Former CIA Director: U.S. response to strike in Jordan requires a ‘very significant response’



The White House is weighing its response options after three U.S. soldiers were killed and several more were injured in a strike on a base in Jordan. Retired General David Petraeus says, “this will require multiple substantial kinetic strikes; and the big question is, do you confine them just to Syria and perhaps to Iraq.”

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44 comments

  1. Iraq don’t want us there he’s lying

  2. Will Putin help trump rule the Middle East??

  3. REPEATING ANOTHER COMMENT:

    Gone but not forgotten:

    Sgt. William Jerome Rivers, 46, of Carrollton, GA

    Spc. Kennedy Ladon Sanders, 24, of Waycross, GA, and

    Spc. Breonna Alexsondria Moffett, 23, of Savannah, GA.

  4. General, IMHO, the general Public does not need to know Coms are going through Doha and what, was it Miami or Tampa, I forget, well unless it's a feint to mislead the opposition, but they'll likely figure out shortly, so why not just leave out these details?

  5. Another warmonger who probably works for the corruption laden military industrial complex ..

  6. All Soldiers life Matters!! Don't do nothing.

  7. Despite US actions happening repeatedly!

  8. "If you ain't vote for me you ain't black"
    – Joe Biden

  9. USA is going to airstrike a launch site…. which is just a flat piece of dirt in the middle of the desert.

  10. The same gen. who sold us the weapons of mass distraction sad and fake war.

  11. While sad, US troops should not be in that side of the world. Imagine Saddam Hussein with troops in CA

  12. Iran has the right to defend itself, if America attacks Iran they will do so from afar using only missiles because they are scared of a full blown war with Iran and losing US aircraft. Iran has advanced anti aircraft capabilities…!!!

  13. Press the button cmon, quit being a p***y. Lindsay Graham for president!

  14. Lets send Hunter to Tehran – Joe

  15. Getting out of hot spots is probably the best way tonstay away from troubles.

  16. An attack that killed three American servicemen was not on Jordanian soil but in Syria, a spokesperson for Jordan’s government said on Sunday. Muhannad al Mubaidin told Jordanian public broadcaster al Mamlaka television that the attack had targeted the US Al-TanfAl-TanfAl-Tanf (Arabic: التَّنْف) is a U.S. military base in an American occupied part of the Homs Governorate, Syria. It is located 24km (15 mi) west of the al-Walid border crossing in the Syrian Desert. The surrounding deconfliction zone is located along the Iraq–Syria border and the Jordan–Syria border.https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Al-TanfAl-Tanf – Wikipedia base in Syria

  17. These guys are crazy if they start blasting Iran. Get our troop out of there! These are small covert bases for controlling oil investments by private companies! This oil isn’t even coming here, it’s going to Turkey then to Europe!

  18. Which proxy group of Iran decided to do this?

  19. Americas are pirates here, invading other countries to control & loot them. Everybody hates USA, why they love Russia.

  20. Clearly, a Mossad attack. Netanyahu feels the noose tightening around his neck. Anything to draw the States in….

  21. Another forever war. We are 34 trillion dollars in red. Our policies have failed in the middle east. We should pack and leave.

  22. The American people will now support direct action against military targets in Iran. Its common knowkedge Iran supported and lead the insurgent attacks during the US occupation of Iraq.

  23. We lost five in the last two weeks if you count the seals lost in the gulf of Aden

  24. The clock is ticking for Iran…..

  25. A super nasty retired General Dynamics director, previously worked in San Diego, probably more than 85 yrs old now, is exploiting illegally US Gov's monitoring satellite to harass normal US civilians, inside USA & all over the world for his own entertainment & amusement.

    These remote sensors of the monitoring satellites are capable of interpreting the words you're thinking in your mind, may be, by air vibration or by scanning the brainwaves from your brain.

    The Israeli IDF are using similar satellite technologies to spy on the Hamas leadership hiding deep inside the Gaza Tunnels. IDF once released footage of these videos in much degraded resolution.

    This retired General Dynamics director could have been the mastermind behind the plane crash killing the Secretary of Commerce Ronald Brown of the Clinton Administration, in the plane crash in 1996 in Croatia.

    The United States as we learned and studied in American high school does not exist anymore; it has been destroyed.

    Joe Biden allows this to happen…

    United States have been dead. American citizens don't have human rights.

    This retired Director of General Dynamics is a disgrace of the United States.

    If this America disgrace wants to play any American civilian, he just puts this American onto the blacklist for monitoring, and he can harass this American civilian.

  26. they attacked cause they wants the weapons at the USA base so Iran can recycle the left overs when the houltis sale it to iran

  27. How did firebase drone security fail? Or did Iranians give its stooges a more sophisticated drone?

  28. What are you going to do when they laugh at your empty threats general bozo? Nobody is afraid of america because of people like general betrayus.

  29. Giving Iran billions remember.

  30. If they use it to ship oil, then how about if they sink our ships we sink three of theirs?

  31. Why they worried about isis over there when isis can just come through our border illegally. Our country is a joke

  32. US backed Israel genocide forces

  33. Chris Hedges "The Death of Israel: How a Settler Colonial State Destroyed Itself"

  34. Iran Iran 🇮🇷 how where when 😅.

  35. i thought this was a secret military base

  36. A child carrying the corpse of a child, with no aid
    in sight. Newborn babies decaying in hospital
    ICUs. A father amputating limbs of his dying child
    without anaesthetic. Birds and dogs eating the
    flesh of slain civilians. A little girl dying of thirst
    and hunger hiding in a school. Starving families
    eating a donkey. All known international human
    rights associations including Israeli ones
    screaming for this human catastrophe to stop.
    How has the world stood by this madness for 70
    days? Afraid of reprimanding the Israeli regime?
    Not daring to stop their streaming genocide?
    Respected politicians and personalities justifying
    this barbarism in the name of self defense?
    Nothing justifies this evil. We knew it was horrid
    for 75 years, but this is beyond anything I could
    have ever imagined.

  37. While you're struggling to pay
    your rent this month, I hope you
    remember Israel gets subsidized
    housing, subsidized groceries
    free healthcare, updated
    infrastructure because the USA
    has given them over 158 billion
    dollars in US citizen tax money

  38. A litle girl named Hala was killed by an Israeli airstrike
    This was her wish list:
    1) 30 days of deliveries "food etc"
    2) Get my own tv, stay al night
    watch movies and eat whatever
    want.
    3) Go wherever I want
    4) Speak to my dad for hours
    5) Buy a-lot of new clothes.
    6) Travel & meet my dad.
    7) Convince my dad to travel to
    my uncles.
    8) Leave Gaza to Switzerland
    May you have whatever your heart desires in Paradise,
    Hala! Ameen

  39. Epstein was Mossad's best agent.
    He got allthe American politicians and elites on
    his island and network to freely do the
    reprehensible things they couldn't do in public.
    Meanwhile he was gathering data and intel on
    every one of them to later use as blackmail
    against them.
    He messed with the wrong person, who
    eventually got him killed in an American prison.
    That list has Israel, Zionism and AIPAC all over
    it.
    What Epstein did to Americans

  40. "The biggest insult to the memory of the Holocaust is
    not denying it but using it to commit genocide
    against the Palestinian people." ~ Norman
    Finkelstein