Middle East Round-Up

Tower 22

For those of you not tracking, some tribe of inbred goat-f*ckers killed 3 Soldiers and injured at least 38 more in Jordan Saturday night. I held off on writing about it since then, because I was expecting a response. Yah, I know, wishful thinking.

As I was getting ready to publish this, some new intel crossed the transom. Tower 22, the US base in Northwestern Jordan, was not the only target. A suicide drone was shot down by a US Coyote drone over al Tanf, the US base in Syria. The Coyote took the shot as it was returning to Tower 22.

So far, all we’ve seen from the White House is a weak-kneed statement about the attack.

Yesterday, the majority of Iran-backed militias were told by the IRGC to abandon their bases of operation pending a US attack. This makes targeting more difficult for the US.

As of late yesterday, several KC-135 tankers were outbound from their base at March AFB in Southern California headed to RAF Lakenheath in the UK. It is unclear if this is a regular rotation or related to the situation in Jordan.

Biden met with the NSC this morning to discuss the situation. This meeting should have occurred Saturday night, or at the latest Sunday morning.

. . .National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, Chief of Staff Jeff Zients, Principal Deputy National Security Advisor Jon Finer, Homeland Security Advisor Dr. Liz Sherwood Randall, and NSC Coordinator for the Middle East Brett McGurk.

I am not sanguine about the response. Sullivan, Finer and McGurk are all Iran apologists. Sullivan in particular shouldn’t be anywhere near the decision making process.

I expect a set of limited strikes err, a strongly worded letter in retaliation, but that isn’t what needs to happen. Limiting our response just shows weakness.

Look, we all know Iran is behind these attacks, including those on shipping in the Gulf of Aden-Bab el Mandeb-Red sea area. Iran needs to be taught a harsh lesson. The Iranian spy ship, Beshad, that’s feeding targeting data to the Houthi needs to become a reef. The Iranian proxies that are actually pulling the triggers need to meet Allah. And any IRGC forces outside of Iran proper need to catch a J-DAM.