ANALYSIS – Our troops are seen as ‘sitting ducks.' Joe Biden has been a national security disaster machine since he was elected, churning out debacle after catastrophe after wretched failure.
Other than his Afghan retreat disaster, nowhere is this more apparent than in his failed policy toward the Iranian terror regime and its terror minions in the Mideast.
And together, both his Afghan debacle and his grotesque Iran appeasement have propelled us to the brink of a catastrophic war in the region. Iran and its minions are all weak.
The Biden failures have also produced numerous U.S. wounded troops, victims of Iranian-sponsored attacks.
But most recently, Biden can also be blamed for the loss of two of our best; Navy SEALS sent on a mission off the coast of Somalia to intercept Iranian weapons bound for the Houthis in Yemen.
The two SEALs missing since January 11 have been declared dead.
The pair have been identified as Navy Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Christopher Chambers, 37 and Navy Special Warfare Operator 2nd Class Nathan Gage Ingram, 27. Both were assigned to Naval Special Warfare Group 1 in California.
The SEALs were boarding a vessel when one fell into the water due to huge eight-foot swells and the second, following protocol, jumped in after him.
They are warriors and risk their lives for us daily. However, Biden's weak and cowardly policies contributed greatly to their deaths. And even afterwards, nothing appears to be changing in Biden land.
Iran isn't paying a price for injuring our troops or causing these two deaths.
As The Sun reported: “'I don't think we should be waiting for Americans to be killed,'” the policy director at United Against Nuclear Iran, Jason Brodsky, told the Sun. Unless deterrence against Iran's proxies and Tehran itself is reestablished, he says, ‘our troops are sitting ducks' across the Mideast.”
The Sun added:
For now, Washington has been careful to avoid an uptick in the violence, responding eight times to more than 150 attacks on American targets in Iraq and Syria. The Biden administration “does not want an escalation during an election cycle,” a senior vice president at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Jonathan Schanzer, tells the Sun. Such an escalation “would not be popular among progressives,” he says.
Yet, Mr. Schanzer notes, Iranian proxies in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen are intensifying attacks on America and its allies, and Iran itself is striking American targets and launching missiles at Pakistan. While the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps arms, finances, and trains these proxies, Tehran is attempting to keep plausible deniability about its responsibility for the escalation.
The Sun continued that:
The White House initially abetted the Iranian attempt to maintain public distance, however implausible, from its proxies. After the October 7 Hamas atrocities, Washington officials spread the word that the U.S. has no indication that Iran was “directly” involved in the attack.
The situation was very different under former President Donald Trump. In 2020, Trump ordered the surgical strike that took out the IRGC Quds Force commander, terror mastermind Qassem Soleimani.
Trump also had Iran under a “maximum pressure” campaign consisting of tightly enforced sanctions.
Now Team Biden is doing everything possible to appease Iran. The Sun added:
“We're twisting ourselves into pretzels” to ignore Iran's responsibility for the Mideast violence, Mr. Brodsky says. “We self-deter. The entire Mideast policy is based on fear of escalation, and that's not a strategy. Sometimes we have to escalate to de-escalate.”
Thanks to Biden's cowardly approach to Iran, we are now even closer to a major war in the region, and we just lost to Navy SEALs without any real cost to Iran.
