When Biden was out of the office, Iran took over the Red Sea
American soldiers and sailors battled Iran’s terrorists while their leaders lay on the beach. There was no national security team. Op-ed.
www.israelnationalnews.com
Daniel Greenfield released this article in Israel National News yesterday. It is well worth reading.
Here is a quote from the start of the article, click above link to read more. My emphasis in bold! :
"On New Year’s Eve, Houthi Jihadists opened fire on US Navy choppers who were coming to the rescue of a container ship that the Iran-backed terrorists operating out of Yemen were hijacking.
Navy personnel were not allowed to preemptively attack the terrorists, only to issue warnings to them, until they were personally in danger. Only then were they finally allowed to fight back.
U.S. Central Command proposed targeting Houthi bases to end the wave of attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea. The proposal went to the Pentagon where Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin had undergone surgery to remove his prostate and had been released a week earlier. On Jan 1, Austin began experiencing severe pain and was taken to the hospital.
Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks, a Pentagon bureaucrat with no meaningful military experience, was vacationing in Puerto Rico when she was told that she needed to take over for Austin who was in the ICU where he would stay for four days. She proposed cutting short her vacation and coming back in two days, rather than right away, but then she decided to stay on the beach and handle the responsibility for the national defense over Zoom.
Kelly Magsamen, Austin’s Chief of Staff, a former vice president of the left-wing Center for American Progress, was out sick with the flu, and did not know what was happening.
Central Command’s request to take out Houthi targets finally made its way to Biden who had left on the 27th for his own vacation in the Caribbean, but he rejected any attack.
Biden and Hicks had both decided to go on vacation even though the Houthis had stepped up their attacks on Dec 23rd. Austin had undergone his prostatectomy on that same day.
On Christmas Day, Iran’s terrorist allies in Iraq had launched a drone attack that wounded three service members including Chief Warrant Officer Garrett Illerbrunn who suffered a brain injury when shrapnel struck his head. Still senior administration officials did not change their plans.
As Iran took over the region, no one was in the office at the Biden administration."
The article continues. How the Houthis and the Iranians managed to gain traction, shut down international shipping in the Red Sea, without a meaningful response from Washington for WEEKS!
