Having bombed in a congressional hearing last week, General Milley (pronounced Miley Cyrus) decided to throw some bombs in the Syrian desert to get everyone off his case. The general's little Social Justice Warrior speech turned off many a veteran and many a Trump supporter.
Milley is supposed to defend the American flag first, last, and always. Let others protect the Rainbow flag and the BLM banner.
The Pentagon announced, "At President Biden's direction, U.S. military forces earlier this evening conducted defensive precision airstrikes against facilities used by Iran-backed militia groups in the Iraq-Syria border region. The targets were selected because these facilities are utilized by Iran-backed militias that are engaged in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) attacks against U.S. personnel and facilities in Iraq. Specifically, the U.S. strikes targeted operational and weapons storage facilities at two locations in Syria and one location in Iraq, both of which lie close to the border between those countries. Several Iran-backed militia groups, including Kata'ib Hezbollah (KH) and Kata'ib Sayyid al-Shuhada (KSS), used these facilities."
Biden acted on Milley's advice.
The bombing of a warehouse in the boonies makes little sense. The bombs cost more than the warehouse and its contents. Under President Trump, the military took out terrorist leaders such as General Soleimani of Iran and Al-Bagdadi.
The bombing also runs counter to Biden's appeasement of Iran, which includes buying Iranian oil with money that will buy more bombs, UAVs, and warehouses to store them in.
No, this mission was an attempt to restore veteran confidence in the military. Milley flexed his muscles. His message is the military can kowtow to the latest whim of the left and still fight and defeat (checks notes) warehouses (checks again) in the desert.
Milley's press release said, "As a matter of international law, the United States acted pursuant to its right of self-defense."
Either Iran has drones that can strike 6,000 miles away or Milley is lying through his teeth.
Maybe it does.
Michael Knights of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy told the Wall Street Journal, "There is a strong consensus in the U.S. and Iraqi intelligence communities that Kata’ib Hezbollah is the primary operator of sophisticated drones."
When it comes to U.S. intelligence, trust but verify.
This does raise the question of why the United States is allowed to bomb warehouses 6,000 miles from its shores while Israel is not allowed to bomb the people in Gaza who are bombing them?
But the Pentagon said it was protecting soldiers in Iraq.
Al Jazeera said, "The United States carried out another round of air raids against Iran-backed armed groups in Iraq and Syria, in response to drone attacks against US personnel and facilities in Iraq, with the militias threatening to retaliate.
"In a statement on Sunday, the US military said it targeted operational and weapons storage facilities at two locations in Syria and one location in Iraq."
So we bombed Syria to get Iran, and wound up ticking off Iraq.
Hot Air's take was defensive. Its headline said, "Warmongering president launches strike on Syria."
Its story began, "Let’s be honest here. That would have been the headline if this had happened prior to January 20 of this year, right?"
Wrong.
When President Donald Trump bombed Syria, the Guardian ran a story, "Why are liberals now cheerleading a warmongering Trump?"
The story pointed out that CNN commentator Fareed Zakaria said, "I think Donald Trump just became president of the United States."
Libs like airstrikes in sparsely populated areas because they would love to be able to do that to Flyover Country. Biden warned us that we had better have F-15s and nukes if we won't give up our guns.
But President Trump had fallen into a trap. Intelligence officials insisted that Syria used chemical weapons against its own people.
That was a lie.
Reason panned today's bombing. It said, "Analysts agree another round of bombings won't accomplish anything in Syria. One child was reportedly killed and three civilians wounded in U.S. airstrikes near the Iraq-Syria border on Sunday, according to Syrian state news agency SANA. This news has been absent from most U.S. coverage of the bombings, which has emphasized that several alleged members of Iraqi militias backed by Iran were also killed or wounded."
Last week, Milley burned a few bridges at a congressional hearing.
In response to a question from Matt Gaetz, Milley said, "I do think it’s important for those of us in uniform to be open-minded and be widely read. The United States Military Academy is a university. It is important that we train and we understand. I want to understand white rage — and I’m white. What is it that caused thousands of people to assault this building and try to overturn the Constitution of the United States of America? What caused that? I want to find that out. I want to maintain an open mind. I do want to analyze it. It’s important that we understand it. Our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, and guardians — they come from the American people. It’s important that the leaders, now and in the future, understand it. I’ve read Mao Zedong. I’ve read Karl Marx. I’ve read Lenin. That doesn’t make me a communist. So what is wrong with having some situational understanding about the country we are here to defend? I personally find it offensive that we are accusing the United States military — our general officers, our commissioned and non-commissioned — of being ‘woke’ or something else because we’re studying some theories that are out there while calling out those who have criticized military officials as woke for entertaining the theory based on the idea that systemic racism exists in America. [Critical race theory] was started at Harvard Law School years ago and proposed that there were laws in the United States prior to the Civil War that led to a power differential with African Americans that were three-quarters of a human being when this country was formed. We had a Civil War and an Emancipation Proclamation to change it. We brought it up in the Civil Rights Act. It took another 100 years to change that. I do want to know. I respect your service and we’re both Green Berets, but I want to know. It matters to the discipline and cohesion of this military."
Milley showed an inch-deep depth of knowledge.
He lied twice.
The people who stormed the Capitol were not trying to overturn the Constitution. They protested the steal of a presidential election.
And CRT was invented at Harvard to invalidate the Constitution because it was written by slave-owners.
Veterans are bailing on the military. They served the country. They are not sure that Milley does.
Today's show of force in the desert was just that.
A show.
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