President Joe Biden ordered the U.S. military to carry out retaliatory strikes against Iranian-backed militia groups after three U.S. servicemembers were injured in a drone attack in northern Iraq.
National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said one of the U.S. troops suffered critical injuries in the attack that occurred earlier Monday. The Iranian-backed militia Kataib Hezbollah and affiliated groups, under an umbrella of Iranian-backed militants, claimed credit for the attack that utilized a one-way attack drone
Biden, who is spending Christmas at the presidential retreat at Camp David, Maryland, was alerted about the attack by White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan shortly after it occurred on Monday and ordered the Pentagon and his top national security aides to prepare response options.
Iran is either losing control of its proxy groups or making some very bad decisions. What Israel is doing in Gaza is horrendous, but Iran and its proxies provoking the US to war is incredibly stupid.
Please stop poking the bear. That doesn’t end well.
What’s our record for complete annihilation of a country’s military, 2 days?
We can do better.
Winning the war isn’t the biggest problem, not losing the peace is, otherwise you get another ISIS, or worse.
Oh, and civilians die by tens or hundreds of thousands.
Stabilizing a region doesn’t fuel the MIC. Steamrolling militaries does. If something terrible pops up from the power vacuum? Even better for the bottom line.
Long overdue for the Iranian people to cast off their repressive regime
You mean the repressive regime that only exists because it overthrough the last oppressive regime (Shah) that was put in place by…checks notes…a CIA backed coup?
I’m not going to defend theocracy, but these things don’t happen in a vacuum, and outside military intervention is the most surefire way to rally citizens to the flag. It will inspire those who don’t currently support the regime, to rally to the flag and support it.
They’re terrible on their own, independent of Shah or CIA. It’s been too long for that to hold as the only excuse. Theocracy is oppression.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
President Joe Biden ordered the U.S. military to carry out retaliatory strikes against Iranian-backed militia groups after three U.S. servicemembers were injured in a drone attack in northern Iraq.
National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said one of the U.S. troops suffered critical injuries in the attack that occurred earlier Monday.
Biden’s deputy national security adviser, Jon Finer, was with the president at Camp David and convened top aides to review options, according to a U.S. official, who was not authorized to comment publicly and requested anonymity.
The U.S. has blamed Iran, which has funded and trained Hamas, for the rising violence by its network of proxy groups across the region, including attacks by Yemen’s Houthis against commercial and military vessels thorough a critical shipping choke point in the Red Sea.
The Biden administration has sought to prevent the Israel-Hamas war from spiraling into a wider regional conflict that either opens up new fronts of Israeli fighting or that draws the U.S. in directly.
The U.S. has thousands of troops in Iraq training Iraqi forces and combating remnants of the Islamic State group, and hundreds in Syria, mostly on the counter-IS mission.
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Oh boy. All we needed was a reason 🤦♂️
