“Shouldn’t our Intelligence have picked up beforehand that an attack was brewing, and reinforcements been in place to meet it?”
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Sometimes, even with the best of personnel and equipment, something will get by. As long as it’s not a habit.
There’s a timeline that puts the whole thing together. Last week, some Iranian militia called Hezbollah (not the same as the one in Lebanon) mortared a couple of American FOBs and that killed an American contractor.
Trump then ordered a retaliatory strike, Sunday night, and F-15Es, Strike Eagles (which carry a Adam Schitt ton of ordnance), hit several of these Hezbollah camps in Iraq and Syria, killing a bunch (even their Iranian “vice commander”) and blowing up a huge ammo dump.
The Iraqi president got all hot under the collar and yesterday condemn our strikes. This really fanned the flames, as a few hours later, they staged protest that turned into an embassy takedown attempt. My sense is the Iraqi government was at fault and approved the initial protest, which quickly got out-of-hand. It was only after Trump called him and told him to knock it off or the US would “deal” with it that the Iraqi gov. sent their national guard in to stop it.
F the Iraqi President, the “protestors, Hezbollah and the Iranians! But in my opinion, the embassy attack is the Iraqi President’s fault.