The White House has been playing their cards close to their chest. But now we know where the U.S. will strike.
And Biden’s leaked war plans have Republicans sounding the alarm.
President Joe Biden told reporters on Tuesday that he has decided how he will retaliate against Iranian-backed terrorists in the Middle East who killed three U.S. soldiers this week and injured dozens more in a suicide drone assault.
Biden claimed that Iran, the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism, is responsible for the murders of Americans “in the sense that they’re supplying the weapons to the people who did it.”
Officials tell CBS News that the suicide drone assault was successful because it flew behind a U.S. drone returning from a mission.
Because the U.S. drone was returning, the base briefly turned down portions of its air defense system to ensure it was not shot down.
The enemy drone took advantage of this opening and targeted the barracks while the men slept.
“Officials say plans call for the U.S. to launch a real bombing campaign, not just another round of one and done retaliatory strikes of the kind it has conducted so far,” according to CBS News.
President Biden said he has reached a decision on the U.S. response to the drone attack that killed three American soldiers in Jordan. The president said he holds Iran responsible for the attack, but emphasized the world does not need a wider conflict in the Middle East. pic.twitter.com/BlOlxgolG2
— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) January 31, 2024
“Once it begins, the bombing is likely to continue for a number of days.”
Andrea Stricker, Deputy Director and Research Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ (FDD) Nonproliferation & Biodefense program, chastised the Biden administration for once again informing the enemy about its plans.
“Having let these attacks go on for so long—resulting in the deaths of three service members—the administration must now ‘shock the system’ of the regime to deter further attacks,” Stricker told The Daily Wire.
“The blow must be so devastating that Tehran orders its proxies to stand down.”
“Anything less than that will ensure this cycle continues and brings the regional war Washington hopes to avoid,” she went on to say.
“The administration is too deliberately telegraphing its desire for restraint. The adversary needs to believe we are both able and willing to use major force to avenge these deaths and prevent additional ones.”
No matter where you stand on who we should strike and how hard we should, we all can agree on this point.
Our adversaries think we are weak.
We need to show them we aren’t.
And we can’t just tell them where we’ll strike. It needs to be fast and hard.
Stay tuned to the DC Daily Journal.
