Posted on 08/29/2024 1:07:51 PM PDT by george76
The lives of American sailors were valued less than appeasing Iran..
The Biden-Harris administration has spent the past months pressuring Israel into surrendering to Hamas Islamic terrorists and to avoid offending Hezbollah to avoid ‘escalation’.
Now to be fair, this is also the same policy they’ve adopted for America.
After a Houthi attack on an oil tanker led to a leak into the water (mostly ignored or minimized by the same media which went nuts over the Exxon-Valdez spill), we have to ask again why the United States has spent 8 months trying to stop attacks by an Islamic terrorist group of Yemen on naval vessels. Why is it so hard?
The answer, as I wrote before, is that the Biden-Harris administration has banned the Navy from taking pro-active actions against the Iranian-backed terrorist group. US Navy vessels have spent eight months shooting down missiles and drones aimed at them, sometimes at the last second, but can’t carry the war to the enemy.
Now there’s once again confirmation that this is going on and an explanation of the unsurprising motive.
The U.S. Navy’s Carrier Strike Group Two was instructed to limit large-scale counterstrikes against Houthi rebels in order to avoid upsetting the delicate balance of deterrence with Iran, the CSG’s former commander suggested in an interview released Monday.
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower was in the thick of the counter-Houthi operation from the start, and at its peak, the carrier was launching fighters to up to nine events a day. Its pilots put in more than 30,000 flight hours and launched more than 60 air-to-air missiles. The destroyer escorts used up so many missiles that they had to set up a pierside resupply operation in nearby Yanbu, Saudi Arabia. It was all within the crew’s training, Miguez told former Navy commander and Youtuber Ward Carroll – except for the unexpected volume of Houthi unmanned aerial vehicles.
“Just the immense number of UAV interactions that we had, that was something that we did not holistically train to . . . not on the level that we had to encounter in combat,” he said.
Just protecting USS Eisenhower from attack was a significant endeavor. The carrier had at least two fighters up and nearby at all times to carry out air defense. If it couldn’t have its own fighters in the air, it drew on the resources of the U.S. Air Force, which would dispatch land-based planes to fly an equivalent force-protection mission around the carrier.
Initially, Eisenhower had freedom of movement within the operating area, but as time went on and Houthi attacks became more sophisticated, Miguez had to reposition in order to make the carrier a harder target. “For force protection, I had to move the carrier multiple times,” he said.
Eisenhower’s crew got to hit back at the Houthi threat with seven large coordinated strikes, working with the Air Force and with allied partners. “We were definitely degrading their capability,” Miguez said. But the task force was not permitted to bring is full might to bear against all targets.
“There are definite strategies that were put forward, but our National Command Authority decided that those – I would call more aggressive postures and more aggressive strikes – was not something we wanted to challenge,” Miguez said. “We all know Iranian-backed groups like the Houthis, where that threat’s emanating from . . . And so that is the calculus that’s handled at echelon zero, at the National Command Authority, with NSA, and everybody else. Those are things that I don’t dabble in.”
In short, political decisions were made that forced the USS Eisenhower to play sitting duck because they weren’t allowed to hit the terrorists hard to avoid offending Iran.
The Biden-Harris administration valued the lives of American sailors less than appeasing Iran.
They are about to attempt to bomb Iran to smithereens!
Insane. Did we learn nothing from Viet Nam?
The democrats won’t do anything that might drive up oil/gas prices, hence ignoring Iran.
Wouldn’t want to offend Obama’s favorite people now would we
Kambala would be so far in over her head if she was made president. Personally, I really don’t think America needs its first feminazi president that badly to risk the country by throwing a stiletto high heel-wearing, refugee showboat in the White House.
This is insane, from a U.S. perspective, but obvious if you are working at eliminating U.S. dominance.
There’s the answer to the question “Who’s running the country?”
Her initials are Val Jar.
He’s president right now, so what should we expect.
Iran backs the Houtis.
Iran backs Hezbollah.
Russia is allied with Iran.
China is allied with Iran.
Whatever we do in Yemen can impact the Israel / Palestinian conflict.
These are all chess pieces now in a much larger geopolitical conflict.
When we decided to start screwing with Russia we reopened a door closed in 1991. We will learn to regret having reopened this door.
