Posted on 01/29/2024 5:29:18 AM PST by SJackson
Iran’s terror militias launched a wave of rocket attacks against American soldiers in Iraq and Syria under Biden. There were dozens of these attacks last year alone.
In the spring of 2023, Scott Patrick Dubis, a 52-year-old military contractor who had worked on U.S. military bases in Afghanistan, Kuwait and Qatar, was killed by an Iranian backed attack.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin responded by promising that, “as President Biden has made clear, we will take all necessary measures to defend our people and will always respond at a time and place of our choosing. No group will strike our troops with impunity.”
But Iran and its Jihadi proxy militias could and did go on attacking our troops with impunity.
We launched a few light airstrikes for show and the attacks went on. American personnel kept being wounded in Iranian attacks and sometimes we responded and sometimes we didn’t.
After the latest wave of attacks and responses, the Shiite regime in Baghdad demanded that the United States leave Iraq. And Biden, obediently, began negotiating the withdrawal.
Now, three US Army soldiers were killed and over 30 were wounded in an Iranian-backed drone attack on a position on the Jordanian-Syrian border. This is the worst death toll in some time.
A few months after the Shiite Islamic regime in Tehran commemorated the takeover of the U.S. embassy with chants of “Death to America”, it succeeded in inflicting more death on Americans.
Biden has issued a statement vowing that, once again, “we will hold all those responsible to account at a time and in a manner of our choosing.” Like Austin’s previous statement after the murder of Scott Dubis, that means that no one should expect a quick meaningful response.
The message to Iran and its Islamic terrorists is that they have nothing to worry about. And Iran’s message to us is that we can never pull out far enough until we have surrendered the entire region, the rest of the world and then finally our own country to the enemy.
In the spring of 2020, Army Spc. Juan Miguel Mendez Covarrubias and Air Force Staff Sgt. Marshal D. Roberts, as well as Lance Corporal Brodie Gillon, a British female medic, were killed in an attack by the Shiite Iran-backed militias. Roberts died trying to save a female comrade.
And the attacks just keep right on coming.
When Biden came into office, Iran had a pretty good lock on Iraq, Lebanon and Syria. Then Biden allowed it to seize control over Yemen. During the winter break, it used its Houthi strongholds in Yemen to hijack shipping in the Red Sea. While Biden was out of office and Austin was in the hospital, it seized a channel used by a third of the world’s container ships.
Much as in Iraq and Syria, Biden responded with limited airstrikes that fell far short of ending the threat while conducting a 30 day review before possibly bringing back sanctions on the Houthis. And the Houthis have since managed to hit an oil tanker while global shipping costs have doubled and shipping war risk insurance premiums have skyrocketed many times over.
The same pattern of failure that had played out in Iraq is now playing out in the Red Sea.
After retreating in the Red Sea, Iran has decided to push the frontiers of terror all the way to the Jordanian border. Jordan is a key intersection, a Saudi client state that shares a border with Israel, whose ‘Palestinian’ population would prefer to be ruled by the Muslim Brotherhood. The Brotherhood’s arms include Hamas and its state sponsor, Qatar, is an ally of Iran.
Iran is serious about winning and we are not. It has a plan and we do not. Every tentative response that we make telegraphs the fact that we are afraid to attack it. The Biden administration emphasizes that its strikes are measured, defensive and come with warnings.
Our terrorist enemies however have no such fears or concerns. They hit us where they can.
The Biden administration and the foreign policy apparatus lives in fear of “expanding the war” while Iran seeks to expand the war as far as it can. When one side wants to expand the war while the other fears any escalation, the outcome is a cycle of retreats and defeats.
Every time Iran attacks, we retreat, and every time we retreat, it pushes harder. Negotiations, sanctions relief and diplomacy have failed miserably. The so-called “moderates” have been pushed out in Iran and the new regime burned them along with their American puppets like Biden’s Iran envoy Robert Malley, who was outed by Iran regime outlets, as it prepares for war.
October 7 was only one of the points of Iran’s Jihadist ‘blitzkrieg’ across the region as it prepares to become the dominant power in the Middle East. And while it was devastating to Israelis, it may be less significant than the takeover of the Red Sea or its existing nuclear program, under which it now has enough enriched uranium to build several nuclear warheads, its simultaneous launch of three satellites or its ballistic missile program that can deliver nukes.
All of this foreshadows a struggle on a grand scale that will test America and the world.
Much like WWII, this crisis could have been averted through geopolitical maneuvers, maximum pressure, limited intervention and other tools that were never properly used. Instead Obama attempted to cut a nuclear deal with Iran that he knew was worthless. Biden resumed efforts to restore the deal even though Tehran by then had achieved enough of its goals that it demanded only billions in cash while offering nothing in return but contempt, threats and terror attacks.
The killings of three American soldiers is only the latest consequence of these policies.
Iran got lucky in its Tower 22 attack in Jordan, but the attacks could have also been worse. While American soldiers deployed in Iraq and Syria are used to rocket alerts and quickly run to shelter, those in Tower 22 had not gotten into that same habit. A large stream of rockets or missiles could have inflicted much worse casualties than those 3 dead or 30 wounded.
And that leaves out the possibility that we have yet to consider.
On Oct 7, Israeli soldiers braced for rocket attacks by retreating into shelters only to face a massive assault by thousands of armed Jihadis overrunning their positions under the cover of rockets. Israel wasn’t ready for that kind of attack and the real question is are we ready?
