They attack, we retreat and they attack some more.
Iran’s terror militias launched a wave of rocket attacks against American soldiers in Iraq and Syria under Biden. There were dozens of these attacks last year alone.
In the spring of 2023, Scott Patrick Dubis, a 52-year-old military contractor who had worked on U.S. military bases in Afghanistan, Kuwait and Qatar, was killed by an Iranian backed attack.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin responded by promising that, “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. No group will strike our troops with impunity.”
But Iran and its Jihadi proxy militias could and did go on attacking our troops with impunity.
We launched a few light airstrikes for show and the attacks went on. American personnel kept being wounded in Iranian attacks and sometimes we responded and sometimes we didn’t.
After the latest wave of attacks and responses, the Shiite regime in Baghdad demanded that the United States leave Iraq. And Biden, obediently, began negotiating the withdrawal.
Now, three US Army soldiers were killed and over 30 were wounded in an Iranian-backed drone attack on a position on the Jordanian-Syrian border. This is the worst death toll in some time.
A few months after the Shiite Islamic regime in Tehran commemorated the takeover of the U.S. embassy with chants of “Death to America”, it succeeded in inflicting more death on Americans.
Biden has issued a statement vowing that, once again, “we will hold all those responsible to account at a time and in a manner of our choosing.” Like Austin’s previous statement after the murder of Scott Dubis, that means that no one should expect a quick meaningful response.
The message to Iran and its Islamic terrorists is that they have nothing to worry about. And Iran’s message to us is that we can never pull out far enough until we have surrendered the entire region, the rest of the world and then finally our own country to the enemy.
In the spring of 2020, Army Spc. Juan Miguel Mendez Covarrubias and Air Force Staff Sgt. Marshal D. Roberts, as well as Lance Corporal Brodie Gillon, a British female medic, were killed in an attack by the Shiite Iran-backed militias. Roberts died trying to save a female comrade.
And the attacks just keep right on coming.
When Biden came into office, Iran had a pretty good lock on Iraq, Lebanon and Syria. Then Biden allowed it to seize control over Yemen. During the winter break, it used its Houthi strongholds in Yemen to hijack shipping in the Red Sea. While Biden was out of office and Austin was in the hospital, it seized a channel used by a third of the world’s container ships.
Much as in Iraq and Syria, Biden responded with limited airstrikes that fell far short of ending the threat while conducting a 30 day review before possibly bringing back sanctions on the Houthis. And the Houthis have since managed to hit an oil tanker while global shipping costs have doubled and shipping war risk insurance premiums have skyrocketed many times over.
The same pattern of failure that had played out in Iraq is now playing out in the Red Sea.
After retreating in the Red Sea, Iran has decided to push the frontiers of terror all the way to the Jordanian border. Jordan is a key intersection, a Saudi client state that shares a border with Israel, whose ‘Palestinian’ population would prefer to be ruled by the Muslim Brotherhood. The Brotherhood’s arms include Hamas and its state sponsor, Qatar, is an ally of Iran.
Iran is serious about winning and we are not. It has a plan and we do not. Every tentative response that we make telegraphs the fact that we are afraid to attack it. The Biden administration emphasizes that its strikes are measured, defensive and come with warnings.
Our terrorist enemies however have no such fears or concerns. They hit us where they can.
The Biden administration and the foreign policy apparatus lives in fear of “expanding the war” while Iran seeks to expand the war as far as it can. When one side wants to expand the war while the other fears any escalation, the outcome is a cycle of retreats and defeats.
Every time Iran attacks, we retreat, and every time we retreat, it pushes harder. Negotiations, sanctions relief and diplomacy have failed miserably. The so-called “moderates” have been pushed out in Iran and the new regime burned them along with their American puppets like Biden’s Iran envoy Robert Malley, who was outed by Iran regime outlets, as it prepares for war.
October 7 was only one of the points of Iran’s Jihadist ‘blitzkrieg’ across the region as it prepares to become the dominant power in the Middle East. And while it was devastating to Israelis, it may be less significant than the takeover of the Red Sea or its existing nuclear program, under which it now has enough enriched uranium to build several nuclear warheads, its simultaneous launch of three satellites or its ballistic missile program that can deliver nukes.
All of this foreshadows a struggle on a grand scale that will test America and the world.
Much like WWII, this crisis could have been averted through geopolitical maneuvers, maximum pressure, limited intervention and other tools that were never properly used. Instead Obama attempted to cut a nuclear deal with Iran that he knew was worthless. Biden resumed efforts to restore the deal even though Tehran by then had achieved enough of its goals that it demanded only billions in cash while offering nothing in return but contempt, threats and terror attacks.
The killings of three American soldiers is only the latest consequence of these policies.
Iran got lucky in its Tower 22 attack in Jordan, but the attacks could have also been worse. While American soldiers deployed in Iraq and Syria are used to rocket alerts and quickly run to shelter, those in Tower 22 had not gotten into that same habit. A large stream of rockets or missiles could have inflicted much worse casualties than those 3 dead or 30 wounded.
