Posted on 01/28/2024 8:23:29 AM PST by janetjanet998
Three U.S. soldiers were killed and at least two dozen were injured in a drone attack overnight on a U.S. outpost in Jordan, officials tell CNN. This is the first time U.S. forces have been killed by enemy fire in the Middle East since the beginning of the Gaza war
I thought nobody ‘’f’ed’’ with a Biden?
On the southern border?
At least go all “Arc Light” on the Houthi strongholds and send a strong message. If we don’t know where they are by now we should pull out and come home.
And what is point?
The base is inside Syria, hotly contested war zone for years. I had to look it up. Not inside Jordan proper from the map of al Tanf.
500 bases world wide.
They’re generally poor and poorly educated, with few options, so they gamble with their lives. Neocons exploit their neediness to pursue lucrative adventures in global politics. It’s deeply unjust and disgraceful.
Iran will have to be dealt with. What do you propose?
“Where don’t we have troops?”
And that’s the big misinformation. We have troops in most countries and they are strategically located to reponse to other countries with rapid deployment capacity.
An example is the labs we’ve been operating in the Ukraine for many years along with CIA prisoner holding tanks nobody will mention.
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/after-months-of-denial-u-s-admits-to-running-ukraine-biolabs/
Another example are CIA black sites. (Prisoner holding locations) These sites have been around for a long time but Black sites operated by the US government and its surrogates were first officially acknowledged by President George W. Bush in the fall of 2006. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) reported details of black site practices to the US government in early 2007, and the contents of that report became public in March 2009. Two countries admitting publically to housing our sites are Poland and Romania. But there’s more. The most famous was Guantanamo Bay.
The American public doesn’t know a quarter of what’s going on. They remain fat and sassy (secure in their minds) so they can vote in the people that have been hand feeding them not food but manure. And the sheep in the corral prosper...or so are told.
wy69
How can that be. I thought he was a SEAL who died boarding a dhow in the Red Sea.
Other sources suggest circa 750. The question is "how big" and "what involvement" defines the whole issue.
One thing is without question: this costs a bundle.
Remember when Trump wanted to pull these soldiers out of Syria and Northern Iraq, and Graham and Pence “talked him out of it” and the DC deep-state controlled press told Americans it was a bad idea?
This was not the first attack on these isolated, indefensible bases located in hostile territories. They do not have adequate forces to protect and pursue. It was almost inevitable that Americans would be killed. What military genius thought up this policy?
WHY is the US in the middle-east at all?
In the 1970s, we needed Saudi oil, so had motivation to ally with and protect them.
The USA is now an oil and gas exporter - an energy powerhouse.
Yet we engage with the mideast and the Muslim world like they are absolutely critical to US economy and security. WHY?
Is it only because of Israel?
We have troops in Jordan too? Where don’t we have troops?
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I was thinking that exact thing. Every few months I wake up, read the news, and find out we have boots on the ground in territories I never new we had them...ridiculous.
In Jordan?
That’s unusual. They (Iranians and Houthis) usually leave Jordan alone. When my son in law was in that area a couple years ago, Jordan wasn’t considered especially dangerous.
Times have changed.
I remember the Cuban Missile Crisis; we believed we were on the brink of nuclear war. We believed and were terrified. These days people either think it can’t happen or will just be a bump in the road, like a power outage. We are now immersed in a mentality that practically guarantees a nuclear exchange, because technology and propaganda now negates reality to advance governmental and corporate objectives. We take our security and prosperity as a given. If and when we’re ever jolted back to reality, there probably won’t be enough of us around to notice.
I remember the Cuban Missile Crisis; we believed we were on the brink of nuclear war. We believed and were terrified. These days people either think it can’t happen or will just be a bump in the road, like a power outage. We are now immersed in a mentality that practically guarantees a nuclear exchange, because technology and propaganda now negates reality to advance governmental and corporate objectives. We take our security and prosperity as a given. If and when we’re ever jolted back to reality, there probably won’t be enough of us around to notice.
Especially since U.S. operations are being managed by DEI appointed people instead of those most qualified.
Injured is now up to 34
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