Biden's half-hearted response to Iranian aggression

 Washington Examiner:

Pentagon announces airstrikes against Iran-backed militias in Iraq-Syria border region

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 "The targets were selected because these facilities are utilized by Iran-backed militias that are engaged in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) attacks against U.S. personnel and facilities in Iraq. Specifically, the U.S. strikes targeted operational and weapons storage facilities at two locations in Syria and one location in Iraq, both of which lie close to the border between those countries," he added.

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Andrew Malcolm explains: 

Biden’s Half-Hearted Bombing for Iran’s Attacks on U.S. Troops Is a Dud

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Now comes word that after the February retaliation, Biden, who desperately wants to restart nuclear talks with Teheran, sent a confidential back-channel message to Iran that the new president did not really want a fight with Iran and that attack was minimal and directed at Iranian militias, not Iran. An official told the Journal that a similar “Take-that-but-don’t-worry-that’s-all” message would be sent after Sunday’s bombing, too.

Biden has also already eased some economic sanctions on Iran and Iranians, none of which has produced any negotiation movement.
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But these two modest Biden attacks with their almost-apologies seem more like military tokens for domestic U.S. consumption than any realistic bid to deter hostile behavior by the world’s largest exporter of terrorism.

Such unsuccessful stances seem chronic to Democratic administrations. In June of 1980, President Jimmy Carter ordered Operation Eagle Claw to rescue 52 Americans held hostage in Teheran. The mission failed to rescue anyone. Eight service members died.

In 1998, a group of terrorists known as al Qaeda under someone named Osama bin Laden was responsible for blowing up U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing more than 200. President Bill Clinton ordered Tomahawk missile attacks on al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan.

Bin Laden was not there. He went on to organize the 9/11 attacks, among other deadly acts. He was not caught until a 2011 Seal Team 6 raid authorized by Barack Obama killed him in a Pakistan housing compound.

That same year without congressional authorization Obama, who had already won the Nobel Peace Prize for some reason, joined a European effort to oust Libya’s dictator Moammar Gaddafi. The coalition eventually succeeded.

A mob killed Gaddafi. But Libya turned into a lawless state that became a training ground for numerous terrorist groups, one of which killed four unprotected Americans in Benghazi, including the ambassador. Obama was nowhere to be seen or heard during that long deadly night.

The next year, 2012, Democrat Obama was asked what might prompt him to use military force in the Syrian civil war? He said “a red line” would be that regime using chemical weapons again on its civilians.

Bashar al-Assad did exactly that months later. But Obama’s threat never materialized. The wily Russian President Vladimir Putin gave the Democrat a face-saving out by appearing to get Syria to surrender all its chemical weapons.

Turns out, al-Assad did not surrender them all. He dropped gas on civilians in rebel areas during the early weeks of Trump’s presidential tenure. Two days later the new Republican president ordered 59 Tomahawk missiles launched to erase that Syrian air force base, which they did.
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Trump was much more effective in dealing with these attacks.  He also took out Iran's terrorist leader who was responsible for attacks on US troops in Iraq.