Murderous plane, drone bombings not making America safer

Just 8 months into his presidency, President Biden has launched dozens of plane and drone airstrikes against suspected bad guys in at least 4 countries: Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia and Syria.

Afghanistan gets the brunt of America’s devastating firepower. Biden is trying to slow the Taliban’s inexorable march to dethrone America’s puppet government in Kabul, about the only place they don’t yet control. But over a hundred thousand bombs in the last 20 years hasn’t deterred the Taliban from resuming control over Afghanistan. Biden’s latest bombings are simply killing people for nothing.

Iraq and Syria get Biden’s explosive treatment to send a message to Iraqi militias to stop attacking America’s illegal and immoral occupation of the Iraqi homeland we’ve been degrading in war for 19 years. They will never comply with that message as long as the U.S. refuses the demand of the Iraqi president and parliament to get out. Why did they demand our leaving? Nineteen years of war punctuated by a drone bombing at Baghdad airport that killed 10 Iranian and Iraqi military personnel.

Then there is Biden’s continuation of bombing in African Somalia. The target there is al-Shabaab, a militant group simply serving as another lame excuse explode murderous American firepower.

The president likes to say that in foreign affairs, ‘America is back.’ But when it comes to endless, senseless bombings around the world not making us any safer….America never left.