Many unanswered questions about the attack that killed 3 U.S. soldiers, including the question that should have been asked before they were killed: what are U.S. soldiers doing in Syria, a country whose government never invited a U.S. occupation and wants nothing more than the Americans to leave? From Moon of Alabama at moonofalabama.org:
Yesterday 3 U.S. troops were killed and 34 wounded due to an attack that allegedly hit on a place known as Tower 22. This is part of the Al Tanf area where U.S. troops illegally occupy parts of Syria to control the traffic on the main road between Iraq and Syria.
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The reporting so far does not answer many arising questions.
Tower 22 is on the Jordanian side of the boarder but Jordan insists that no attack had happened on its grounds.
Another anomaly are the high rate of wounded from the alleged drone strike. Drones are used in mass in the Ukraine war but the casualties they cause are usually less than a handful per drone.
The highly automated short and medium range air-defenses (C-RAMs, the equivalent of naval Phalanx guns) at the base should be able to shoot down any drone. Why didn’t they work?
The U.S. has also used Al Tanf base and the Rukban camp to house and train ISIS splinter groups so they are able to attack perceived U.S. enemies. Were any of those folks around?
The U.S. claims that an Iraqi resistance group, allegedly supported by Iran, is responsible for the strike. There are several such groups allied with Iran in Syria and Iraq. Which one of them did this? Does the U.S. know this at all?
Iran denies any involvement in the attack.
What a great place for a fort!
Patton would hear voices there and those horns.
Were the 3 expendables POC for a reason?
The real monsters are the Scylla and Charybdis BioLeninism of the UNI party with the rest of us stuck in the middle without the great Gerry Rafferty Stealer’s Wheel song.
Lies, all lies.
RE-UP for the Bennies! I am sure Bubba, Shamika, Tyrone, Juan, Brucie/Lucy and the rest of the “Be All You Can Be” crowd had no idea they would end up as staked goats for the Lindsay Graham-John Bolton-Nikki Haley musical review. I hope this is a lesson to all of the Gen-X/Millennial Mall Zombies: Don’t sell your soul for the MIC and the Uniparty. I made that mistake in 1969 and it is only because of timing and politics that I did not end up fertilizing some Dink’s rice paddy during our “Police Action” in VN. Life is a vale of tears. Bleib ubrig. - DTW