The Biden White House is making a big mistake saying Friday's February 2nd attacks against eighty-four sites in Iraq and Syria is only part of America's response to the drone attack against the Tower 22 base in Jordan that killed three U.S. soldiers and wounded dozens. Let this February 2nd attack be America's complete response to this Tower 22 incident, America used one-hundred and twenty five missiles and killed around forty people in these attacks that is a heavy response. The White House is making a miscalculation that people in these countries and these groups behind the Tower 22 attack will see future attacks against them as a just response to the Jordan matter, no they will perceive it as America is doing Israel's bidding America is culpable in the Israeli Defense Forces killing and persecution of Palestinian civilians in Gaza and this will cause future attacks against American government targets in the Middle East and depending on how long and the nature of America's ongoing response to the Tower 22 attacks America could see terrorist attacks in America. America does not need radical Islamic terrorist attacks in the continental United State right now it will further demoralize and divide our nation; if the Biden White House continues this heavy response it will see an escalation and this is foolish and unwise. In all probability there will soon be a six or so week cease fire in the Gaza War and all the hostages released and wisdom will prevail in the Israeli people's leadership where they will recognize they cannot wipe out Hamas and agree to a permanent cease fire that will allow the Israeli Defense Forces to destroy the entirety of the 300 mile Hamas tunnel system under Gaza and that will create the trajectory for the permanent elimination of Hamas which offers the Palestinian people no good future. This whole recent flame up of conflict around Iraq, Syria and Jordan is all because of the Gaza War, the American government gets the Gaza War to go away and this problem at a serious level goes away it is that simple, Biden White House don't make matters worse than they have to be! America's abundance of ex military leaders have in high numbers come out publicly and said there will be lessons learned for the U.S. military in regards to the drone attack on the Tower 22 base. I am not a military guy but it seems to me that common sense screams out that in these small American bases scattered throughout the Middle East you shouldn't be using what are essentially shipping containers for sleeping quarters and work locations for the soldiers stationed at these bases. Wisdom calls for assuming a missile, drone or artillery shell will get through America's defenses for these bases and hit these containers which offer very little protection for the soldiers working and living in these containers. It would not be that expensive to make underground masonry bunkers for the soldiers stationed at these bases. Use bulldozers to dig the hole bring in pallets of bags of concrete and use five inch steel pole columns with a concrete base and steel I beams resting on the poles to support the ceiling make a steel bar concrete ceiling just like they make a concrete roadway on a bridge have thin steel pans to hold the concrete as it cures and make walls in the bunker out of cinder blocks. Have the restrooms and showers outside the bunker so you don't have to deal with plumbing and sewer challenges. This isn't a high tech lessoned learned but it is one that will save American soldiers lives in the future!
The United States said the attack lasted 30 minutes, hitting 85 targets across seven locations in Iraq and Syria. The White House said aircraft including B-1 bombers were used in the operation. More than 125 precision-guided munitions were fired, the White House said. The United States strikes killed at least 16 people in Iraq, including civilians, and injured 25 others, the Iraqi government said Friday. The attacks hit areas close to the border with Syria, and targeted facilities used by Iranian-linked al Hashd al Shabi (or Popular Mobilization Units, PMU) in the Iraqi city of Al-Qaim. The PMU is a predominantly Shiite Iran-backed paramilitary force based in Iraq. Unlike other Iran-backed groups around the region, the PMU is tied to the Iraqi government and is closely linked to Iran-aligned Shiite blocs that for years dominated politics in Iraq. In 2016, the Iraqi parliament passed a bill recognizing the PMU as a government entity operating alongside the Iraqi military. The organization is an umbrella group, with several forces operating underneath its wing, including Iraq's powerful Kataib Hezbollah. Iraq and Syria condemned the United States attack as infringements on their sovereignty. What we know about the US strikes in Iraq and Syria, CNN, by Natasha Bertrand, Haley Britzky, Kevin Liptak, Oren Liebermann, and Nadeen Ebrahim, February 3, 2024
Weak response to a series of attacks. This will only lead to more; such weakness emboldens these feral savages.
But randomly bombing different targets, including groups that were not directly responsible for that specific attack, does not really seem like the best strategy for a reprisal, and has the risk of creating additional bitterness and escalating things. In fact one of the militant groups they attacked had a week earlier made an official statement that they would stop targeting American forces. Another militant group they attacked is officially recognized by the new Iraqi government.
