Biden's phony bluster?

 Streif:

Joe Biden's Afghanistan Drone Strike Against ISIS-K Is a Joke, and We Are the Punchline

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 Cut down to its basics; the US carried out a drone strike on an alleged ISIS-K planner…whatever that means…located in Nangarhar province. At its nearest point, Nangarhar is about 30 miles from HKIA. As it is unlikely this “planner” was minutely paralleling the province boundary, odds are he was in or near one of the handful of towns in that province.

For retaliation to be effective, it has to have three elements. It must be timely, visible, and it must be at least proportionate (my bias is towards disproportionate).

This exercise fails on at least two counts. Following up an attack that was an international story that took out 33 of your troops with an out-of-the-way attack that maybe killed one person does not say, “don’t do this again.” Rather it is a signal that you are weak, and it is open season on your people with no bag limit and no size restrictions.

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And how effective was it in deterring future attacks?  The headline below suggest it was inconsequential>

Biden Says Another Terrorist Attack on Kabul Airport is ‘Highly Likely’ in Next 36 Hours