find ourselves knocking on the door of sending thousands of our best and brightest (volunteers under President Trump) to a place we have no business in.


DAMN the Supreme Court !

20 posted on 02/26/2021 7:42:33 AM PST by knarf (The Constitution protects the right to peaceably assemble, not to protest)
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