Sitting Ducks

"My message to Iran is simple. In a bit over a year, there will be a new sheriff in town. None of your sins will be forgotten nor forgiven. You will pay a dear price for all that you have done to the United States as well as Israel. Just saying. You have been warned."   

Imagine if you will, having a son or daughter serving our country right now. That son or daughter is stationed in the Middle East, serving at one of the many small bases we have in Syria or Iraq. For ninety-two times in the past couple months, the Iranian proxies have been shooting missiles, mortars, or drones at some of our bases. There is basically no defense for these things. It is only by the grace of God that nobody has been killed so far. Some troops, however, have had TBI injuries from the blast concussions. Because there are no real defenses for these incoming munitions, our troops are nothing more than sitting ducks. 

Wait - hold on! Are not our rules of engagement, if we are fired upon, we can return fire? Sure are. Don't we have the "big stick" (USS Ford), as well as the IKE over in the area? Yep. And don't we have two AEGIS destroyers also in the area? Yep, again. And don't we have other land-based air assets also in the area? Yes, yes and yes again. Then what pray tell, is our problem? Why are not we giving these proxies a big taste of our wrath? Answer: We have an 81-year-old squish for a Commander-in-Chief. Seems the guy who "beat the hell out of the racist Corn Pop", is now afraid of his own shadow.

We have all heard the stories about how Reagan and Trump responded to bad guys. Not a pretty sight to be on the receiving end of our power. On the other side of the coin, we have heard how Bill Clinton bombed an aspirin factory (just to be safe), or how Obama would "write a nasty letter" if we were attacked. But this Joe Biden takes the cake. The bullies can smell his weakness and fear and continue to kick sand in our faces because of it.

But what will happen, God forbid, if these proxies get lucky on one of their strikes? They get a direct hit on a base and kill some of our troops? What will Mr. Biden do then? We can bomb these proxies all day long, and Iran just laughs. They don't care. Iran will just find some more proxies to do their dirty work. What would I do if I were Commander-in-Chief? I would send a salvo of Tomahawk Missile from our AEGIS Destroyers over to Iran. I would take out one of their major terminals located at one of their ports. The message to Iran would be - if you do it again, we will take out the rest of your terminals, and your ports. And we can go up from there.

Will Biden do that? Not a chance. Way, way too scared. Besides, he is fighting his war against the weather and MAGA Republicans. Oh - and white supremacists also. But Iran? That scares Biden half to death. 

My message to Iran is simple. In a bit over a year, there will be a new sheriff in town. None of your sins will be forgotten nor forgiven. You will pay a dear price for all that you have done to the United States as well as Israel. Just saying. You have been warned.