Iran will keep testing and pushing us. And if we fail to take the initiative, the attack will come.
We were not ready for the seizure of our embassy in Tehran. We were not ready for the Marine Barracks bombings in Beirut. We were not ready for 9/11. We were not ready for the fall of Kabul. We were not ready for the takeover of shipping in the Red Sea near Yemen.
What aren’t we ready for next? We only have so much time to wait around and find out.
Wars are fought on by taking the offensive or holding defensive positions. When you are always defending, then you allow the enemy to take the initiative and then you have to find out what comes next.
If we don’t take the offensive, we will have to wait to find out how bad the next attack will be.
What else would they be talking about? Fox is a "neo-conservative"/globalist propaganda tool. I'm sure Lindsey Graham has a slot booked on every Fox program for the next 30 days just to talk about this.
“The JAF instructors will lead training on infantry, mortar, sniper, and medic specialties over the course of 14 weeks to prepare the 4th Prince Hassan Mechanized Battalion for future operations, including border defense.”
So a 14 week long training course somehow morphed into a decades long debacle that’s getting Americans killed.
Utter bull****.
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Then why did Joe Biden send Iran billions? And why did Republicans allow him to send billions? And why did Republicans not impeach and remove Joe Biden? Before the flag is waved in my face, answer those questions.
Yes, and anti-Christian history in Iran goes back to when it was conquered by Muslims roughly between 632 and 654. Persia was mostly Zoroastrian, and the Zoroastrian religion was gradually reduced to a non-entity by the late middle ages.
Funny how you leave out the part of this sort of thing going on for decades:
“Jordan has experienced different kinds of threats in the past few decades, who have used terrorism to advance their political agendas,” said Col. Raad Alamairah, who spoke on behalf of the JAF. “During this time, many friends from all around the world have come to Jordan to assist in defending our borders and eliminating these threats. The U.S. is among the best to have come to support our objectives."
The people screaming "Death to America" are globalists right here in the United States.
1. Because President Joe Biden is a traitor to the United States and is paid off by a number of our adversaries. In addition, it is part of the President Obama plan to destroy and destabilize the United States.
2. Because the Congress was controlled by the Democrats for two years, and the Deep State has control of a number of Republicans through various methods.
3. Because they don't have the numbers to impeach him and the Senate will not convict him.
There are plenty of them, to be sure. They are aligned with the Iranians, Russians, Venezuelans, Chinese, and North Koreans.
“What’s this gonna cost the US citizen?”
Same as every war in the past 80 wars. Higher gas prices, military lives, ultimately defeat and humiliation
I don’t doubt that we are the best that’s come to “aid” Jordan.
My question is why aren’t they stopping the incoming missiles that are killing our troops? Aren’t they responsible for providing security to their guests?
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Well, OK. LOL.
This website has been filled with articles over the last 15+ years about U.S. military activity in Syria against the Assad regime. The idea that U.S. troops are stationed in Jordan on its Syrian border for benign purposes is comical on its face.
On the border, it is a strange location for benign purposes isn’t it.
They're aligned with Ukraine, Kanada, Australia, Germany, Brussels, coincidence countries, and of course entities that cross borders such as the UN, the World Economic Forum (WEF), and the World Death Organization (WHO).
They (globalists) have plenty of influence in those countries, just as they have in the USA. Yes, they do not have our best interests in mind. They want the USA destroyed/degraded, much as the Iranians, Russians, Venezuelans, Chinese, and North Koreans.
The WHO is basically taken over by the Chinese.
60 attacks here. 90 attacks there. Who cares when Trump is a threat to democraseeeee
That is exactly my position. Why the hell are there U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria?
Stand up?..he (secret committee of olagarchs) supports the enemies of our American way of life.
Globalist interests are white washed by the MSM today and historically discounted as conspiracy theories until that could not longer reasonably be done with Davos (WEF) and all. Even in 2010 if you had talked about globalism like people accept as a new and real paradigm today, you would have been seen as a wacko conspiracy theorist.
The globalist agenda wants the free movement of people (labor), goods, information (which they control), money, capital equipment, services and resources.
Concepts like nationality are an obstacle.
The idea of race is an obstacle.
Religion is an obstacle.
These things teach you “true” values, that something is more important than another, that something is right and another wrong, or that one thing beautiful and the other ugly. Values cause you to create boundaries / limits in behaviors that run contrary to the globalist agenda. The idea of a nation means borders, true sovereign law making... Religion teaches you right and wrong and that is not in sync with the new idea of right and wrong, just like the idea of race teaches you who you are and where you come from...
That’s exactly the opposite of what those folks meeting at WEF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Economic_Forum the UN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headquarters_of_the_United_Nations Or the Netherlands: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilderberg_Meeting want to achieve.
In their perfect world, you hire a bunch of Indians, bring them to the US to replace all the workers, pay them 1/3 less, give them no rights (visa is job tied), and the American worker better train his replacement, or else he’ll get fired (for cause) and not even be eligible for severance and unemployment: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/last-task-after-layoff-at-disney-train-foreign-replacements.html And if you say anything, you’re a “RACIST!”
Of course in the process, these people and institutions will be put in leading roles, becoming the new pigs on the Animal Farm, only from this farm there is no escape.
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