One USMC rifle squad was probably more than enough to defend the embassy against these slimeball cowards, but 100 of em, armed to the teeth and on full alert pretty much guarantees there’ll be no Odongo/PIAPS-type “Benghazi event” taking place there. Instead of threatening Iran, just do it. “When you gotta shoot, shoot”. Don’t talk.
One USMC rifle squad was probably more than enough to defend the embassy against these slimeball cowards, but 100 of em, armed to the teeth and on full alert pretty much guarantees there’ll be no Odongo/PIAPS-type “Benghazi event” taking place there.
No offense to the Marines, but the two Apache helicopters hovering over the embassy are quite threatening as well.
I don’t think Iran (or Iraq) got the result they were hoping for with this.... we are sending additional troops to the region so Trump will clearly not back down. He put the Iraqi government on notice and will continue the strangling sanctions on Iran and potentially worse.
There are no good answers to the quagmire or the Iran problem, but all in all they seemed to play this about as well as they could.