‘They Are Laughing at Us’: Cotton Says Biden’s Iran Retaliation a Joke

Senator Tom Cotton, Republican from Arkansas, criticized the Biden administration’s recent retaliatory airstrikes in Syria, characterizing them as unserious. The strikes targeted weapons and ammunition facilities in Syria, used by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps and the militia groups it supports, following orders from the Pentagon early Friday morning.

Cotton’s response to the strikes, which were in response to more than 20 U.S. service members being wounded last week by drone and rocket attacks, was blunt. He deemed the Biden administration’s approach weak and expressed concerns that it would only validate Iran’s strategy of using proxies to attack Americans.

“Retaliation against expendable proxies — especially unoccupied proxy warehouses — merely validates Iran’s strategy to use proxies to attack Americans. They are laughing at us in Tehran. Iran will continue to target Americans until President [Joe] Biden gets serious about imposing severe costs on Iran,” Cotton said in his statement, part of which he also posted to X.

The attacks resulted in 20 service members being injured in a drone strike on the al-Tanf military base in southern Syria, while an additional four were wounded in two drone attacks on the al-Asad base in western Iraq on the same day, as reported by U.S. Central Command earlier this week.

{Matzav.com}