Anyone surprised by this? We basically have The kenyan back in office with a lot of his admin/hoodlums! Originally Posted by winn dixie
Actually, some of the experts tonight are giving Biden credit for doing what Obama wouldn't do, take on Iran.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel...-is-not-obama/
Israel said very pleased with US strikes in Syria: ‘Biden is not Obama’
Officials tell Walla News they see attacks on Iran-backed militia base as a positive signal about new administration’s posture toward Tehran, say US gave Israel advance notice
Israel is highly pleased with Thursday night’s US airstrikes against an Iranian-backed militia base on the Syrian-Iraqi border, Israeli officials told Walla News Friday.
Officials told Walla they see the strikes as a positive signal about the new administration’s posture toward Iran, and believe it will send a message to Tehran that it must restrain itself and its proxies in the region.
They said they had been concerned by growing Iranian provocations in the region, often through its proxies, and had shared this concern with the Americans.
“The Iranians didn’t realize that [US President Joe] Biden is not [Barack] Obama, and that if they will continue down this road of miscalculation they will eventually get hit,” an Israeli official told Walla.
The report added that Washington had notified Israel in advance of the airstrikes. The notice was a routine update that occurs whenever US operations may affect Israel and vice versa.
In the first military action undertaken by the Biden administration, the US launched airstrikes in Syria targeting facilities near the Iraqi border used by Iranian-backed militia groups. The Pentagon said the strikes were retaliation for a rocket attack in Iraq earlier this month that killed one civilian contractor and wounded a US service member and other coalition troops.
While pointing out that Biden has been wrong on literally everything that came before, I'm giving him credit on this one. It took 3 attacks by Shia militia supported by Iran though they deny any linkage to this group, before they decided they knew exactly who to hit.
What I disagree with is this "proportional response" bullshit. Our policy should be, "we will hit you twice as hard on the first offense and if you do it again, we will hit you till there is no one left to hit, without hitting Iran directly. These are militias I'm talking about.
I'm pretty sure that right now, plans are on the table for an all out massive attack on Iran nuclear facilities if Israel pushes the matter that far. To avoid as much damage to our positions in that part of the world, we would need to target every single missile launcher we could find, every airfield and destroy every single port capable of launching warships and fast boats and co-ordinate all this with Israel.
If we are going to take out their nuclear capability it will have to be a destroy everything less they hit our bases and troops.
I hope it never comes to all out war but I hope we have the nerve to do so if needed. This crap about letting Iran arm proxies all over the Middle East is bullshit.
