By William Koenig
April 3, 2024
Former President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden decided to withdraw the majority of American troops in Iraq in late 2011 despite the Pentagon’s suggestion to leave 10,000 troops for Middle East security purposes. The withdrawal helped lead to the rapid formation of ISIS.
At the end of 2021 Biden formalized the end of the American combat missions in Iraq. Recently Iran militias have fired weapons on the remaining troops in Iraq and Syria, and Houthi drones, rockets and missiles were fired in the Red Sea at ships from the U.S., Israel, the United Kingdom, and other countries. (According to Reuters in January 2024, 2,500 U.S. troops remain in Iraq.)
Former President Donald Trump’s military and financial support of U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria was successful in defeating ISIS. U.S. troops eliminated ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi October 27, 2019. And fewer than 72 days later, Iran’s Qasem Soleimani, the leader of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and arguably the second most important leader in Iran, was eliminated by U.S. forces after landing at the Baghdad airport January 6, 2000.
Joe Biden’s disastrous rapid departure from Afghanistan has empowered the Islamic State (ISIS) and helped reestablish them in Afghanistan. And as predicted, when the U.S. hastily evacuated troops from Afghanistan, chaos followed and the Taliban captured Kabul in just 10 days. The consequences were grave.
For more detail click here: The Afghanistan Withdrawal Disaster―Senator Marsha Blackburn
This week the Islamic State urged its supporters to attack Christians and Jews across the United States, Europe and Israel.
The Biden Administration has actively attempted to forge another deal with Iran over the past three years, and as usual, Iran has played the negotiator and given itself perfect cover for its nefarious actions of developing a nuclear bomb, supporting terror proxies and developing advance missiles, possibly even ICBMs, while Biden’s actions help provided tens of billions in new oil revenue for Iran, which did not happen during the Trump term.
Furthermore, Iran’s terror proxies Hamas, Hezbollah and Houthis have deployed thousands of missiles in Yemen, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon pointed at Israel and supplied Hezbollah with over 150,000 rockets under the watchful eyes of U.N. peacekeepers who did nothing to stop this.
Iran continues to have a seat at the U.N., which also gives their president an annual opportunity to chastise Israel in his speech to the U.N. General Assembly every September.
On Monday Iran's Revolutionary Guards said seven officers were killed in an alleged Israeli strike on the Iranian consulate building in Syria's capital, Damascus. Brig-Gen Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior commander of the elite Quds Force, and Brig-Gen Mohammad Hadi Haji-Rahimi, his deputy, were named among the dead. Iran’s supreme leader declared on Tuesday that “Israel will be punished” for the attack.