I believe we HAVE to because our traitorous magic negro and his successors have done all they can to give them nuclear weapon capability which we KNOW they'll use on Israel...and it's allies.
We should keep in mind that the vast majority of the Iranian people are dominated by a minority Islamic mullah theocracy they wouldn't mind getting rid of. That theocracy has so many snitches woven through society that Iran resembles Cold War East Germany where fear of neighbors and even family stymied rebellion.
We should take out the mullahs with the precision the Israelis are using against Hamas before our Special Force operators are rendered useless by DEI brainwashing. Unlike the "Palestinians" raised to hate and believe lies from birth Iran still has a generation that remembers the advantages of Western civilization - so we shouldn't have to proceed as if all Iranians are mad dogs waiting for a turned back to knife.
Where every "civilian" in Gaza is just that. Just saying.
Or Korea?
Or Afghanistan?
Or Iraq?
Hey Israel,
Nuke Iran.
Unless you count cancelling oil drilling leases and pipelines in the United States.
I was referring to short term pre-election gas prices—-which explains also explains draining the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to keep prices down before the election.
Regards Iran,
They are a true enemy.
They have been since 1979: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis
Iran (((is))) a national security matter. Iran is not some “fashionable” war like Ukraine where we make up a bunch of BS reasons. Iran is our sworn enemy and works against us everywhere they can since 1979. They de facto waged a guerilla campaign against us in Iraq, they are a major antagonist regards Israel-Palestine and they support Hezbollah. They back the Houthi’s in Yemen...
We simply do not tackle this problem because we fear the repercussions. Which is ironic, we mess with Russia and aren’t worried about the blow-back there, but then tap dance around Iran.
Historically, Russia was reserved with what level of help / assistance they provide Iran. The Russians don’t trust nor really like them. But, Iran is a thorn in our side and the “enemy of your enemy is your friend.”
If we go after Iran, it needs to be a massive campaign to degrade them long term. We cannot realistically politically and economically isolate them since Russia and China will not play along. If we just do a small bombing to “send a message” they will recover quickly and retaliate.
This needs to be a “total war” style air campaign: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_war (anything shy of residential areas, hospitals, mosques and schools is a target)
Not just bomb military targets!
Bomb their government, key leaders, facilities (all government buildings even provincially), make it a point to take out (((all))) hardened facilities (you cannot hide). Key infrastructure, bridges, power generation, transmission lines, water purification plants, key rail routes, transformer stations, dams, runways (up heave them - make them hard to repair), sea ports. Key communications, switch stations, radio and cell towers, TV and radio stations, hit the major connection points to the outside world. Bomb their military industry (anything that produces military hardware). Bomb economic targets, refineries, wells, pipelines, factories, even take out agricultural / livestock (hit major processing plants, destroy fields...). Bomb transportation / logistics, aircraft at airfields including civilian, train engines and wagons, ships under their flag, barges, trucking depots, warehouses even civilian. Mine airfields, sea ports and tunnel entry points. Support all insurgent and opposition groups, drop trillions and trillions of Iranian Rial onto the country (literally make it rain money in the cities), EMP the populated / residential areas.
Make it a protracted bombing campaign where you keep hitting them over and over as new targets develop.
When this campaign is over, Iran needs to be a cripple (reduce the threat).
There are real threats and there is BS like Ukraine which is just political and economic interests.
Iran is a real threat.
They have been killing Americans since 1979 and there isn’t a year that goes by where the blood of our people isn’t on their hands.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Beirut_barracks_bombings
Literally, since 1979 we have been in a low intensity war with them, usually through Proxy. Example: The Iranians (Quds forces) advised and provided equipment (IR IED initiation systems, GPS, mortar rounds, sniper rifles) to this guy who was fighting us in Iraq: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muqtada_al-Sadr
We’re on the same page. Let’s see if reconstituted State and Defense Departments agree.
As the Bible repeatedly says the Jews are God’s chosen and Israel their birthright it seems the wise policy would be backing and protecting them. If one discounts religious dictates they should be preserved for the sake of keeping their Middle Eastern neighbors unstable and at each others’ throats.
I regret that Pretend-esident will likely die a natural death before making his final stumble up the gallows steps.
A Documentary about the Yemen Houthi support for Palestine, and their views about Israel, the Jews, and the United States.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qsQzKv1D4s
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