The military-industrial complex is back in the saddle again. My latest in FrontPage:
In December, I wrote an article entitled: “Here We Go: Swamp Rats Start Laying the Groundwork for Sending U.S. Troops Into Syria.” And in January, I wrote an article entitled: “Back to the Endless Wars: US Military Convoy Enters Northeast Syria.” And here we are. CNN reported Friday that “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 told CNN.” There are, of course, no estimates of how many American troops will be killed in Syria pursuing the Biden team’s internationalist agenda.
The self-anointed foreign policy and military experts who are now in charge struck without even knowing exactly whether they were hitting what they wanted to hit. CNN noted that the site of the airstrikes “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.” Well, that’s that, then: the political elites’ foreign policy exponents, from John Kerry to Ben Rhodes, have done so very much to inspire confidence, who could possibly doubt that they know what they’re doing?
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby claimed improbably that the strikes took place “at President Biden’s direction,” and were designed to deal with “ongoing threats” to U.S. forces in Syria. “Specifically,” Kirby explained, “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. The operation sends an unambiguous message; President Biden will act to protect American coalition personnel. At the same time, we have acted in a deliberate manner that aims to de-escalate the overall situation in both Eastern Syria and Iraq.”
Here is a better way to protect American troops in Syria and Iraq, and de-escalate the overall situation in both countries: get out and end these pointless military misadventures that serve no genuine American interest.
In any case, since we know that Biden is not going to pursue “America First” policies, that this strike does not benefit America or Americans, and was not intended to.
The Islamic State (ISIS) is resurgent in Syria, but Biden’s handlers didn’t strike the Islamic State. They struck instead at two Iranian-backed groups, which is essentially to strike at Assad. This was in order to placate one of Biden’s handlers’ constituencies: the Muslim Brotherhood network in the U.S., which hates Assad and has for years been trying to compel the U.S. to topple him. However, it antagonizes the Iranians, which Biden’s handlers also intend to appease.
All this could backfire on the handlers in a big way. But in the short term, it will likely lead to a new round of concessions and pot-sweeteners for the Iranian mullahs, all at the expense of the American taxpayer, of course. In the meantime, South Korea got the ball rolling. Korea Timesreported Tuesday that “the Iranian assets locked in South Korea will be released after consultations with the United States, the foreign ministry said Tuesday, after Iran claimed it has reached a deal with Seoul on how to transfer and use the frozen money.”
The South Koran foreign ministry announced: “Our government has been in talks with Iran about ways to use the frozen assets,” which amount to $7 billion, “and the Iran side has expressed its consent to the proposals we have made. The actual unfreezing of the assets will be carried out through consultations with related countries, including the United States.”
Korea Times noted that according to a South Korean foreign ministry official, “Seoul was finalizing talks with Washington about using some of the frozen funds to pay Tehran’s U.N. dues in arrears, to which the Islamic republic has also agreed.”
So the bombs are falling in Syria and the money is flowing once again to Tehran, and both the Muslim Brotherhood lobby and the Iranian mullahs are happy. All is well again. America is back.
Wellington says
Eisenhower would be most displeased.
Sabri S. says
And it will have the same disastrous results for America and its zionist allies. You would think you racist, imperialist filth would get enough of killing innocent men, women and children, but I guess your “chickens coming home to roost” have not arrived yet. America is doomed as long as white supremacy rules your “foreign policy”. As I have stated before, lebanon 1983 knew best how to deal with America in the only language it understands. Allah U Akbar.
Giacomo Latta says
(yawn)
john smith says
Absolutely brilliant reply Giacomo, yawn seconded.
gravenimage says
Note that Sabri S. in addition to applauding murdering Infidels that he is also a big advocate of Muslims beating women in the streets and “Honor Killing” their children. In other words, a good Muslim.
CogitoErgoSum says
Congratulations to all those who think the same way as Sabri S. and who hated Donald Trump and mailed in their vote (numerous times) for Joe Biden just because Biden was not Trump. Don’t those bombs make a beautiful sound as they blow things apart. Yeah, let’s hear a round of applause (between explosions) for Joe Biden, the most popular President in U.S. history … and the man with the killer smile.
Andrew Blackadder says
Your goat is ready for you sir…. allo snackbar… shag shag…
gravenimage says
Biden’s Handlers Bomb Syria: The Military-Industrial Complex is Back in the Saddle Again
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Does Biden even have a goal here?
