{"id":1622846,"date":"2022-08-26T10:23:14","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T14:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1622846"},"modified":"2022-08-26T10:23:37","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T14:23:37","slug":"biden-brings-a-butter-knife-to-an-iranian-gunfight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-brings-a-butter-knife-to-an-iranian-gunfight\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Brings a Butter Knife to an Iranian Gunfight"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-brings-a-butter-knife-to-an-iranian-gunfight%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1622846&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p><span>It\u2019s tempting to view the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2022\/08\/23\/us-military-strikes-syria-iran-irgc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>U.S. airstrikes<\/span><\/a><span> this week in Syria against an Iranian-aligned target with optimism\u2014a signal that President Joe Biden is finally done negotiating with a regime that inspired the near murder of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/irans-death-sentence-for-salman-rushdie-changed-the-meaning-of-fatwa-in-english-11660854224\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>Salman Rushdie<\/span><\/a><span> and is still trying to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/08\/11\/bolton-iran-assassination-plot-tehran-government-00051083\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>murder<\/span><\/a><span> Donald Trump, John Bolton, and Mike Pompeo.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Who are we kidding? Joe Biden is a Democrat, and there are few legacies more precious to his party than reviving former president Barack Obama\u2019s Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>That is why Tuesday\u2019s airstrikes are not worth a warm bucket of spit. Consider the statement from Colonel Joe Buccino confirming the U.S. operation. The U.S. &#8220;<\/span><span>targeted infrastructure facilities used by groups affiliated with Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps,&#8221; he <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centcom.mil\/MEDIA\/STATEMENTS\/Statements-View\/Article\/3137354\/fbclid\/statement-regarding-precision-strikes-in-syria\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span>, adding that the strikes were a &#8220;proportionate, deliberate action intended to limit the risk of escalation and minimize the risk of casualties.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>That\u2019s the geopolitical equivalent of arresting street dealers and letting the kingpins skate. In the 1990s, this tactic was called &#8220;cruise-missile diplomacy&#8221;: Make a point, but don\u2019t risk tit-for-tat escalation. That\u2019s why no senior Iranian officers were targeted and why the only casualties, according to a group monitoring developments on the ground, were 10 militia fighters, whom Iran treats like cannon fodder.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It looks even worse when one considers the escalations from Iran on nearly all fronts. The Syria strike was a response to a series of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/energy\/how-iran-isleveling-the-drone-battlefield\/2021\/10\/21\/d179ba4a-32cb-11ec-8036-7db255bff176_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>drone<\/span><\/a><span> attacks on the U.S. base in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2022\/08\/15\/syria-tanf-drone-strike-us-base\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>Tanf,<\/span><\/a><span> a critical facility that monitors Iranian weapons shipments to Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syria and is crucial to assisting local fighters in their battle against the remnants of the Islamic State.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In this respect, Biden\u2019s airstrike is a weak man\u2019s attempt to signal resolve in the midst of capitulation. The leaks from Vienna, where U.S. envoy Rob Malley is negotiating through his Russian counterpart with Iran\u2019s diplomats, are not encouraging. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IranIntl_En\/status\/1560680173938393094?s=20&amp;t=PZmJw6F2N9_HnqOPxmwnMQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>Iran International<\/span><\/a><span> reported last week on notes from the regime\u2019s top negotiator indicating Iran rejected Malley\u2019s request for a commitment to end attacks on U.S. citizens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>We\u2019re under no illusion that Biden, Malley, and company are taking their cues from us, but gentlemen: Read the room, pack your bags, and save your last shred of dignity. The Iranians don\u2019t want a deal. They want us dead.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s tempting to view the U.S. airstrikes this week in Syria against an Iranian-aligned target with optimism\u2014a signal that President Joe Biden is finally done negotiating with a regime that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":1894458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1622846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1622846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1894458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1622846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1622846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1622846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}