The Pentagon has issued a statement Sunday reporting that they have carried out a round of airstrikes against the border area between Iraq and Syria. The attacks targeted the Iraqi Shi’ite militia Ketaib Hezbollah.
This is not the first time the US has attacked this militia. Indeed, the US regularly hits them, and provokes retaliation from the militia. The statement said this attack was meant to retaliate for recent militia drone strikes against US targets.
The Ketaib Hezbollah militia has established itself around this border area to resist ISIS and to support the Syrian government in its own fights against ISIS on the other side of the border. In both cases, the US is hostile, and in both cases, the US has tried to brand the group as “pro-Iran.”
The US statement reported two sites were targeted inside Syria, and one site inside Iraq. It is not clear what damage was done in these attacks, and similarly did not address the possibility of casualties in the attacks.
Instead, the statement simply insisted that the US attack was a legitimate attack of self-defense and sends an “unambiguous deterrent message.” Historically, this has not been successful, and has just been part of years of tit-for-tat escalations with the militias.
When in the flying f*ck are we going to get out of there???? Notice this action was on the Iraq/SYRIAN border. So who knows who or what we really hit.
Almost everyone in the US and the world agrees that the “Iraq war” was and is one of the biggest ongoing mistakes the US has ever made and is a true crime against humanity and yet we keep it up, the killing, the trespassing, the robbery, and some how our brand new President has signed off on these murderous actions. Why? Surely not to make Israel happy, so why Joe why.
Sorry, it was no mistake. The US and the zionist puppets acheived their objective of destroying the country, the society and it’s administration. What it did fail to achieve were the separate provinces named after the US leadership for eternal predation.
I agree. Like with Yugoslavia, the aim envisioned by “A Clean Break”, was the balkanization of the mid-east. Biden is only following IDF orders.
The wars since 1990 have been a “mistake” only if you think the point of the US govt is to care for the life and wellbeing of typical American citizens. But the fact is that the point of these wars, as indeed the main concern of our govt ever, is the care and feeding of favored corporations and the 0.1%.
These wars have transferred hundreds of billions and eventually trillions from taxpayer $ to the favored few. Believe me, if these wars were not beneficial to the people that matter, they simply would not happen … “mistakes” would stop being made.
I don’t see a need to specifically exclude the wars prior to 1990 from that statement. The math still works out.
What a load of nonsense!
I am sure somebody is amusing themselves at inventing names for villains.
We ALWAYS hit border between Syria and Iraq.
It is so obvious why a— yet, let us pretend we do not see.
US has a base Al-Tanf, straddling Iraqi -Syrian border. From there, whatever illicit transport in people or materials requires that the border remains unguarded.
Iraq should get some spine — and get some REGULAR ARMY to guard border. Why are those Shia militia being sacrificed every time?
Somebody must control the border. Syria cannot, as this corridor US controls. But Iraq has no excuse for not securing its border. And stop the nonsense.
The US holds the Iraqi money from oil proceeds as hostage. The Iraqi politicians understand the costs in terms of money and possibly their own lives since they could be targeted for assassination. Al Qaeda and ISIS would be happy to arrange for it. The Iraqis have a tough hand to play by US design.
Khataib Hezb. IS officially part of the Iraqi army. Their leader al.Mohandis was killed by Trump together with General Soleimani as you know.
Something which they still is committed to get revenge for at a time of their choosing but the people firing old katuysha rockets are much less sophisticated. Khataib.Hezb. has in their inventory the latest and best missiles, drones and suicide drones Iran can offer and they use them wisely.
By still occupying this hornets nest, US can be assured that the killings of over 300 US marines in Lebanon -86 will look like a walk in the park when the right moment turns up.
The US has no right to self defence in a country a section of which it occupies illegally, except in their fanciful “rules-based world”