Bombing targets in Syria, Iraq and Yemen while also supporting the war in Gaza doesn’t mean you’re “displaying a high level of prudence” - it means you’re going in deep. abcnews.go.com/Politics/bide…
The last thing we should be doing at a time such as this is pouring gasoline over already existing fires. If the U.S. truly doesn’t want to provoke Iran, we have a weird way of showing it. It is incomprehensible that at this particular moment we would be taunting Iran and risking so much. 3/3
Why is the US doing this? 85 raids with more on the way is way more than a proportional response to the deaths of three soldiers in a drone attack. 2/3
Repeated retaliatory strikes against Iran-backed militias throughout the Middle East is extremely dangerous, a strategy completely at odds with the goal of containing the War in Gaza and keeping it from spreading. 1/3
The U.S. attacks in Iraq and Syria today were outrageous.
If Trump had done this, every Democrat would have been up in arms. We've got to end our codependent relationship with Democratic Presidents and tell Joe Biden that we will NOT support this, we will NOT present his militaristic agenda to the American people as our platform in 2024.
This cannot continue. It cannot. If war is the only arrow in our quiver then we are doomed. apnews.com/article/attack-mi…
On Saturday morning in Las Vegas, I will be joining the Mass Liberation Project for a community event. #GOTV#FITW
Details here: events.marianne2024.com/even…
The human reality in East Palestine…
I got an email from a lovely woman named Erica who wanted to talk to me about her personal experience of what happened there. I asked her if we could put our conversation on Zoom so others could hear about it as well.
An endless cycle of attack and retaliation in the MIddle East is not wise, reflective, mature foreign policy. It is irresponsible, militaristic, dangerous - displaying the opposite of "qualified" leadership for a sustainable 21st Century. #marianne2024
Today, at my direction, U.S. military forces struck targets in Iraq and Syria that the IRGC and affiliated militia use to attack U.S. forces.
We do not seek conflict in the Middle East or anywhere else in the world.
But to all those who seek to do us harm: We will respond.
BREAKING: President Biden warns, "If you harm an American, we will respond" after U.S. strikes Iran-backed militias in Iraq and Syria. apnews.com/article/attack-mi…