At least a dozen US military sites across the Gulf region have been so badly damaged by Iran’s retaliation to US and Israeli attacks that their presence now creates significantly more vulnerabilities than it does benefits, a slate of Middle East experts argued on Thursday.
The original revelation about the state of the bases was first reported in The New York Times last month, in which they were described as “all but uninhabitable”.
The Trump administration has yet to acknowledge the extent of the damage sustained.
“This is the physical architecture of American primacy, and Iran has essentially rendered it useless in the span of a month,” Marc Lynch, director of the Project on Middle East Political Science at George Washington University, said at the Arab Center Washington DC’s annual conference.
that has already happened. iran has bombed a couple of hotels some us targets were staying in, back when they were still bombing their military bases.
did any journalist point on how they used civilian infrastructure to hide military headquarters, ie, the excuse they used to justify a genocide?
As I recall the NYT admitted that the US had moved troops to office spaces and hotels, but only as a bare statement of fact with no mention that it entails using civilians human shields and is a war crime
yhea, bullshit.
we spent years letting Israel do a genocide because people in the densest city in the world are in the densest city in the world. but it’s ok for the US to hide military infrastructure in civilian hotels, or Israel to put the mossad headquarters in the heart of tel Aviv.
that’s how the rules based international order works. a resistance group building tunnels under a walled-off ghettoized city is “using human shields”, but the most powerful army in the world* putting up troops in hotels to avoid them getting targeted at base, thus making the hotels targets, is just a reasonable tactical move.
*formerly accurate, now in question