The new age warfare where booby traps and mines do the fighting instead of the Infantry. Maybe we can buy some of these from Putin.
Posted on 02/27/2021 11:32:02 AM PST by Rummyfan
The Biden administration is trying to set some rules in its negotiations about negotiations with Iran. But the first rule of the Middle East is that there are no rules. There are only balances of force and fear. And this is why Iran will defeat the US in Syria just as it has already defeated the US in Iraq.
Like a tourist in a foreign restaurant, the administration knows just enough of the local lingo to order the wrong thing. After years in the region, American strategists have absorbed the crude calculus of force: to be taken seriously, they reason, we have to respond to the rocket attack on an airbase in northern Iraq earlier this month, which killed a military contractor and wounded a US serviceman.
The US has also absorbed the calculus of fear. Much as America’s politicians and generals pretend otherwise, the US was defeated in Iraq years ago. The winner was Iran and its Shia allies.
Why didn’t the US retaliate for an attack on Americans in Iraq by hitting Iran’s proxies in Iraq? Because of fear. The US is afraid of further attacks on its remaining forces in Iraq. It’s afraid of losing what little influence it still has over the Iraqi government. And it’s afraid of returning Iraq to civil war.
The US is right to fear and avoid all these outcomes. The US would be even righter if it avoided Iraq entirely, instead of leaving 2,500 servicemen there as sitting ducks. But a tough guy like Joe Biden isn’t going to tell the American people that the US has been thoroughly defeated in Iraq by Iranian IEDs, Sunni self-detonators and its own imperial vanity.
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Like a drum
Like a red headed step sniffer
“And this is why Iran will defeat the US in Syria just as it has already defeated the US in Iraq.”
All in just over a month.
Like taking candy from a baby - Baby Biden.
As Biden assures Europe, “We are back...”, hundreds of
millions of us know where (what) back was, and this isn’t it.
Dementia has already beaten Biden
Its ridiculous and our domestic enemies the socialist democrats know it, and our foreign enemies know it
if they cared about us security theyd stop this crap now
So, we ended up getting back in to Iraq--so save it for Iran. Obama compounded his errors by getting us into Syria "on the ground." And then the Swamp succeeded in preventing The Donald from extricating us from Syria.
Unfortunately, this commentator fails to articulate a palatable alternative strategy to the bumbling of the Manchurian Presidency.
I had posted here on Free Republic in an article about how we were fighting in Iraq under the Bush administration , it is the McNamara method of going in and out of the camps and never holding the land obtained....the treasure and blood lost in these Godless muzzie deserts was never meant to achieve anything and then sotoreo/hussein (bama) did his muslim best to perpetuate the Military industrial complex and all the while doing his best for the satanic muzzies. Biden is a shell and has illegally obtained the oval office just like sotoreo/hussein ....Biden didn’t order this useless attack being portrayed as show of resolve...all theater . President Trump knows how to deal with these sand dwellers and he had the balls to do ...we are getting robbed ONCE again in broad daylight.
We are collapsing right here, right now. We should entirely leave the Middle East and Afghanistan
Biden forfeited on Day One. He was never even in the game.
Obama gave victory to Iran. Biden is Obama’s fourth term. Iran will have a nuke on Biden’s watch and the media will still blame Trump.
The new age warfare where booby traps and mines do the fighting instead of the Infantry. Maybe we can buy some of these from Putin.
Like taking candy from a stooopid baby with dementia...
What the author, and Iranians possibly fail to consider is they never “beat” the DS. Whatever transpires is prepackaged to defeat the American taxpayer. Who lives or dies is irrelevant until the DS is destroyed!
I would think the world knows Biden is not in charge.
The man doesn’t know what day it is let alone handle world affairs.
He is an extension of the idiots that voted for him.
You don’t have to defeat what you can simply buy.
US policy since 1979 was containment of Iran and Shia power. Sunni Saddam Hussein was the key bulwark against that. As Kissinger said about the Iran-Iraq war “with luck, they will both lose.”
So what exactly were Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Perle and all the wretched neocons thinking that somehow, with Hussein overthrown and minority Sunni rule destroyed, that Iran woundn't take over? Their stupidity is breathtaking.
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