US Commanders want to take direct action against Iran
According to Fox News and the Wall Street Journal, US commanders are concerned about Iran’s expansion of operations in Iraq and throughout the region and they’re urging the administration to allow them to take direct action against iran’s forces;
The move comes amid growing concern in the Obama administration about Iran’s attempts in recent months to expand its influence in Iraq and the broader Middle East and what it says is Tehran’s increased arms smuggling to its allies, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Compounding the urgency is the planned reduction in the US military presence in Iraq by the end of the year, a development that many fear will open up the country to more influence from Iran, which also has a majority Shiite population.
For the Obama Administration to refuse this request is to revisit the failures of the Vietnam War when the Nixon and Johnson Administrations failed to cross the borders of Cambodia and Laos effectively and cut off the supply routes into South Vietnam that maintained the Viet Cong and NVA regulars.
The Iranians have been fueling the war in Iraq for years and it was a great failure of the Bush Administration to address the incursions effectively. If Obama is married to his timetable withdrawal from Iraq, he has to accept that it will take military action against Iran’s cross-border incursions to leave Iraq safely.
Category: Terror War
A lot of the Navy guys I knew who were over there in 1990-91 were sure they were going back. A lot of the guys I talk to now feel like we’re going to have to go back in 10-20 years after the place goes to shit (again.)
You’d think the Democrats would have learned or even cared about what happens to a nation when they pull the rug out from under it. 1975 seems to ring a bell in my head for some reason.
The more things change….
DC has been half steppin’ wrt Iran for the last three decades. Sooner or later, those chickens are coming home to roost.
Iran has American hostages.
Iran has lost firefights to Americans.
Obama permitted to 2 separate revolutions in Iran, both aimed at overthrowing the current theocratic/bureaucratic regimes, to fail spectacularly.
BLUF: we can destroy Iran militarily, but our allies among the Iranian people are very dead thanks to Obama. We have already lost the long battle. Such is the courage of America.
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
It is our very great misfortune that we have the heart and the will to do what needs to be done as a nation to fight this war, but our leadership is brainless and spineless, and worse, they have no understanding of, or trust in, the military leaders who DO know what needs to be done.