Manufacturing a Reason to Strike

U.S. Central Command announced Tuesday that American forces are carrying out strikes in southern Iran in response to what CENTCOM has described as attempted attacks on commercial shipping and American troops in the region. Wasn’t Iran’s military supposedly “obliterated,” though? And if that’s true, as President Trump has repeatedly said, then why is Washington spending billions targeting a force that supposedly isn’t a threat, especially while the U.S. military faces a severe financial crisis? Maybe the U.S. is bombing again and “pretending” it’s retaliation, but whatever the reason… the devastation is real. Shrapnel from these U.S. strikes hit an Iranian residential building where a wedding ceremony was being...

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