A U.S. contractor was killed and another contractor and five U.S. service members were injured
There are stories that the media covers and stories that the media covers up.
This doesn’t always mean not reporting the story at all. Sometimes it’s just a matter of what things the media keeps talking about and what it quickly ushers off the stage.
How many people do you think know that Iran keeps attacking American military personnel?
This was from last year.
There were repeated Iran-backed rocket strikes against Americans in Iraq throughout the last year totaling an estimated 25 separate attacks under the Biden administration.
These attacks have mostly gone unpunished.
While Iran and the media eagerly link the latest wave of Iranian attacks on American forces to the death of General Soleimani, they conveniently forget that the U.S. took him out in response to multiple attacks such as these, including the 2019 rocket attack that killed an American contractor and wounded four American servicemen, and the attempt by Iranian proxies to recreate Benghazi with an attack on our embassy in Baghdad.
And it keeps happening. Americans keep dying.
A U.S. contractor was killed and another contractor and five U.S. service members were injured when a self-destructing drone struck a maintenance facility on a coalition base in northeast Syria on Thursday, the Pentagon said in a statement.
U.S. intelligence analysts concluded that the drone was of “Iranian origin,” according to the Pentagon statement, which said the attack took place near Hasaka at 1:38 p.m. local time.
In response, at President Biden’s direction, Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III said he ordered airstrikes against facilities in eastern Syria used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, or I.R.G.C.
It’s a good bet that they’re of the Clintonesque ‘strikes on empty buildings’ variety.
“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,” Mr. Austin said. “No group will strike our troops with impunity.”
A time and place of our choosing is familiar verbiage. It goes back to Shakespeare’s King Lear. “I will do such things,— what they are, yet I know not: but they shall be the terrors of the earth.”
Iran clearly keeps attacking us with impunity.
Attacks by Iranian proxies against bases housing U.S. military personnel in Iraq and Syria are increasing, U.S. officials say, and Washington has not responded with force since 2021.
There were seven attacks in May, as many attacks that month as February, March and April combined, and there have been a total of 29 since October without a kinetic U.S. response.
Impunity. This is what it looks like.
Barbara says
The debacle of pulling out of Afghanistan, Ukraine and Russia war and now the on going attacks on US personal in Iraq and Iran. I was wondering why we have troops in the mid east and yet have not heard anything about US soldiers being attacked.
Biden has his CYA in the media.
Jim says
The government has its own logic of what you need to know or not know.
Walter Sieruk says
That hostile and vicious tyrannical Islamic regime that that the title of “The Islamic Republic of Iran” is ruled by Muslim dictators who hate with a strong Islamic passion the United States. So much so that they has have large painting on many of the large building in Tehran that read “Death to America.” Likewise, those same despots must also hate Americans with a malice-filled deadly hate, Therefore they use their stooges to murder Americans.
Let’s not blame President Trump for their hatred of America because he gave he wise order to eliminate that dangerous warlord general Soleimani . For those tyrants of Iran hated American since that their regime started in 1979 and even back than has the slogan. “Death to America.”
What the elimination of Soleimani did was only an excuse to further engage in the number of more Americans. As was alreadly stated before but well worth ,in in this cause ,reiterating that “Evil is always looking for an excuse.”
Aum says
USA is fighting the wrong battle.
Russia is not the enemy as declared by the Neo-cons.
Milan pustai says
…well….in this situation on SYRIA …hmmm … I am with Syria ….WE , Americans Should be out years ago..like it or not ….WE Americans Should stop playing that WE are the only ones who can police the world … NOBODY IS INTERESTED except the AMERICAN ARM INDUSTRY and politicians who take the $$$ from them ..how hard it is JUST GET OUT
Robert says
I agree
tgusa says
Attempting anything in that region (muslim majority region) is like making a house pet out of a snapping turtle. If we really wanted to roll back the jihad, save lives, money well spent, we would be in Africa where there are peaceful productive Christians being slaughtered by muslims every day.
Robert says
Yes, it’s absolutely horrifying but not a WORD in msm!
Those sick jihadists even eat human corpses! The most disgusting false and demonic religion in the world!
OLD GUY says
DEATH TO AMERICA! from Islamic leaders and states and we want to help these people? Are we NUTS?
Stop aiding the enemy with foreign aid and weapons, close our borders and stop doing business with them and those who support these regimes.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I condemn Iran, but why are there Americans in that region at all? Especially in Syria, of all places?
Walter Sieruk says
Of course ”Iran keeps killing Americans.” For murder is one the evil things that this Islamic monstrous regime is very effective at doing. Those despots in power In Iran don’t even care about or value the lives of the Iranian people. So how much less would they care about or value American lives
Furthermore that fiendish President of Iran ,Raisi in power in that tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran it’s now a rather appropriate time to bring out the fact that if the founder of the current Islamic tyranny ,Ayatollah Khomeini would still be alive today ,he would spit on Joe Biden.
The reason is that Biden had publicly declared and claimed, “Islam is a non-violent religion” In other words he said that “Islam is not a religion of violence.”
Pseudo President Biden is a liar and the Muslim clerics of Iran know that.
For as Ayatollah Khomeini had clearly announced that “Those who know nothing about Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war….There are hundreds psalms and hadiths urging of Muslims to value war and to fight. …I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim.” [1]
There are also many places in the Qu ‘ran that instruct in violence and killing for the cause of Islam.
As found in ,for example Surah 2:191. 4:89.. 5:33. 9:5, 111,112 ,123. 47:4.
[1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM by Ibn Warraq page 339.