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2022-08-24 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Biden orders airstrikes against Iranian-backed groups in Syria following attacks near base holding US troops last week

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Posted by Snash Shairt9621 2022-08-24 03:15|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran Proxies

#1

Ah! Come Man
"President Joe Biden ordered airstrikes "?
More like, whoever is really running the GOV did it. 🙉

Posted by NN2N1 2022-08-24 07:32|| 2022-08-24 07:32|| Front Page Top

#2 He couldn't "order" a cheeseburger.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-08-24 07:52|| 2022-08-24 07:52|| Front Page Top

#3 And our vital national interest in Syria is...?

Posted by Tom 2022-08-24 08:23|| 2022-08-24 08:23|| Front Page Top

#4 LOL as if they care about civilian casualties. They're just future terrorists anyway. Mow the grass and get them while they're young.

Posted by Tiny Jeater6933 2022-08-24 08:40|| 2022-08-24 08:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Puppeteers: Mar-Lago hit the fan. We need a distraction.

Posted by Mercutio 2022-08-24 08:53|| 2022-08-24 08:53|| Front Page Top

#6 Why the US airstrike on Iranian forces in Syria matters - analysis

Posted by Skidmark 2022-08-24 09:13|| 2022-08-24 09:13|| Front Page Top

#7 I see we are back to dropping bombs on people.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-08-24 10:00|| 2022-08-24 10:00|| Front Page Top

#8 A young woman I know is in the Army Reserve. She has received orders and is being activated for a deployment to Syria.

I don't know if this is just a normal rotation of troops or if it signifies a escalation.

In either case, we have no business risking lives to save Muslims. They all hate us and if the more they kill each other, the better.

Posted by EMS Artifact 2022-08-24 10:28|| 2022-08-24 10:28|| Front Page Top

#9 The dem marching song: If some debt is good, more is better. If some war is good, more is better...

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-08-24 10:36|| 2022-08-24 10:36|| Front Page Top

#10 Oh, and the GOPe is singing tenor in that choir.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-08-24 10:37|| 2022-08-24 10:37|| Front Page Top

#11 This might screw up ValJar's plans.

Didn't he get the memo?

Posted by Mullah Richard 2022-08-24 10:49|| 2022-08-24 10:49|| Front Page Top

#12 Perhaps discussing the shape of the table for the negotiating room.

And what Beso said. If he had twice the brains he has now, he would be working on why McDonald's can't serve him ice cream.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-08-24 10:51|| 2022-08-24 10:51|| Front Page Top

#13 Well there is oil being exported from the US controlled areas in Sryia - and the Turkish and Iranian. The residue Syrian official government (backed by the Russians) is losing all that potential revenue. So far everyone has tried to only target the indigenous forces not the advisors. If US direct assets deliberately strike direct assets of one of the other players, tit for tat could easily escalate. The US supply chain is far longer than those of the other contestants. FWIW if we’d created an independent Kurdistan 20 years ago it’d have been a more tranquil situation - or at least a different set of more solvable problems

Posted by Griter Slash1619 2022-08-24 11:08|| 2022-08-24 11:08|| Front Page Top

#14 I'm sure Biden will get a Nobel Prize. People have gotten them for less.

Posted by ruprecht 2022-08-24 16:50|| 2022-08-24 16:50|| Front Page Top

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