Oh, I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going to turn a double somersault, and land in our rear and on both of our flanks at the same time. Go back to your command, and try to think what we are going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do.
General US Grant
It’s been more than adequately demonstrated that all we needed to secure our southern border was not a new law but a new president.
It’s now being demonstrated that all we need to do in order to check Iran’s proxies is to demonstrate that we mean business.
Furthermore it appears that our Houthis friends are going to have a lot more to worry about than US air strikes
Yemeni pro-government forces are reportedly preparing to launch a ground offensive aimed at retaking the strategic port city of Hodeidah, according to officials speaking to CNN. The planned operation is expected to be backed by coordinated Saudi and U.S. air and naval support. The decision to pursue a ground assault comes amid growing assessments that continued airstrikes alone have stopped short of halting the Iranian-backed Houthi group’s persistent drone and ballistic missile attacks targeting commercial vessels in the Red Sea.
And lo and behold it appears that the various Iranian backed militias in Iraq have suddenly decided that disarming is a pretty good idea:
Several powerful Iranian-backed militia groups in Iraq are prepared to disarm for the first time to avert the threat of an escalating conflict with the U.S. Trump administration, 10 senior commanders and Iraqi officials told Reuters.
and apparently Iran has given their blessing for those guys to do what they can to save their own skins:
The commanders said their main ally and patron, Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) military force, had given them its blessing to take whatever decisions they deemed necessary to avoid being drawn into a potentially ruinous conflict with the United States and Israel.
What a difference the right president makes.
Closing thought: How different would history have been in the United States had declared war on Iran the day after they took our people hostage and invaded. One of the greatest terror networks in the world and the rise in Islamic militants in the west could have been totally averted.
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