More United States-Driven Escalations Toward War In The Middle East by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2024-01-28 at 21:42:22 )

More United States-Driven Escalations Toward War In The Middle East by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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Every United States military fatality in the middle east is the fault of the United States government for putting them there.

Well, it finally happened. The scores of attacks on United States troops in the middle east in response to Israels United States-backed atrocities in Gaza have resulted in American deaths, just as critics of United States foreign policy have been saying would happen for months. At least now we can stop bracing for it, I guess.

Antiwars Dave DeCamp, among those who have long warned of this eventuality, writes the following:

"Three United States troops were killed by an overnight drone attack in northeastern Jordan, the first Americans to die by enemy fire in the region since President Biden threw the United States weight behind the Israeli onslaught in Gaza.

"According to CNN, one-way attack drones hit Tower 22, a small United States outpost in Jordan near the Syrian border. Over 30 troops were also wounded in the attack.

"Since mid-October, United States bases in Iraq and Syria have come under attack over 150 times in response to United States support for the Israeli slaughter in Gaza. The overnight drone attack in Jordan appears to be the first time Tower 22 was targeted."

Three American Troops Killed in Drone Attack in Jordan
Biden is blaming "Iran-backed militants," referring to Iraqi Shia militias, and might directly attack Iran in response
by Dave DeCamp-Antiwar.com (Antiwarcom) January 28, 2024

The Biden administration immediately claimed the attack was backed by Iran, with profoundly influential news agencies like AP and Reuters regurgitating this claim as established fact in their headlines immediately thereafter.

As DeCamp notes in the aforementioned article, back in October a United States official acknowledged to CNN that that there is actually a "persistent intelligence gap" as to how much these Shia militias are in fact beholden to the orders of Tehran, but apparently this attack being linked to Iran is now being treated as established gospel truth anyway.

This attribution has allowed perpetually war-horny Republican senators Lindsey Graham, Tom Cotton and John Cornyn to call on Biden to attack Iran directly. United States officials actually told the press last week that Biden would consider direct strikes on Iran if and when the attacks on United States troops led to American deaths, with The New York Times reporting the Biden administration knew it was "only a matter of time" before this occurred.

In a statement on the attacks Biden said the United States "will hold all those responsible to account at a time and in a manner our choosing," meaning yet another military escalation in the middle east is on its way under this murderous administration.

A full-scale war with Iran would be the absolute worst-case scenario resulting from the violence which erupted in the middle east this past October, potentially with mass deaths on a scale that would make what has been happening in Gaza look like childs play.

Lacking any defensible justification for why the three dead United States troops were in Syria-Jordan to begin with, the White House resorts to saying they were generically "fighting terrorism." Insult to everyones intelligence, but that is to be expected for United States foreign policy statements--Michael Tracey (mtracey) January 29, 2024

In that same statement Biden said the United States troops who were killed in the "despicable and wholly unjust attack" died working "to fight terrorism", which is of course ridiculous.

People who live in the middle east have far more legitimacy attacking United States troops in resistance to a United States-backed genocide than United States troops have in being in the middle east to begin with, and the United States military presence they attacked is there to shore up geostrategic control, not to fight terror.

As Aris Roussinos explains in a new article for Unherd, the United States base by the Jordan-Syria border that was struck by Iraqi forces functions as a support base for Americas al-Tanf garrison, a sprawling "deconfliction zone" (read: illegal military occupation) in Syria which the United States has for years been using to disrupt Iranian activities in the region and help Israel carry out its constant airstrikes in Syria. "Fighting terrorism" is just the pretense for the United States military presence in the region; as always, the real reason is to facilitate the geostrategic domination of the United States empire.

Those three United States military personnel did not die fighting terrorism. They did not even die advancing the interests of ordinary Americans. The real reason they died was summed up nicely by Responsible Statecrafts Trita Parsi:

"They did not die defending United States interests, they died defending Bidens refusal to press Israel for a ceasefire. Their lives were put at risk by Biden to defend Israels ability to continue its carnage in Gaza."

Parsi has spent months arguing that the only thing that can de-escalate the rapidly expanding hostilities in the middle east is a ceasefire in Gaza, since that is what they all ultimately arise from.

The massive increase in attacks on United States troops, the Yemeni blockade in the Red Sea, the brinkmanship with Hezbollah in Lebanon and the skyrocketing tensions with Iran are all the direct result of Israels massacre in Gaza and the opposition thereto.

Instead of pushing for a ceasefire, the United States is preparing to send Israel 50 fighter jets and 12 Apache helicopters in preparation for the next war while stepping toward the horrifying prospect of a hot war with Iran. Meanwhile Nancy Pelosi is saying there needs to be an FBI investigation into people calling for a ceasefire, because they might be Russian secret agents.-Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) January 29, 2024

Every United States military fatality in the middle east is the fault of the United States government for putting them there. United States troops should not be in the middle east at all, and the United States has no legitimacy in retaliating against efforts to kick them out of the region by the people who live there.

Iraqi militias have 100 percent legitimacy in attacking United States troops in the middle east during a United States-backed genocide, and the United States has zero legitimacy in retaliating.

To the managers of the United States empire:

Get out of the middle east. Just get the f-ck out.

Stop backing a genocide in Gaza, stop murdering people to shore up domination of world resources, and leave.

Leave before you unleash something far worse than the nightmare you have already inflicted upon our species!

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