The United States is currently at war. No, Congress hasn’t declared war on anyone. The White House and the Pentagon have made no announcement.
There are no bands playing, soldiers marching, or pretty girls throwing flowers at the troops. Nonetheless, the U.S. is involved in a conflict that, unless it’s managed smartly, could lead to a wider war with consequences almost too terrible to contemplate.
While Israel fights for its existence against Hamas and its backers in Iran, another war is raging against U.S. troops stationed in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East.
There have been at least 40 separate drone and rocket attacks against U.S. troops launched by pro-Iran militias from Syria and Iraq. Most of the missiles and drones have been destroyed by U.S. defenses, but several have broken through and hit U.S. troops stationed at bases in Iraq and Syria. There have been a few dozen minor injuries and some rattled nerves. But some U.S. commanders point out that we’ve been lucky so far.
Reuters reports on a failed drone attack where the weapon made it past U.S. air defenses and crashed into an army barracks near Erbil. If it had exploded, the death toll would have been grim. And…
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