And that leaves out the possibility that we have yet to consider.
On Oct 7, Israeli soldiers braced for rocket attacks by retreating into shelters only to face a massive assault by thousands of armed Jihadis overrunning their positions under the cover of rockets. Israel wasn’t ready for that kind of attack and the real question is are we ready?
Iran will keep testing and pushing us. And if we fail to take the initiative, the attack will come.
We were not ready for the seizure of our embassy in Tehran. We were not ready for the Marine Barracks bombings in Beirut. We were not ready for 9/11. We were not ready for the fall of Kabul. We were not ready for the takeover of shipping in the Red Sea near Yemen.
What aren’t we ready for next? We only have so much time to wait around and find out.
Wars are fought on by taking the offensive or holding defensive positions. When you are always defending, then you allow the enemy to take the initiative and then you have to find out what comes next.
If we don’t take the offensive, we will have to wait to find out how bad the next attack will be.
Walter Sieruk says
Creepy old Joe Biden doesn’t anything at all about those three Americans who had been killed by rockets supplied to Iran’s proxy jihad terror/murder entities.
Likewise Biden doesn’t care, one little bit , that which it some down to that subject Iran is just a responsible for those dead Americans and those jihad stooge groups of that “mullah regime”
All that despicable traitor Biden cares about is appeasing those Muslim despots of Iran by providing to them everything they demand.
Joe Biden is either an incompetent feeble -minded fool or a traitorous treasonous villain.
Which even the case with him, Biden by giving away everything to those tyrants of that Islamic regime of Iran who such spiteful enemies of the United States that they publicly refer to her as “the Great Satan” and likewise brainwash and then incite the Iranian people to chant, over and over again “Death to America” reveals much about the sinister and insidious character of subversive creepy old Joe.
Therefore Biden by appeasing supporting and further upholding that anti-American vicious and hostile tyrannical Islamic regime. Therefore, he has to be a very evil, un-American very despicable and dangerous man.
Phil Copson says
“Biden has issued a statement vowing that, once again, “We will hold all those responsible to account at a time and in a manner of our choosing.”
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“I will do such things – what they are, yet I know not, but they shall be the terrors of the earth!” to quote King Lear – another silly, powerless old man.
mike says
the three died because Biden funded the means of there death
Hudders. says
Exactly @Mike. Nailed it.
James Lincoln says
And the Democrats wonder why military recruitment is in a downward spiral.
Hudders. says
Once again the latest remarks from the Biden administration contains potential attack sites & other ‘heads up we are going to respond here & where’; in turn thus telegraphing to Iran, the umbrella group ‘Islamic Resistance In Iraq’ & other terrorist proxies all info needed to duck & cover. Why are they obviously aiding the enemy in this way AGAIN?
Courtesy of the excellent Red State.
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/01/29/report-biden-may-take-action-against-iranian-assets-n2169390
I posted comment below after the Tower 22 drone attack a day ago & I wish to repost, as it makes sense of my anger.
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Was there anyone who didn’t see this coming? More weakness. More appeasement. More complicity. Now comes the bloodshed in earnest.
It should be of no surprise, considering that many figures in the US political establisment are known to hold & enjoy documented murky conflicting relationships with the main sponsor of islamic jihadist terror today.
Who can forget the truck loads of cash Hussain Obama sent to Iran; or the enormous piles of money Biden recently released to Iran?
It is a disgrace. On one hand grandiloquently declaring a tough guy stance towards the islamic regine, yet on the other hand, all the while in actuality supporting Iran, as it marches ever closer to having that much desired nuclear weapon; which of course will be unleashed on Israel & the US aswell.
It is a devilish duplicity for which there can be no reasonable justification.
Before the 2020 election result, Trump had the Iranian leaders held firmly by their beards, having wiped ghastly General Solemeni off the face of the planet & restricted their nefarious behaviours. No sooner had Biden come to the Whitehouse, he freed Iran from all those restrictions & the justifiable fear Trump had placed them under! Again devilish duplicity for which there can be no justification.
These are clear acts of treason that continue to resonate horror, harm & danger to the US & the wider world.
Responsibilty for the recent deaths & injuries of the brave soldiers at Tower 22 lies firmly at the feet of Biden & his criminally incompetent administration. For that they can never be forgiven.
One does not need to be a psychic to understand things are going to get an awful lot worse, with traitors, buffoons & criminals at the helm.
terry says
Sadly, billions are about to die because we all failed to stand up against the Globalism of the Elites in the West, the Marxist revival of communism, the ongoing barbarities of Islam, and all the organizations, grants, foundations, and criminals of Cartels, Crime Syndicates, anti-intellectualism, and organized criminal bosses in the world wide web of corporate psychopaths! The rulers today are all mad sociopaths hell bent on being masters, lords, and gods!
James Lincoln says
Pres. Trump had Iran contained.
Fraudulent elections have devastating consequences…