President Joe Biden told reporters on Tuesday that he has made his decision on how he plans to retaliate against Iranian-backed terrorists in the Middle East who murdered three U.S. soldiers this week, wounding dozens more, in a suicide drone attack.
Biden said that he holds Iran, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, responsible for the deaths of the Americans “in the sense that they’re supplying the weapons to the people who did it.”
Officials told CBS News that the suicide drone attack was successful because the drone flew behind a U.S. drone that was returning to the base after a mission. Because the U.S. drone was returning, the base temporarily took parts of its air defense system offline so the drone would not be shot down. The enemy drone exploited this gap and struck the barracks while the soldiers slept.
“Officials say plans call for the U.S. to launch a…