Finian Cunningham – Strategic Review Jan 30, 2024
Predictably, Joe Biden is being flayed by the Republicans over the killing of three U.S. troops in Jordan by Iraqi militants.
The Democrat president is slammed for being weak and a coward by his political opponents.
Donald Trump, his main Republican rival, mocked Biden as a “loser” and said the attacks on U.S. troops were because of the president’s “weakness and surrender”.
Nikki Haley, the other Republican vying for the presidential election this year, also taunted Biden for showing spinelessness toward Iran. She called for direct retaliation on the Islamic Republic “with the full force of American strength”. Logically, that could imply the use of nuclear weapons.
Unanimously across the mainstream U.S. political spectrum, it was assumed that Iran was ultimately responsible for the deadly attack on the U.S. military base on Sunday in Jordan where three military servicemen were killed and 34 were reportedly wounded, according to early reports.
The attack was claimed by Iraqi militants, the Kata’ib Hezbollah, as part of an umbrella group known as the Islamic Resistance. The militants are believed to be an alliance of militias based in Iraq, Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, and Yemen. The latter two include Hezbollah and the Ansar Allah movement also known as the Houthis. All are allied with Iran. But each is understood to have its own agency in directing and executing operations.
These groups have carried out hundreds of attacks on U.S. and Israeli bases since October 7 when Israel launched its offensive on Gaza following the deadly raid on Israel by Hamas. The Yemenis bring a maritime dimension to the region-wide resistance with the ongoing targeting of U.S. and other ships in the Red Sea area.
Iran has denied that it was involved in the latest attack on the U.S. base in Jordan. Tehran also denies it is behind the Yemeni operations in the Red Sea.
Iran and the resistance groups say they are an anti-imperialist alliance that is united by opposition to the U.S.-backed Zionist genocide in Gaza. These groups are not “Islamist” in the mold of Islamic State and its hardline Sunni (Wahhabi or Takfiri) offshoots. Far from it. The resistance groups were galvanized to defeat the Islamists which have been fomented and supported covertly by the United States for its regime change war in Syria. That proxy war was defeated after Russia intervened in 2015 in support of Syria.
The Americans are locked into a downward spiral created by their own flawed logic and cumulative imperialist occupation in the region.
Even President Biden has accused Iran of being responsible for the killing of the three U.S. military personnel. Biden vowed to respond at a time of “our choosing”.
So, Washington unquestioningly determines that Iran is the master culprit. That means the U.S. has committed itself to going after Tehran without any evidence or realistic understanding of where such a direction is leading. That is, how bad it could get for the Americans.
In a U.S. election year shaping up to be more fraught than ever, and with Biden facing dwindling poll numbers, the White House incumbent is highly susceptible to being goaded by Republican adversaries.
Trump has already been hammering Biden for being weak and frail. With the Middle East turning into a cauldron over the Israeli slaughter in Gaza, the Commander-in-Chief is cornered to show mettle. Biden is a hostage of stupid macho politics and bankrupt American imperialism. Diplomacy is simply not an option for the empire, according to its own logic and delusions.
After the deadly drone strike on the U.S. base in Jordan, Republican Senator Tom Cotton dialed up the revenge with the usual warmongering ranting and raving: “The only answer to these attacks must be devastating retaliation against Iran’s terrorist force… Anything less will confirm Joe Biden as a coward.”
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said Biden’s inaction was the problem because it was emboldening enemies in the Middle East, saying: “The time to start taking this aggression seriously was long before more brave Americans lost their lives.”
How hilarious that Biden is scoffed at for being dovish. During his long career, he has been one of the most warmongering politicians in Washington. He backed the U.S.-led NATO wars in former Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, and presently in Ukraine. The only thing cowardly about Biden is that he is a craven tool of the military-industrial complex and a pathetic psychopath.
Biden is also known for his bad temper and macho knee-jerk character. We can be quite certain that the Republican taunts about his supposed pusillanimous policy in the Middle East will get his hackles up. Biden has already taken a reckless militarist position over supporting Israeli aggression. The shocking mass killing of over 26,000 Palestinian civilians under a brutal blockade of starvation has shocked the world and in particular Arab and Muslim people. And yet Biden has not paused in his “unwavering support” for Israel.
Biden has led U.S. imperialism out of the quagmire of Afghanistan into an even bigger quagmire in the Middle East. With the goading by his equally brainless political rivals, the Americans are plowing further into disaster.
With over 50 military bases strung across the Middle East in 10 countries and with over 50,000 U.S. troops stationed in the region, the Americans are sitting ducks for the resistance. The advent of drones and newer missile technology is a new realm of warfare the Americans have not adapted to with their land garrisons in remote deserts and gaudy warships.
