The U.S. may find itself at war in both Iran and Iraq, to Israel’s delight. Good thing nobody in those two countries knows anything about guerrilla warfare. From Dave DeCamp at antiwar.com:
The US launched another round of airstrikes in Iraq on Tuesday as tensions continue to soar in the region.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said in a statement that the strikes targeted three facilities used by Kataib Hezbollah and other “Iranian-affiliated groups,” referring to Iraqi Shia militias.
A correspondent for Al Mayadeen said the strikes targeted positions of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) in several areas. The PMF is a coalition of Iraqi militias that was formed in 2014 to fight ISIS and is part of Iraq’s security forces. The correspondent said strikes on Jurf al-Nasr, a town south of Baghdad, killed at least two people.
Austin said the strikes were in retaliation for attacks on US bases in Iraq and Syria that started in mid-October in response to President Biden’s support for the Israeli slaughter in Gaza. He claimed the US does not “seek to escalate the conflict in the region.” But the US has launched several rounds of airstrikes in both Iraq and Syria that have only escalated the situation.
The Iraqi government of Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, the US’s supposed partner in Iraq, has been furious with the US over the airstrikes. Al-Sudani has been calling for the US-led coalition in Iraq to leave, but there’s no sign the Biden administration is preparing for a withdrawal.
He wins his battles by making no mistakes. Makingno mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory,for it means conquering an enemy that is alreadydefeated.
Hence the skillful fighter puts himself into a posi-tion which makes defeat impossible, and does not missthe moment for defeating the enemy.
Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist onlyseeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas hewho is destined to defeat first fights and afterwardslooks for victory.
Sun Tzu, The Art of WAR