A drone has struck a tent of sleeping troops in Jordan, killing US troops in the Middle East for the first time since the war in Gaza began. The US has blamed Iran-backed militant groups, but is yet to identify who specifically they believe is responsible.
Three American troops have been killed and 34 injured in a drone attack in Jordan.
Those killed in the attack were sleeping in a tent at a place called Tower 22 in northeast Jordan, near the Syria border.
US President Joe Biden said the attack was carried out by “radical Iran-backed militant groups” in Syria and Iraq.
While we are still gathering the facts of this attack, we know it was carried out by radical Iran-backed militant groups operating in Syria and Iraq.
That seems like a reasonable guess, but they shouldn’t be presenting it as knowledge if they haven’t yet identified the attackers.
good vs bad narrative works exceedingly well. they ain’t saying they know it’s Iran. They saying Iran it’s the bad guy. and in USA this is much more than sufficient.
Does anyone else want to get all the American troops out of the Middle East?
The host nations for these military installations sure as hell don’t.
Their people do. Their governments are receiving billions from the US so they don’t.
Poking the bear won’t turn out well for Iran.
Ask Saddam Hussein.
Ask Muammar Gaddafi.
Because those wars went so well. Iran has a population of almost 90 million compared to Iraq’s 2003 population of 27 million or so and Libya’s was like 6 million before that war. And those only created more instability. There’s not usually a winner in a war in the modern era.
I’m an American and, emotionally, I obviously get the desire to retaliate for the attacks but a real war with Iran would be catastrophic. It would probably weaken America in the long run. As bad as these tit-for-tat strikes are, we’re better off supporting Iranian protesters than taking aggressive military action.
Yep between the mountainous terrain and Iran’s advanced missile program it’d be a disaster. If a president got involved in a war like that, the opposition party might end up with 70 senate seats instead of the 60 the dems got after the Iraq war fell apart.
ETA: the other problem is that Iran has a much, much stronger central government than Iraq or Libya did in terms of control over the population.
It was only a few months ago that that population was risking their lives in the streets to protest the ruling regime.
Could do a few strikes on the leadership and leave the rest in the hands of the people.
Problem with this is external threats can solidify the regime’s hold.
The Saudi and UAE oil fields would be set alight overnight.
People don’t seem to realise that the various Iran supported militias throughout the Middle East have been holding back.
It has been low level skirmishes on the Lebanon border with Israel, the Houthi blockade of Israeli shipping and drone attacks throughout the middle east with US retaliation strikes.
This would escalate very quickly and the damage to the world economy, America and its allies would be immense.
Not saying Iran and their allies wouldn’t feel any pain but it’s a lose / lose for everyone.
