My Take | Joe Biden is trying to get us all killed
- While it’s unclear whether Iran can be blamed for the drone killing of three US soldiers, it’s American decision makers like the president who put them in harm’s way in the first place
I don’t know about you but I am scared stiff. The Bible has always said Armageddon will start in the Middle East.
This was the situation in the volatile region and western Asia even before a drone attack over the weekend by militants allegedly linked to Iran killed three American soldiers. It all goes back to the war in Palestine.
Israel has been bombing Lebanon and Syria. The United States has been bombing Iraq, Syria and Yemen. The Houthis rebel group from Yemen has been targeting Western cargo ships in the Red Sea. Turkey has been bombing Syria and Iraq. Iran has dropped bombs on Syria, Iraq and Pakistan.
Now, even Jordan has been attacked, as the three US soldiers were killed at an outpost in the country near the Syrian border.
In case you wonder why everyone is bombing Syria, it’s because thanks to a nasty civil war and its aftermath, every power player in the region has forces, whether proxy or regular, inside it. So for years, they have been bombing and killing each other inside Syria to avoid an outright war between sovereign states. It has been the same with the Yemen civil war. That’s the international political system for you. It’s actually infantile if it weren’t so bloodthirsty.
Israel has been dying to bomb Iran. Now the US may have the perfect excuse to carry out the hit. Of course, that might be problematic. It’s pretty clear that Iran, like the other major Arab states, actually is frightened and wants to de-escalate. That would have to start with a ceasefire in Gaza, but somehow, the C-word has become a taboo in Western capitals. Israel must be allowed to do whatever it wants, however long it takes, according to the ethical-political calculus of the West, or rather the lack thereof.
