While we are still waiting for a US response to the Iran-backed attack that killed three US soldiers in Jordan on Sunday, it is doubtful that any meaningful attack is even being planned.
Much of the media seemed satisfied with President Biden’s hollow “yes” to reporters’ questions on Tuesday about whether he had decided to take action. President Biden responded on the spot, adding that he did not want a major war.
Later that week, news emerged that the federal government had cleared the Iraqi Islamic Resistance Movement (IRI) of the attack, suggesting that the presidential administration may order a severe attack on an umbrella group of Iranian proxy militias. Ta.
But that’s not enough.
Iranian proxies have launched more than 150 attacks on U.S. forces in recent months, prompting Biden’s pinprick response and purported private message (and empty public message) to Iran. (Please stop!) However, the momentum did not stop.
Sooner or later, one of them go Getting through it — why didn’t the White House plan a response in advance?
Or was the plan to do as little as possible?
In other words, talk loud for domestic consumption, but carry a small stick.
This has been Biden’s approach for weeks, when the correct response was to treat every attack as if it were an attack. had Killed US military personnel: All I’ve tried After all, to do so.
And every attack without an answer (and no, even firing missiles at vacant terrorist warehouses and other things that are not considered a serious answer) only invites more attacks.
A slap in the face to the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force will not be accepted. or Not to mention 160 Marines.
And it’s not a genuine response unless it’s done loudly, publicly, and loudly to ensure that the message gets across, not just in Tehran, but everywhere.
by all by its agents, and by anyone else who seeks to attack Americans.
Oh, and part of the pro-Biden damage control here was to “explain away” the deadly success of this attack as a “tweet.”
As a U.S. military drone was scheduled to return, it appears that someone in charge of air defense at the base became momentarily confused when the drone approached.
Even if it’s true, don’t blame the soldier who became the scapegoat. Blame the boss for putting an individual in that position — all From superior officers to the commander-in-chief.
As for the fear of escalation that the president so often expresses, as I’ve said before, Iran It has escalated anyway and will continue to do so at least Until we have real reason to worry about how it will escalate.
By the way, the Iranian government won’t care how many proxies we kill. As long as our own military is safe, we are satisfied.
On the other hand, it is do Fear of those forces being drawn in: While finishing the mad dash to nuclear weapons capability and The government is negotiating a transition to a new “supreme leader” (Khamenei is 84 years old), but the last thing he wants is instability in the country.
As Retired Admiral Mark Montgomery pointed out in the Post, minimum The current response is “sustained strikes against all Iranian proxy targets that can be found in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen” and “sustained strikes against hundreds of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps troops in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen.”
Oh, and “destroy Revolutionary Guard warships providing targeting information to the Houthis in Yemen.”
Biden has been conducting coordinated attacks for months to warn opponents of our actions. did it Please do them. Unless he starts showing them we are. intention If people react on a mass scale, he will ensure the death of even more men and women sworn to protect our country.
