LOS ANGELES.–Attacking Kataib Hezbollah commander in Baghdad with predator drone, 81-year-old President Joe Biden upped the ante after the Jan. 28 drone strike on Tower 22 forward base in Jordan, killing three U.S. soldiers, injuring 40. Biden’s recent attacks on Iranian-backed militia groups in Iraq, Syria and Houthis in Yemen sends a message to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Whether Khamenei listens or not, Biden has been encouraged by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) to go after the Ayatollah directly, hitting Iran’s oil infrastructure, maybe its uranium enrichment facilities. Today’s drone strike targeted Ketaib leader Wissam Mohammed “Abu Bakr” al-Saddi one the main street in the Mashal neighborhood in eastern Baghdad. Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al Sudan condemned the latest attacks as violating Iraq’s national sovereignty and security.
Since the 2003 Iraq War, when former President George W. Bush toppled Saddam Hussein April 10, 2003, Iraq has formed a close political alliance with Iran, an unintended consequence of the Iraq War. Tensions ratcheted up in Iraq after the Ayatollah ordered his militias he calls the “axis of resistance” to attack U.S. and Israel interests in the region following the Oct. 7 Israeli-Hamas War. Kataib Hezbollah chief Ahmad Hamidawi said last week he was suspending all attacks on U.S. targets, hoping to stop U.S. and U.K. bombardment on his Iranian-backed militia group. Biden finds himself stuck in a vicious cycle, trying to stop the Ayatollah from dominating the region. Funding Yemen’s Houthi rebels, Lebanon’s Hezbollah, Iraq and Syria’s Kataib Hezbollah and other Shiite militia, Ayatollah has become the world biggest sponsor of State terrorism.
Since Iran seized the U.S. embassy taking 66 hostages in 1979, driving U.S.-backed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi from Tehran, the U.S. has had no diplomatic relations. While the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomenei returned the hostages, Jan. 20, 1981, the day President Ronald Reagan was sworn in, threats mount. Former President Jimmy Carter lost the election by a landslide because of a botched hostage rescue mission in the summer before the election. When the prime interest rate hit 21% that also entered into Carter’s record loss. But Biden faces the same fate as voters watch him flail around in Yemen, Iraq and Syria, stirring up a hornet’s nest at the expense of U.S. troops and national security. Biden finds himself in quicksand trying to contain the Ayatollah’s many militia groups, all slashing U.S. national security by a thousand cuts. Biden’s proxy war in Ukraine leaves U.S. foreign policy in shambles.
War hawks in Congress, including Graham, have given Biden the green light to lash out at Russian President Vladimir Putin for invading Ukraine Feb. 24, 2022. Biden and Ukraine’s 45-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky insist that if they don’t beat Putin, he’ll conquer other countries in Europe. Fomer Fox News Journalist Tucker Carlson is busy interviewing Putin to set the record straight, from his point of view, why he moved the Russian army into Ukraine. Carlson has no ax to grind other than stopping Biden’s madness to wage war against the Kremlin under the fake pretense that Putin would start taking over Europe. Putin has made numerous peace overtures since the war began, all rejected by Biden and Zelensky unless he meets certain unrealistic conditions. Biden and Zelensky want Putin to pull out all of Ukraine, including the Crimean Peninsula.
Ayatollah calls his militias wreaking havoc over the Middle East and North Africa the “axis of resistance,” to divert attention away from his hegemony over Sunni states in the Middle East. By telling various groups that he backs the destruction of Israel, Ayatollah hopes to enlist Sunni nations into his terror network, How ironic that when 62-year-old Hamas leader in exile Ismail Haniyeh went to the Ayatollah Nov. 5, 2023 for help with Israel, Hanieyeh was told he’s on his own. So, when it comes to the Aytollah’s “axis of resistance” it’s all fake, designed to gaslight Sunni groups in the region. Ask 38-year-old Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman about his seven-year war with Yemen’s Houthi rebels. Bin Salman knows that the Ayatollah has everyone, including Biden, dancing on a string, while he gets various fringe Shiite groups to do all his heavy lifting.
Biden’s attacks on the Ayatollah’s various militias doesn’t stop him from continuing to wreak havoc in the Middle East and North Africa. Houthi attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea, Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman are already costing billions in extra shipping costs as shipping companies reroute to the Cape of Good Hope, putting thousands of miles onto shipping routes. Biden finds himself out on a limb, no longer counting on Putin and the Russian Federation for cooperation in hot spots around the globe. With Biden demanding $60 billion more to keep the Ukraine War going, the U.S. is now a mortal enemy of the Kremlin. Decades of diplomacy, détente and arms control have been tossed out the window by Biden, all because of his obsession with Ukraine. Putin set the record straight he has no intent of conquering other European countries. He’s only asking that Biden stop funding the Ukraine war machine, threatening Russian national Security.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