Infidel says
He’s cancelling half a trillion worth of arms deals w/ the Saudis b’cos… Khashoggi, but in the meantime, he’s recommitting troops not just to Afghanistan, but also Iraq and Syria. All while cancelling the economic activities that made us independent of those troglodytes for the first time in history
Had President Xi installed a plant in DC to do his bidding, he couldn’t have done better
gravenimage says
I don’t think we should be arming any Jihadists, Infidel–the Saudis are not our allies.
But, as Wellington notes, the only real plan Biden appears to have is conseling everything President Trump did–which overall *does not* bode well for us.
James Lincoln says
gravenimage,
Interestingly, pretend Pres. Biden has decided to not tear down the physical wall.
He has, however, halted construction – and has dismantled the “legal” wall…
gravenimage says
True, James.
Infidel says
Even if we stopped selling the weapons, there was no good reason to end the Keystone Pipeline, or the fracking, or the ANWR drilling. All of these have been targeted by the Kerry Green New Deal gang
LB says
Graven, James and Infidel,
Please stop referring to Biden as if he has any say in all of this. He is a senile old man whose brain is about 80% (a generous estimate on my part) rotted from old age and dementia. Instead, like Robert Spencer, refer to his handlers which reside deep within the Swamp. They are calling all the shots.
Thank you.
Infidel says
LB
I tend to agree w/ you: the old Biden would have been more like a John McCain or a Chuck Schumer or a Chris Dodd. This administration looks like it’s being remotely run by Barack Hussein O!, as the late, great Rush Limbaugh used to call him
James Lincoln says
Agree, LB.
I guess I thought that it was just common knowledge that Sleepy Joe was not calling the shots…
gravenimage says
Likely so, LB.
roberta says
I think the title gives the answer.
Ive been audiobooking (librivox-ing) quite a bit of Machiavelli lately.
It seems that the military industrial complex became a problem some time around the first time a king raised an army.
Relic says
Yippee-ki-eh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKayG1TrfuE
Lorensacho says
Trump couldn’t put money into the military fast enough so he too was part of the military Industrial complex.
spiro says
4 years with no new wars
Rebuilding the military that Obama left with little maintenance and worn out
Equipment
Just like Clinton
Unfortunately the deep state got ride of Trump before he could get the job done why they were scared of what he knew
gravenimage says
+1
roberta says
Strong enough military to deter war, strong enough leader to keep the Generals from getting us into war.
In times of peace a military seems to be a unneeded financial burden, and Generals unimportant. But if there is a war_______ (you know the rest)
Infidel says
You need a powerful and overwhelming military to deter war: it’s the same argument as the need to have a nuclear arsenal in the 80s, and the need for the Space Force today (which Jen Psaki seems to think is there to greet Darth Vader). If you don’t, you end up ceding that domination to China, or possibly, even Russia
However, just b’cos we have a huge military doesn’t mean that we need to have a military presence in 150+ countries around the world. We should have the bulk of our troops here at home, and have some in the Indo-Pacific region to prevent the Chinese from controlling all the shipping lanes in the region. Even less justified is continuing our military presence in countries that not only hate us, but are even economically less strategic to us, now that we are a major oil producer (even if Biden and Kerry are doing their best to undo that)
b.a. freeman says
unfortunately, Infidel, president comma laharris has canceled fracking on federal land. what most don’t realize is that after the rock around a wellshaft has been hydraulically fractured, the well’s output increases – greatly – only for a few months; after that, it must be fracked again. in other words, comma laharris’s puppet signed an executive order that SHUTS DOWN all old oil and gas wells on federal land. the oil we will be buying in 6 months will be foreign oil, thanks to these nazi traitors.
gravenimage says
Agree, Roberta and Infidel.
Lyle Joseph Hartman says
I believe that there is prophecy that the oldest continuously occupied city (Damascus) in the world will be destroyed.
Andrew Blackadder says
I thought the Worlds oldest continually inhabited City was Varanasi in India, directly on the Holy Ganges River, also known as Benares.
Andrew Blackadder says
The Left and the Democrats really need to stop calling themselves as “Progressive” or ” Liberal” as they are neither but are rather “Regressive” and Fascist”.
“If Fascism was to ever come to America, it will come disguised as Liberalism”.. Ronald Reagan.