And the blow of the United States to the Middle East is also unprecedented. A drone carried out a raid on a U.S. military base near the Syrian border, killing three Americans and injuring more than 30 others. This was the first death of a US team in the Middle East after the start of the Palestinian-Israeli war.
This is not a small shock to the United States. Just yesterday, the United States concluded its first withdrawal talks with Iraq and made clear its intention to withdraw. It's just that what people didn't expect was that the Iraqi army would choose to come out like this at such a critical moment, so that the United States had to give up its plan to retreat.
What's going on? In fact, in the final analysis, there are serious differences and conflicts between the United States and Iraq over when and in what form they will withdraw.
On the surface, the United States says that it will "withdraw," but in fact it has no intention of completely relinquishing its control over the Middle East. Especially given the current situation in the Middle East, the United States must send troops to Iraq in order to counter anti-American forces such as Iran. At the same time, the United States will also use Iraq's power to support the military in Syria and collect supplies from Syria.
The United States, on the other hand, is afraid of being like Afghanistan, because it is afraid that it will arouse public dissatisfaction and accusations, so it cannot withdraw rashly. The U.S. military operation in Afghanistan was so hasty and so hasty that Afghanistan fell into a panic and was criticized by the American people and major news organizations. This requires the United States to be more careful and more careful when it withdraws, so that the same thing does not happen again.
Therefore, the process of consultation and withdrawal of the United States will last for a long time, and there may be twists and turns. This made it unbearable for the Iraqi army. They want the Americans to withdraw from Iraq as soon as possible so that the United States can stop its aggression and intervention in Iraq. So, they've been putting pressure on the U.S. to speed up its withdrawal. However, this time, it was a drone that was used, which surprised everyone.
This air raid has caused heavy losses to the United States, and at the same time, it has also caused them to lose face. The United States, as the strongest military in the world, can't stop a drone, how does this make the outside world evaluate? When the United States withdraws its troops at this time, doesn't that mean that it thinks it has lost the war and bows down to those militants?
Therefore, after this attack, the United States not only cannot withdraw it, but must also intensify its efforts to counterattack the attacking side. Only in this way will the prestige of the United States in the Middle East, as well as the people's dissatisfaction and suspicion about it, disappear with it.
Naturally, the United States will not really fight each other and go to war directly. The situation in the United States at this time is not very good, and a "independence" march broke out in Texas, which gave the United States a headache. Therefore, it is very likely that the US move this time is only symbolic, just like the last air strike against the Houthis. Biden's so-called "accountability" is probably just lip service, but no actual action.
In any case, an unmanned attack on a US military base made talks about the evacuation even more difficult. The United States is not retreating, nor is it retreating, and it is in a dilemma. Naturally, the anti-US forces in the Middle East will not rest on their laurels and launch attacks on the United States to suppress it. The situation in the Middle East is still chaotic.