It was a demonstration of power for the world and at the same time a performance for one’s own country. According to the message, no one challenges the United States with impunity; every attack is punished with a counterattack – at a time set by the United States itself. On Friday, shortly before the US military struck targets in Syria and Iraq in response to a drone attack on a US base in Jordan, Joe Biden attended a memorial service in the state of Delaware for the three American soldiers killed in the attack. William Rivers, 46, Kennedy Sanders, 24, and Breonna Moffett, 23 – he bowed to their coffins, they were transported posthumously. The bombers from Texas, who were supposed to bear the brunt of the counterattack 10,000 kilometers away, were long in the air. The president knew that.
US Airstrikes: The President’s Response – Politics
