The US deployed B-52 long-range bombers to the Middle East on Saturday in what is seen as a message to Iran and a show of force in the region after the announcement of partial troop withdrawals from Iraq and Afghanistan.
“US Air Force B-52H ‘Stratofortress’ aircrews assigned to the 5th Bomb Wing, Minot Air Force Base, ND, conducted a short-notice, long-range mission into the Middle East on Nov. 21 to deter aggression and reassure US partners and allies,” US Central Command said in a statement.
The deployment of the bombers came after a report from The New York Times said President Trump reviewed options to strike an Iranian nuclear site but was talked out of pulling the trigger by his top advisors. One of those advisors was Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who was asked about a potential attack on Iran in an interview in Abu Dhabi on Sunday.
When asked by The National if a military strike on Iran was being considered, Pompeo said: “The President of the United States always retains the right to do what’s needed to ensure that Americans are safe. It’s been our policy for four years. It’ll be our policy, so long as we have the responsibility to keep America protected.”
According to The Associated Press, a State Department official who was traveling with Pompeo was asked about the Times report that said Trump mulled a strike on Iran. The official said, “all options are on the table” and that the Trump administration “will continue to pursue its policies until it’s not in office anymore.”
The Trump administration is ramping up its “maximum pressure” campaign on Iran to make it difficult for a Biden administration to return to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. Last week, the US slapped new sanctions on Iran, and more are expected in the coming weeks.
I wonder if Trump realizes that if he attacks Iran, it is his family that will be the targets of Iran. Might be immediately, might be five years, Iran plays the long game! Just remember Trump started the assassination game!
D.H. Lawrence:
“Democracy in America was never the same as Liberty in Europe. In Europe Liberty was a great life-throb. But in America Democracy was always something anti-life. The greatest democrats, like Abraham Lincoln, had always a sacrificial, self-murdering note in their voices. American Democracy was a form of self-murder, always. Or of murdering somebody else… The love, the democracy, the floundering into lust, is a sort of by-play. The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.”
D. H. died in 1930,
well before this idiotic assessment was completely routed
by the rise of Euro Nazi/Fascism.
Catch up on some real history of Nazi Germany and the Nuremburg kangaroo court. BYE!
Does this mean Cardinal José María Caro Rodríguez had the real Pike to Mazzini letter ? Time will tell…
Aggressively deterring aggression on the other side of the globe.
Iran’s underground nuclear facilities cannot be destroyed…! damaged maybe, but the consequence on counter attacks on US bases, Israel and SA are huge…!