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The true cause for this attack success was US failure to mitigate security risk from Iran already 20 years ago when there was a good change for it. Current US a
by genman 3y ago
The true cause for this attack success was US failure to mitigate security risk from Iran already 20 years ago when there was a good change for it. Current US administration has unfortunately made the situation even worse.
- esotericimpl 3y agoSo your solution is boots on the ground and regime change? it's gone so well in the past it definitely will in the future. /s Maybe instead the US should honor their commitments which would include the Iran Nuclear deal that was scrapped for no reason 5 years ago.
- genman 3y agoI don't believe it to be a good idea. Biden has flirted with Iran with deadly consequences. I'm not going to speculate how good it would to attempt regime change right now but there was a very good opportunity for it when Iran had unrest and they came to a genius idea to murder around 15000 arrested people. The best opportunity would have been of course when US had sizable military formations on both sides of Iran border. On top of it it would have very likely limited large number of civilian causalities in Iraq due to reduced activity of Iran backed terrorist cells.
- expazl 3y agoDespite the odd angle used throughout all the western media propaganda. It was an Iraqi group not Iranian group. The constant push to frame this as "USA vs. Iran" by calling it an Iran-backed group, instead of an Iraqi group, or be specific and state that it was "Islamic Resistance in Iraq" is just befuddling. It's like if the media was covering the current crisis in Palestine/Israel, while never mentioning Israel and instead writing headlines like "USA-backed group bombs hospital in Gaza". As for why this Iraqi group is able to attack USA, it's likely much more to do with the 13 year old failed US Invasion of Iraq than anything to do with Iran. But It feels like USA is embarrassed enough about that whole thing that they have decided to just ignore that Iraq exists and instead consider this to be an attack all along the Jordan-Iran border, which for anyone geographically interested is just as long as the border between USA and France.
- tdeck 3y agoThis is normal for US foreign policy thinking. No official enemy has any agency except a few top-tier foreign adversaries, who are all madmen trying to take over the world. If anyone has a grievance with the US it's because Iran or Russia or China told them to because we're so great what else could the reason be? We literally had Nancy Pelosi claiming that people who call for a ceasefire in Gaza are puppets of Putin.
- JumpCrisscross 3y agoIs the claim the IRI isn’t materially backed by the IRGC invalid?
- bgnn 3y agoThis is so true. US foreign policy thinking is like a bad parody of Hollywood movies.
- genman 3y agoIn large part she was probably not wrong given that a lot of calls for ceasefire and in support of genocide of Jews come indeed from Russian troll accounts.
- DoItToMe81 3y agoI find it very odd that Americans seem to not be able to understand how a highly nationalist people may object to them staying past their welcome date and seek to attack them on their own accord, and that most of these groups existed well before acquiring Iranian funding. Most Iraqis still remember tragedies like the Mahmudiyah massacre. The government of the time took them into account and promised to have American bases closed, but reneged. I think you can see how events like that being rampant might drive people to fight, even a generation later.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> It was an Iraqi group not Iranian group …backed by Iran.
- tptacek 3y ago