The death of three U.S. troops has long been on the cards. The stupid American politicians think they are going to get revenge. They have no idea what is coming to them given the long history of U.S. aggression, provocation, and illegal occupation in the region. The support of Israel’s genocide, the heartrending scenes of children being torn apart by American bombs, the bombing of Yemen – the poorest Arab country – the crazed threats to Iran, the insufferable American arrogance, and decades of impunity are all now welling up in the Middle East.
The stupid American politicians are digging a hole for themselves and have no awareness of how to reverse it. Democrats, Republicans, Biden, Trump, and so on, they are all a ship of fools.
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JAMES EARL RAY
Cointelpro was claimed by FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover to have been set up him
for USA security, and was an abbreviation of “Counter Intelligence Operations”
The CIA could not be seen to get its hands dirty with murders so merged with the mafia
to kill anyone deemed subversive to internal stability beginning in 1952 but mainly from 1956 to around 1972
The system targetted a variety of organizations, 39 in all that were part of the broader Socialist and black supremacist groups
whistleblowers such as those UFO buffs who tried to speak out were ridiculed if that did not work, worse was to come,
Conjuror and pedophile James Randi was employed to make fun of psychics, while the same US senate was spending milions training psychics for
the military.
J. Edgar Hoover along with several Russians in the KGB such as Konstantin Volkov secretly fed info to US senator Joseph Mc carthy.
The mafia consisting mainly of Mossad operatives killed 28 Black Panthers including Malcolm X Jimmy Hendrix Bob Marley and Martin Luther King Jnr
the Kennedy family John Lennon John Denver and David Carradine, in fact anyone who was against the vietnam war was a potential target
The killing would be dismissed as ” a lone gunman nutjob”
and a patsy would be found like Mark Chapman Sirhan Sirhan Lee Harvey-Oswald or James Earl Ray
The system was also used in the UK under USA direction
Here in the UK after W W 2 over 100 ex soldiers marched on parliament to hand back their medals in disgust police blocked their way so the men
threw the medals in the River Thames
Churchill had promised the men if they fought his war they would come home to a land of milk and hone with jobs and homes for all
but the government betrayed the men by telling them there were not any jobs but they could go to Australia on ” assisted passage ” for £10 where there was work
next thing the government was importing in men from the west indies for ” jobs englishmen were too lazy to do ” hence the ex service mens march
In places like Notting Hill London the ex servicemen made several demonstrations and were very vocal
in punishment the government made Notting Hill an annual carnival just for black people
This march and medals being thrown was covered by just one newspaper The Daily Sketch
Jill Dando was compiling info on the BBC pedo ring, she was shot and killed and a patsy was found and jailed, Barry George an unstable down and our was perfect
the killings of Rik Mayall and Simon Dee, for rocking the BBC boat, and it is suspected that Screaming Lord Sutch was also murdered
speaking out against the system is dangerous as MP Robin Cook found out as did Dr Savid kelly and Princess Diana, no one is too big to go.
JAMES EARL RAY
this is a very old article
but i found it shocking and had to share it
i wonder how much is true ?
Bush Senior was hesitant about Iraq in 1991 until he got chided in a similar way, but it is probably scripted that way
Idiot author doesn’t comprehend this is all staged & prearranged by the Israel Overlords, who control all the ‘nations’, intelligence agencies & muslim ‘terror groups’ of the world. 3 fictitious negroes ‘died’. Its all made up. Phony crisis actor parents interviewed on TV, given millions like the family of Gorilla Floyd to ‘validate’ the illusion.
The world has forgotten about the incident in the Mediterranean sea When Israel deliberately attacked an American navy ship killing twenty two sailor’s and wounding many others . Where was the massive act of retaliation then or didn’t the lives of those sailor’s mean anything , and now the world is witnessing a greater expansion of wars in the ME in the defence of those same satanic reptiles who deliberately murdered American Sailor’s . Their repulsive levels of hypocrisy once more exposed to the world.
ivor
Cointelpro pretended to be anti-black but their main target was Rockwell. That was just their cover to make the white dum dums think they were ‘impartial’. Interesting how you left out how Cointelpro targeted/killed white fascist type individuals/groups like Rockwell & the American Nazi Party, the KKK etc.
james earl ray
I remember reading this many yeas ago
it was on the old TruthNews website
its old news now
Cointelpro was targetting KKK and the nationalists
several of who were murdered although very dated now the system tan in the OK
fafor several years
after being scaled down in the US
James Earl Ray
This piece is almost 20 years old
there nothing new to said here?
recently it was admitted the FBI set up James Earl Ray a petty criminal
and a damn nuisance to the law authorities
please keep the news and comments up to date
The service men were very vocal in punishment, what does that mean?