Posted on 02/26/2021 6:10:50 AM PST by caww
The US military on Thursday struck a site in Syria used by two Iranian-backed militia groups in response to rocket attacks on American forces in the region in the past two weeks....."Up to a handful" of militants were killed in the strikes, a US official said.
The strikes, which mark the US military's first known action under President Joe Biden, swiftly drew criticism from a Democratic lawmaker. The site was not specifically tied to the rocket attacks but Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said he was "confident" it was used by the same Iranian-backed Shia militias that had fired rockets at US and coalition forces.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the strikes took place "at President Biden's direction" and were authorized not just to respond to the recent attacks against American and coalition forces but also to deal with "ongoing threats to those personnel."
"Specifically, the strikes destroyed multiple facilities located at a border control point used by a number of Iranian-backed militant groups, including Kata'ib Hezbollah and Kata'ib Sayyid Al Shuhada," Kirby said.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said that Biden had authorized the strike on Thursday morning, after he had recommended the president take action.
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Well how ya like that. These people need to change their party name to hypocrat.
There’s many tweets but far as I can see she hasn’t posted anything since Jan.
Well, we’ll have to see if Iran protests.
If not...then the democrats are doing what they do best.
Virtue signaling ...but with bombs.
Frankly I doubt this hurt Iran in any way, given biden admin’s desperate groveling to Iran to reopen the JCPOA.
The Pentagon is not playing by Iranian rules.
Iran can be attacked anywhere they exist. Hit us and we will come get you
Proportionality is for cowardly girls
when they told Biden they were going to attack Syria, he said good, he wanted to have Flak Cereal
Ever notice how quiet the Muslim Brotherhood and its American propaganda arm, CAIR, have been? Between Al Sisi taking back Egypt and putting them all in prison, the relationship that President Trump had with Al Sisi and the fact that DJT eliminated ISIS from the picture in about 6 months, they’ve both been nonexistent
The MB isn’t well liked in the region and they need some real estate from which to operate. Once they lost Egypt they went after Syria. And Syria has oil, so they’ll have a revenue stream.
This is all Soetero trying to take care of his buddies so they can try and set up shop again.
Joe moved US troops and tanks into Syria 2 days after he was sworn in. His goal was to reignite the war. Say what you will about Trump, but he pushed back against the Industrialized military complex. Joe works directly for the complex. Plus a war takes all scrutiny off of him for his failures.
I won’t argue with that....But they are going to test Biden who they all see, understandably, as weak. Plus Iran is going to play Biden against Saudi.
Well their and Obamas plan was to Install MB Leadership throughout the middle East because they falsely believe they can control them. Al Sisi taking back Egypt trumped their effort so they did go after Assad then.....
We’ll have to just watch and see how soon CAIR and others might raise their ugly heads again.
Ok. But what was just bombed?
Austin says the locations weren’t tied to the attacks.
I understand that the intel we get, whether human or electronic source, is only as good as analysts say it is and we make “informed decisions”’based on that. Sometimes we can 100% verify, sometimes not.
Were all of the military strike that DJT authorized 100% accurate? IDK. But ISIS disappeared within about 6 months or less, so they must have been doing something right.
DJT was bringing Iran to its knees. Harris and CornPop want to prop them up again. They say they hit Iranian backed militias, but are going to give Iran money and get back in the Iran agreement that Soetero got us into. Seems pretty bipolar to me.
Do they think they can control them or are they in partnership with them?
I go with the latter.
Meanwhile, the Biden handlers are trying to restart the Iran nuclear, “deal”.
Well they’re all about control so yes.....however they have to appear to them they’re in a partnership.
Joining the military in this day and age means being used as a tool to further globalism. Young men and women need to be warned about how our government views them.
Our entire family has served but today I would not encourage my sons to enlist. Thank God they’ve done their duty when it mattered and are out.
Libya turned out so well, newly minted slave markets & all.
They should change the army’s headgear to a kippah...
I love that two different EMPLOYEES had to say that BIDEN authorized it - no kidding! Brilliant people there! Kirby is back on the job - he’s as useless as Fauci...
This is not good. I do not believe we are secure at all. God forbid something should happen on US soil.
Yep, big money and future jobs for retire politicians, generals....
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